Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Janelle Monae stopped by Sesame Street.

If you live in Minnesota and Washington, you can now get birth control and STD counseling online through Planned Parenthood.

Misty Copeland on being Black in ballet.

Pro-tip for Greg Abbott: If you want us to take your “women’s health plan” seriously, don’t unveil it during a press conference surrounded by a bunch of dudes. Better yet, stop refusing Medicaid expansion and fighting to close Texas’s abortion clinics.

On images of masculinity in Pixar movies.

The Seattle City Council passed a resolution calling for an end to all federal bans on public coverage of abortion.

“Personally, now that I have daughters, I don’t think anyone should do bad things to women, especially the ones who are my daughters.”

Oscar Pistorius has been cleared of premeditated murder.

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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