By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

A new video from the ACLU’s Stand Together project, which aims to fight back against the “coordinated state-by-state assault” on reproductive health care access that we know all too well.

In a win for police brutality, Occupy protester Cecily McMillan was found guilty.

Monica Lewinski is back in the public sphere and hoping to “take back my narrative and give a purpose to my past. ”

The US is one of just eight countries where maternal death rates have increased in the last decade.

Kathryn Joyce investigates sexual abuse cover-ups in Protestant churches.

Survivors are fighting the ban on abortion coverage for people who are raped in the Peace Corps.

Chimamanda Adichie responds to the missing girls in Nigeria with a stirring call for meaningful presidential leadership.

National Center for Transgender Equality speaks out against that awful “live tweeting a prostitution sting” business.

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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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