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By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

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The US and China agreed on a big climate change deal, which is “a badly needed piece of good news,” though it still falls “miserably short of what science, justice and equity demand.” 

Old Navy is charging plus size women more for clothing items while not charging larger men any extra money.

Missouri abortion providers are scrambling to handle the state’s new 72-hour waiting period.

After the midterm ballot initiative, the Republican-dominated Tennessee legislature is wasting no time in moving forward with anti-choice laws as soon as possible.

Rachel Maddow trolls Arizona Tea Partiers threatening to censor biology textbooks.

“Public discussion of abortion has come to inexorably privilege fetal life over female life.”

TIME would like to ban the word “feminist.”

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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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