Pakistani school children
By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai reacts to the horrific Taliban attack on school children in Pakistan: “I, along with millions of others around the world, mourn these children, my brothers and sisters — but we will never be defeated.”

“Some of us on the LGBT spectrum are Black. Our lives matter too.”

Camille Cosby says her husband is the real victim here. 

A fascinating history of the religious leaders who fought for legal abortion before Roe v. Wade.

The Caravan of Central American Mothers Searching for their Disappeared Children calls for unity among the movements of Mesoamerica.

A federal appeals court has overturned a ruling that Massachusetts must provide a trans prison inmate’s gender reassignment surgery.

A good long-read from Jessica Luther on one woman’s journey to report a rape by a wrestler at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

The Vatican releases its investigation on those pesky American nuns.

“I was gang raped at a UVA frat 30 years ago, and no one did anything.”

Header image credit: Mohammad Sajjad/Associated Press

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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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