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By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

I don’t know about you, but I needed this video of a dancing little girl today. 

“I am a transgender woman and the government is denying my civil rights.” – Chelsea Manning

How future survivors will be hurt by the fallout of the Rolling Stone disaster.

“I believe survivors. My belief isn’t emotionally biased; it’s statistically sound.” – Annie E. Clark

Chloe and Zerlina were on Melissa Harris-Perry discussing the Rolling Stone article, as well as the rape allegations against Jameis Winston.

“Watching The Newsroom always feels like a nightmare.” Meanwhile, Aaron Sorkin continues to demonstrate that he only likes opinionated women when they’re his characters on The West Wing.

Anu Bhagwati on how President Obama is ignoring military sexual assault.

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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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