By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

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Love this photo series by Nafise Motlaq of Iranian women and their dads.

Andrea Grimes reports on the women in Texas charged with endangering their “unborn child” for taking drugs while pregnant.

“Respectability was never meant to save us.”

How the news that Facebook and Apple will now cover the costs of freezing employees’ eggs is an extreme example of how we’ve privatized the work-family clash.

Fictional characters whose lives would have been vastly improved by an abortion.

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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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