By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

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Mourners arrived at Michael Brown’s funeral today with their hands up. Meanwhile, students staged a #HandsUpWalkOut on their campuses, and The New York Times is the worst.

A new study finds hospitals in Black neighborhoods are less likely to encourage breastfeeding.

California says health insurance companies cannot refuse to cover the cost of abortions.

The lies conservatives tell about Black women and reproductive health.

Adult women are now the largest video-game-playing demographic in the US.

The Obama administration has issued a new tweak to provide contraceptive access to women whose employers object to their insurance plans covering birth control.

An ex-cop who sexually assaulted a woman with his gun gets to own a gun again.

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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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