By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 10 years ago

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Comic Matt Bors takes on the mental condition related to Chelsea Manning’s transition. The good news is there’s treatment! (See above.) And if you are offended by the term douche-bag, read this.

Happy Go Topless Day!

An educational video game asks players to navigate all the barriers to abortion access in Texas.

How Victorian architecture aimed to segregate and isolate certain emotional displays of women.

Autostraddle has a behind-the-scenes look at the early days at Bustle. Apparently, Bryan Goldberg decided to make a site for women because he’d signed a non-compete clause making the young male demographic off-limits, and he didn’t want too many “smart” writers.

Fornicating While Latina.

Like Jos, Anna Gunn has some thoughts about how much fans hate her Breaking Bad character, Skyler White.

Dear Straight People: a poem.

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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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