By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

“Feminism should not be something that needs a seductive marketing campaign. The idea of women moving through the world as freely as men should sell itself.”

Jessica Valenti and Jaclyn Friedman discuss the movement towards “yes means yes” with ThinkProgress.

How social media refuses to keep women safe from online harassment.

At a big tech conference this week, men on a “Male Allies Plenary Panel” advised women in tech to fight discrimination by leaning in more. Meanwhile, the CEO of Microsoft advised the opposite: simply have “faith that the system will give you the right raise.”

Girls in country songs.

A student in Singapore pens an open letter to her principal about her terrible sex ed class.

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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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