By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

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Vintage LOLz.

What men can do to help achieve women’s economic equality.

Rebecca Traister on Beyonce: “That this is what a woman looks like when she defines herself as a feminist in 2014 tells us that its steadily-published obituaries to the contrary, the women’s movement is not only thriving, but expanding.”

A new fellowship prepares people of color for coding careers.

Matt Damon does the ice bucket challenge with toilet water to highlight the global need for clean water.

The top 5 most hardcore stunts pulled by the suffragettes.

On Sophia Vergara’s turn at the Emmy’s: “A celebration of industry diversity shouldn’t feature a Latina woman spun around like a piece of meat on a vertical spit.”

Kate Harding on why that roofie-detecting nail polish won’t prevent rape.

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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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