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By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

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Protesters stage a “die-in” outside the Cavaliers vs. Nets at the Barclays Center.

“I don’t need your permission to name what was done to me. I was sexually assaulted. And I am a victim.”  – Megan Carpentier

Just so much horror and disgrace in the new CIA torture report. 

The New York City Council passed legislation that allows trans New Yorkers to change their gender on their birth certificate without requirements for surgery or hormone therapy.

“Let’s just talk about Jackie, and whether her story is true – which it simply cannot be – because if it isn’t, we can forget everything else.”

The Department of Justice released new guidance on profiling in law enforcement.

There’s more gendered toy advertising now than there was 50 years ago.

National fraternity and sorority leaders are pushing for UVA to reinstate the Greek system — and also lobbying Congress on campus sexual assault policy.

On the huge gender gap in economics.

 

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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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