By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet


#IfTheyGunnedMeDown, which picture would they use?

Jessica makes the case for free tampons — an idea that provoked an absurd sexist backlash on Twitter.

Mo’ne Davis pitches her team into the Little League World Series.

“The stakes of reproductive injustice for Texas women are terribly high, but they are not the same as the stakes faced by the Freedom Riders.”

23 female cartoonists on drawing their bodies.

Malcolm Gladwell is officially the worst.

“No duh” study of the day: There’s a ton of racism and sexism in music videos.

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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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