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Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

According to a new investigative report by Fusion, some 75 transgender immigrants are locked up in immigration detention on any given day. Trans women are usually housed with men and face conditions that “are often humiliating, dangerous, and even deadly.” Trans detainees account for 20 percent of confirmed cases of sexual abuse in detention facilities.

1 in 30 children in the US is now homeless — a record high.

Nevada high school students are fighting for their right to comprehensive sex education.

The Missouri governor has declared a state of emergency in Ferguson, which means bringing in the National Guard.

The male co-host of an Australian TV program wore the same suit on-air for a year to show that no one would notice, while people regularly criticized the outfits worn by his female co-host.

Cleveland police officers killed a black woman suffering from bipolar disorder in front her family.

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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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