By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet


First moon parties should definitely be a thing.

Family cap laws, based on a racist stereotype of unfit black mothers, do nothing but punish the poor for being poor.

Meet Amanda Blackhorse, the Navajo Nation member who led the legal fight to revoke the Washington Redskins’ trademark.

Why women need unions.

Girls are labeled sluts if they sext, prudes if they don’t.

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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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