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Duke has made a bunch of old issues of 1980s lesbian porn magazine On Our Backs available online. (h/t Deviates, Inc.)

Jessica Luther has some tips for sports journalists covering sexual assault cases.

Low-income Black and Latino Americans face highest risk of chemical spills.

Irin Carmon explores Monica Lewinsky’s claim that feminists betrayed her.

So-called “opt-out moms” make up just 1 percent of the country’s mothers with kids under the age of 18.

A critique of #bringbackourgirls.

An interview with Kate Fagan about being gay in women’s sports.

“Putting yourself in a woman’s shoes does not make you less of a man. It makes you more of a person.”

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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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