Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Some very ’90s advice on how to have cybersex on the internet.

A new study finds that men are more attracted to women who listen to them.

Rolling Stone profiles CeCe McDonald.

Alexandra and Elizabeth Deustch on why we need a new ERA.

“I won’t presume to speak for all women of color so I will speak for myself: I don’t care about that. I don’t want your pity, and I can’t use your guilt. I don’t want my white female colleagues to “check” their privilege. I want them to use it—their networks, their assets, their relationships—to form a united front with women of color, and to help improve things for all of us.”

An ESPN short film on Brittney Griner.

Katherine on the “male gamer terror dream” that leaves them permanently afraid someone will take their games away.

Meet Carolina, a mother who brought her daughters 1,500 miles to the US so they wouldn’t be raped.

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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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