By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

A great interview with Alexandra on what’s next in the fight for Title IX enforcement.

Tressie McMillan Cottom on Leslie Jone’s joke.

A grand unified theory of female pain.

There are more women working on indie films than big studio productions, but the data on women in movies still sucks.

Help biyuti publishing, which focuses on getting the work of trans women of color and queer/trans people of color into the world, become sustainable.

On the politics of naming Nigeria’s kidnapped girls.

An infographic on LGBTQ and HIV+ people in prison.

“You have to really get my attention if you’re male. I can’t help it. It’s part of my nature.” Word, Courtney Love, word.

Anxious masculinity kills.

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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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