By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 10 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

photos of young Hillary Clinton

Photos of Hillz — from long before she was texting.

A new video from Planned Parenthood breaks down what’s at high stake in the contraception coverage cases SCOTUS is hearing next week.

Why women rightly fear failure.

Georgia becomes the 22nd state to ban abortion coverage in their health insurance exchanges — and why this means we can never escape an abortion fight.

Your regular reminder that progressives can be unbelievably sexist too.

Texas GOP explanations for the pay gap: Women are busy and men are better negotiators.

Today in horrifying: A Brazilian soccer star who ordered the murder of his ex-girlfriend will be let out of prison to train and play games with his league team, because apparently that’s a thing that’s allowed.

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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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