Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Ellen and Kristen Wiig cover “Let It Go.”

Some really courageous kids are speaking out about gendered violence in the Alaskan wilderness.

A great interview with Tressie McMillan Cottom.

Newly crowned Miss America shares her past of having been in an abusive relationship.

Arizona GOPer says women on welfare should be sterilized.

The greatest Black women in superhero comics who aren’t Storm.

“The moment a man enlists in the United States armed forces, his chances of being sexually assaulted increase by a factor of ten.”

For fuck’s sake. I guess PDA is now criminalized if you’re a Black woman with a white boyfriend.

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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