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The Daily Show’s Kirsten Schaal munches on a bowl full of birth control pills and explains the GOP’s new outreach strategy to female voters.

An affirmative consent bill was introduced in New Hampshire.

White men have historically relied on government to give them their power.

We know how to end homelessness: “One thing that everyone who’s homeless needs is a home.”

A horrifying tale of hazing on a high school football team in New Jersey.

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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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