By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 10 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Remember that Tennessee bill that will criminalize pregnancy? Gov. Bill Haslam has signed it into law.

Amy Poheler and Paul Rudd’s new rom com parody looks great.

On the invisible privilege of gaming while male.

You can now read two never-before-published Octavia Butler stories!

Laverne Cox is executive producing a documentary on trans youth for MTV And Logo.

An interview with a historian of American women’s fashion.

A pastor challenging Lindsey Graham in the South Carolina GOP Senate primary thinks most divorces are caused when wives love their children more than their husbands.

How did Amal Alamuddin snag George Clooney?

Kelly Shibari becomes the first plus-size model featured in Penthouse Forum.

The Department of Education issues a new guidance explicitly clarifying that Title IX prohibits discrimination against transgender students.

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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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