By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

“After hundreds of years of proving the humanity of black people, all non-black people should have a template to make sense of our annihilation for themselves.”

A St. Louis area policeman is caught on Twitter calling Ferguson protesters thugs, lying about gun violence, excusing Brown’s death, and saying he wants to punch AG Holder

Nearly one million Texas women of childbearing age now live more than 150 miles from a licensed abortion clinic.

Ugh. Marvel releases “sexy” new Spider-Woman cover.

Mills College changes their admissions policy to not longer exclude trans women.

Here’s a helpful guide to what you should and shouldn’t do if you see a woman being harassed on Twitter.

2,000 people marched in Dublin to protest Ireland’s abortion laws.

Laverne Cox is not actually the first openly transgender person ever to get nominated for an Emmy Award.

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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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