By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 10 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

the world's only girl hunting with a golden eagle

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Ummm, amazing.

“There is a nearly 1,200-mile-wide desert of abortion providers stretching from the western boarder of Idaho to the eastern boarders of North and South Dakota.”

Occupy protestor Cecily McMillan is facing seven years in prison after a cop violently grabbed her breast and she elbowed back.

On the confidence gap.

Phyllis Schlafly warns that if we close the pay gap, women would no longer be able to find husbands that earn more than them, and that would be the worst!

St. Paul, MN

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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