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Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

A city in India has elected the nation’s first transgender mayor.

From an interview with Selma director Ava Duvernay: “Is the ‘boys club’ [of Hollywood] shifting at all? “[Laughs] No, I don’t think that it’s shifting.” 

Eliminating the rape kit backlog is starting to pay off.

#BlackBrunch protesters invade predominantly white spaces to protest police brutality.

A trans woman is suing Saks Fifth Avenue over discrimination.

“Femicides are a pandemic in Mexico,” with six women being murdered each day.

“Make our humanity a priority on par with your own.”

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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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