By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Indian movie star Ranveer Singh stars in a new Durex ad campaign.

About 2,000 protestors shut down McDonald’s corporate headquarters today.

The National Review attributes the rising number of rapes reported on college campuses to more women “crying rape.”

Louisiana passed a bill that could shut down four of the state’s five abortion clinics.

Five upcoming women-led video games worth getting excited about.

Richard Scudamore, the chief executive of England’s Premier League, is facing very little fallout from his leaked sexist emails.

Elly Blue talks women and biking at Gizmodo.

The number of US women calling themselves feminists increased from 50 percent in 2006 to 68 percent in 2012.

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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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