Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Amy Poehler speaking truth.

A woman was punched in face for telling a man to stop groping her.

Fox News hosts defend street harassment: “Let men be men.”

In Spain, hundreds of protesters decked city hall with bras after the city’s mayor warned men to be wary of false rape accusations.

Australian model Meaghan Kausman slams Fella Swim for photoshopping her: “My body is a size 8, not a size 4. That’s my body!”

Faculty Against Rape is working to get “more faculty involved in sexual assault issues on campus, and to protect faculty members who experience retaliation for doing so.”

Let’s hope the era of the post-clinic abortion is right around the corner.

The cookstove-rape prevention myth and the problem with simple solutions.

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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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