By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Connie Britton and Kirstin Gillibrand

Um, how did I not know that Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Connie Britton were roommates in the ’80s?

The gender gap in biking

Our own Katherine Cross was in this months’s Bitch Magazine talking sex and sexuality in the world of erotic roleplaying.

VICE News investigated the misleading practices used by crisis pregnancy centers.

Jesus. There was a bomb threat targeted at Anita Sarkeesian at last March’s Game Developers Choice Awards.

One of Cassandra Voss’s life goals was to make her Fox News-watching conservative dad into “a hard-core feminist.” After she unexpectedly died, he endowed a gender studies center in her name.

The most feminist moments in sci-fi history.

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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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