By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 10 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Riley has some thoughts on The Avengers and the Black Widow marketing strategy.

Who can afford to be a feminist?

Teen pregnancy rates reached a historic low last year.

A “guy’s guy” on his “gender creative” son.

Edwidge Danticat on immigration reform, returning to Haiti in her new book, and why Wikipedia is still micro-categorizing women writers.

“Albuquerque has become the latest flash point in the abortion wars.”

The San Francisco Women’s Film Festival is now accepting submissions.

If only the US were as good on family planning as Iran.

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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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