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Women in the US still spend three times as much time on housework as men do. “Men…just do the damn dishes.”

Meet NYC’s first and only trans woman firefighter.

“Plastic surgery is fake. So is the Hollywood fantasy where women over 40 just don’t exist.”

The New Yorker profiles the president of the anti-choice group the Susan B. Anthony List.

7 female CEOs who inspire us all to be cogs in the capitalist machine.

On the Community site, Hanalei reflects on Jennifer Laude, a trans woman in the Philippines murdered by a US Marine. The Marine has now been detained at the Philippine military headquarters.

Black female journalist Rebecca Carroll on deciding to quit mainstream journalism.

Reminder if you’re sharing that viral “F-Bombs for Feminism” video: FCKH8 is a t-shirt company “using girls as a means to a commercial end.”

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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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