By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 11 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

handsome man Omar Borkan Al Gala

Here are a bunch of photos of a man who was supposedly deported from Saudi Arabia for being too handsome. You’re welcome.

The Justice Department has issued new guidelines for medical exams for sexual assault survivors.

WTF? It seems Wikipedia editors are gradually moving women from the American Novelists category to the American Women Novelists subcategory.

What’s it like when your sexual assault is fictionalized in a Law & Order SVU episode?

The feminist argument for letting Futurama die a somewhat respectable death.

I really hope someday this dude grows up and is ashamed of himself.

St. Paul, MN

Maya Dusenbery is executive director in charge of editorial at Feministing. She is the author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick (HarperOne, March 2018). She has been a fellow at Mother Jones magazine and a columnist at Pacific Standard magazine. Her work has appeared in publications like Cosmopolitan.com, TheAtlantic.com, Bitch Magazine, as well as the anthology The Feminist Utopia Project. Before become a full-time journalist, she worked at the National Institute for Reproductive Health. A Minnesota native, she received her B.A. from Carleton College in 2008. After living in Brooklyn, Oakland, and Atlanta, she is currently based in the Twin Cities.

Maya Dusenbery is an executive director of Feministing and author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm on sexism in medicine.

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