By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Jon Stewart destroys the conservative response to Michael Brown’s death.

LGBT women are poorer and less healthy than other Americans.

The life of a woman lumberjack.

Personhood advocates in Colorado are trying yet again to get voters to accept the measure — this time using a new tack.

Women on scales in stock photos.

The NRA launches a sexist attack against the leader of Moms Demand Action.

The true cost of birth control.

A new report by the Girl Scouts Research Institute shows that South is the worst region of the United States to raise girls.

UPS workers say “Hands up, don’t ship.”

St. Paul, MN

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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