Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

 

“We are made to feel that if we admit a problem, we are then branded with it—that it is a reflection upon us.”

A list of people doing interesting things in the media.

Paulette Brown is the first Black woman to lead the American Bar Association.

Vogue becomes the latest place to “discover” big booties.

Ummm, fuck FCKH8.com.

A new report finds globally domestic violence kills more people than wars.

GoFundMe allows people to raise money for convicted murders. But an abortion? That’s one step too far.

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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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