By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

LEGO is coming out with a female scientist minifigure set.

Where it went wrong with sex on Game of Thrones.

How about a transgender category in the 2020 census?

Fox News says girls are “more likely to have hateful little minds.”

The women who remixed Chris Brown’s “Loyal” before a man called it out as sexist.

Remember that school that photoshopped female student’s yearbook photos? They let male students appear shirtless.

13 comics that smash the patriarchy.

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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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