By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 10 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

“I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay.” Jason Collins comes out.

A 22-year-old woman in El Salvador may die because she can’t get a life-saving abortion. More on that tomorrow.

Capitalism, not feminism, killed home cooking–and fixing our broken food system is gonna take a lot more than some privileged women embracing “new domesticity.”

Happy birthday to Maya Deren.

Live Action released a video of their latest “undercover sting” against abortion providers that doesn’t actually show anything.

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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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