By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Tweet of the day from Olivia Wilde.

Today, Tona Brown is becoming the first transgender African-American woman to play Carnegie Hall for their first ever LGBT Pride Event.

Grand Central Station is the epicenter of the subway sleaze.

If Google wants to get girls into coding, it should think beyond pink and purple.

Massive backlash erupts in Japan after male lawmakers yelled sexist taunts at a female colleague.

Women 50 and over who leave the work force permanently to care for a parent lose nearly $325,000 in wages and benefits.

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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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