By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 11 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Meet the Bangladeshi factory workers fighting for their rights this May Day.

Alexandra was on Al Jazeera and KCRW talking about the new White House report on campus rape. And Twe was on Democracy Now!

Seattle now has the highest minimum wage in the nation.

On Arianna Huffington’s Thrive movement.

Reports of sexual assaults in the military rose 50 percent since the Pentagon began a campaign to get more victims to come forward.

Eleanor Roosevelt as a disc jockey for WNYC.

The lack of bureaucracy in tech start-ups might be contributing to their lack of diversity.

How we lost 200 Black girls in 12 days.

Junot Diaz on the unbearable whiteness of MFA programs.

Consider donating to this Indiegogo campaign to start the first shelter for trans* women in the Bay Area.

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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