Toni Morrison
By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Toni Morrison is releasing a new novel this spring!

The NYT Magazine looks at the sexual assault crisis in the military.

As she nears age 100, activist Grace Lee Boggs is in hospice care — and needs our donations to help pay for it. 

“I have a dream…that one day I’ll see as much outrage over professional football players raising their hands against a woman or child in anger as I’ve seen over football players raising their hands in solidarity with a community demanding justice.”- Pamela Merritt

Willie Murphy is a 77-year-old woman who can lift more than twice her weight.

“To say that black people have made progress would be to say they deserve what happened to them before.” – Chris Rock

A profile of Americans United for Life, aka the ALEC of the anti-choice movement, that’s been behind many of the state abortion restrictions in recent years.

Feminist Frequency is out with a new series on “Playing with Privilege” on the invisible benefits of gaming while male.

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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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