By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

The Washington Post summarizes the sexual assault allegations against Bill Cosby. Meanwhile, journalists like David Carr and Ta-Nehisi Coates offer apologies for looking away, and a former NBC employee talks about helping Cosby pay off multiple women and standing guard when young models were “delivered” to his hotel room.

Marissa Alexander has accepted a plea deal.

UVA faculty and students sign a letter to their president after the horrifying accounts of sexual violence on campus in that Rolling Stone article.

How a rural queer lives with depression. 

The Swedes are holding a contest for a new term for female masturbation.

Another reason we need comprehensive sex education: We can’t wait until college to teach kids affirmative consent.

Thanks to a Supreme Court decision last year that narrrowed the definition of supervisor when it comes to workplace harassment, 43 sexual harassment cases have been dismissed.

If you’re undocumented and pregnant, Obama’s new immigration order doesn’t help you.

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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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