Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Once again, Congress delayed authorizing funding to address the rape kit backlog.

Exploring the factors behind the racial gap in the abortion rate in the US.

The mother who is serving a 9-to-18-month sentence for helping her daughter get an abortion speaks to the NYT Magazine.

Wesleyan orders fraternities to become co-ed within three years.

John Oliver takes on Miss America.

Suicide is the leading cause of death among teenage girls worldwide.

A photo series on giving birth around the world.

Melissa Harris-Perry on that terrible Times piece on Shonda Rhimes and Angry White Men.

An interactive map shows the increase in state restrictions on insurance coverage of abortion.

YouTube prankster thinks groping women on the street is a hiiiiiilarious prank.

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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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