"Are you a slut?" flowchart
By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

“Until women are safe in the home, none of us will be safe outside the home.”

Meet the real people whose lives are impacted by restrictions on later abortions.

Are you a slut? 

On sexual assault within Asian-American communities.

What Marshawn Lynch and Richard Sherman teach us about respectability and Black masculinity.

The prospect of the anti-vaccine movement becoming more mainstream is downright terrifying.

“Sulkowciz is not a perfect victim and she shouldn’t have to be, because there is no such thing.”

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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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