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By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

The founder of the Notorious R.B.G. blog discusses what makes Ruth Bader Ginsburg so awesome in this video from the Jewish Daily Forward. 

“At no point in her pregnancy should a woman lose her civil and human rights.”

A trans woman targeted in a brutal Bushwick, Brooklyn assault offers forgiveness to her attackers.

A lawyer requested a delay in a corruption retrial due to her high-risk pregnancy but the US attorney’s office has fought the delay.

Twelve countries denounced the criminalization of abortion in El Salvador.

We’ve deported thousands of child migrants who weren’t even given lawyers.

If Asian women hit on white guys the way white guys hit on Asian women.

We’re getting a Polynesian Disney princess.

St. Paul, MN

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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