Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Tennessee Republicans are “fed up with the perversion” of the University of Tennessee’s annual  Sex Week.

Women outnumber men for the first time in intro to computer science class at UC Berkeley.

Why mainstream critics fail writers of color.

Good news: A California initiative to repeal the law protecting trans students’ equal access in schools has failed to qualify for the ballot.

More good news: SCOTUS agrees that Arizona really does not have the right to bar Planned Parenthood from the state’s Medicaid program.

Funding to help low-income families afford child care last year fell to the lowest level since 2002.

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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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