By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

The Justice Department says that discrimination against trans people is covered under the sex discrimination prohibition in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

On the sexism of self-tracking apps.

A round-up of the anti-choice state bills that have already been pre-filed for consideration in 2015. 

WTF, Leigh Anne Tuohy??

The next waves of feminism. Cannot wait for the eighth wave to arrive.

When Google increased their paid maternity leave to 18 weeks, the rate at which new mothers left fell by 50 percent.

On the devastating effect of cuts to Title X family planning clinics.

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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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