By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

A former Marine catalogues the military equipment being used by Ferguson police.

Cop points rifle at Ferguson protestors, shouting “I will fucking kill you.”

“I am a 15-year-old immigrant who came to America because gangs murdered my family. All I want to do is stay and learn.”

Lesbians orgasm more often during sex than straight women.

Saluting the underappreciated female video game pioneers.

A blogger has started a boycott of Target over their lack of plus-size options.

A Black former NFL referee requested not to work games for the Washington Redskins due to the racism of their name.

Ebola is killing far more women than men, because women are usually caregivers.

The rate of women murdered by men in South Carolina is more than double the national average.

 

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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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