By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Here’s video of an NYPD officer throwing a six-months pregnant woman to the ground. (Trigger warning)

Post by El Grito De Sunset Park.

A wonderful piece by Brittney Cooper: “The future of feminism can not be left to the hands of white women.”

Denver high school students stage a walkout to protest a school board proposal to censor what they’re taught in history class to ensure that it promotes “citizenship, patriotism, essentials and benefits of the free-market system, respect for authority and respect for individual rights” and doesn’t “encourage or condone civil disorder, social strike or disregard of the law.”

Men who join fraternities are three times more likely to rape than other college men.

Meghan Daum’s moving New Yorker essay on deciding not to have kids.

Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone is speak out against sexism in Indian media.

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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