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Medical students across the country staged #blacklivesmatter “die-ins” today. Above, a photo from the one at Harvard.

There are only bad victims

Shocker of shockers: The newly unveiled budget deal includes cuts that would hurt the most vulnerable of us, while Wall Street, the companies killing the earth, and the rich people who buy our elections do ok.

19 science-fiction and fantasy novels by women of color you should read.

Lena Dunham speaks out about backlash she’s received for telling her story of being sexually assaulted in her memoir: “There is no right way to survive rape and there is no right way to be a victim.” And the whole “scandal” shows how deeply invested the conservative media is in silencing rape survivors.

“There were a couple of white dudes trying to take the [megaphone] from one our leaders.” Of course there were.

“The voice is your head that’s asking how dare you is the voice produced by an environment that’s going to be challenged by your daring. The risk of undervaluing what you have to offer, especially for women of color, is so much greater than the risk of overvaluing it.” – Ayesha Siddiqi

Way too many ’80s movies treat rape as a punchline.

An investigation in five cities finds that body cams mostly help cops.

 

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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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