By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 10 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams on the Michael Dunn verdict.

Working single mothers are disproportionately likely to be poor.

A Houston abortion clinic became the first forced to close thanks the new Texas law requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.

It’s time to end the long history of feminism failing transgender women.

The NYT‘s public editor says the paper was wrong to air an anti-choice doctor’s inaccurate claims about emergency contraception.

It’s still only women pols who get judged on their family life.

Iran’s queen of pop promotes gay rights in her new music video.

Chimamanda Adichie on Nigeria’s anti-gay law.

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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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