Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Sleater-Kinney is back!

Ruth Bader Ginsburg has a “quite large supply” of Notorious RBG t-shirts.

New Mexico’s new parental leave law for high school students helps teen moms stay in school.

Serena Williams responds to the Russian Tennis Federation president’s “sexist, racist and bullying” comments about her and sister Venus.

Students at Fordham University are fighting for access to contraception on campus.

Young attorney Tia Canlas is taking a new approach to domestice violence by bringing civil suits against abusers, not just criminal ones.

An NBA player kissed a sideline reporter trying to interview him, and the sports media doesn’t seem to think that’s inappropriate.

On crisis pregnancy centers, aka “one of the most manipulative arms of the anti-choice movement.”

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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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