By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 10 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

NYT Review of Books Vida count chart

 

This year’s VIDA count of the gender gap in U.S. literary magazines is out. Check back here tomorrow for an analysis of the data.

Mary Beard on women and speech in the public sphere.

Jason Collins, who came out last spring, has signed with the Brooklyn Nets, making him the first openly gay active player in the NBA.

Behind the scenes of Barneys’ campaign featuring 17 trans* models.

Farewell and good riddance, Alec Baldwin and Piers Morgan.

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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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