By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

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7 different Buffy-inspired Halloween costumes!

Pennsylvania parents are fighting to prevent fracking near their childrens’ school.

Jessica Mason Pieklo explains why we shouldn’t get too excited about yesterday’s Supreme Court order protecting abortion access in Texas.

As the US women’s national soccer team begins its journey to the World Cup, Jessica Luther explains why some of the world’s players have filed a gender discrimination suit against FIFA for making them play on artificial turf. (Turf really is the worst.)

“Women lean Democratic. Single women lean strongly Democratic. And single women who are not white lean overwhelmingly Democratic.”

Hollaback! and the Thomson Reuters Foundation released the first ever global legal resource on street harassment.

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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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