By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

In the latest injustice for Jane Doe, she’s been moved into a home for delinquent boys.

The first woman was arrested under Tennessee’s new law criminalizing drug use during pregnancy.

EBONY’s EndingRape4Ever series will explore rape culture in the African American community.

The Department of Education granted a Quaker college a religious exemption to Title IX to so that the school can discriminate against a transgender student.

A NYT exposé on the abuse of mentally ill inmates at New York City’s Rikers Island prison.

South African writer and anti-apartheid activist Nadine Gordimer has died.

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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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