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Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Roe is not a reality for all.

“I’m going to need your help to find a way out of this definitional problem with rape.” – Senator Lindsey Graham to anti-choice activists 

Women share their abortion stories at The Guardian.

Feministing alum Miriam Perez on six key differences between the reproductive justice and reproductive rights movements.

Jesus fucking christ. In the US, 80 percent of 10-year-old girls have been on a diet.

The first ever alternity wear for pregnant masculine, transgender, and queer individuals.

Yesterday was the 5th anniversary of the Citizens United decision. RIP democracy.

Melissa on horrible proposed obesity guidelines that say doctors should “treat the weight first” — in other words, deny fat people medical care unless they lose weight first.

Stickin’ it to the man by stickin’ it to yourself.

“I am a woman. I am a feminist. And it took me 12 years to admit that someone I loved was a sexual predator.”

It never ends.

Brittney Cooper on Selma critics and the white gaze.

Rasmea Odeh’s “work calls us to imagine a radical feminist politics where the struggle to end state violence and intimate partner violence happens together.”

“The seas are rising and so are we.”

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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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