Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Breaking my policy of not handing out too many cookies to male feminists, because Benedict Cumberbatch.

Badass suffragette exploits.

Is your Halloween costume racist? A helpful flowchart.

A North Dakota Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday made medical abortion effectively illegal in the state.

Some good responses to that viral street harassment video that makes it seem like only men of color catcall, plus a statement from Hollaback!

Apparently, it’s super expensive to “dress to get out of the friend zone.

Amy Poehler did a Reddit AMAA.

How much does masculine culture depend on defining itself against femininity?

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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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