Coretta Scott King, second from right, wife of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., prepares to board a Pan Am Clipper, Dec. 5, 1964, at Kennedy Airport in New York, en route to London to meet Dr. King, who was to receive a Nobel Peace Prize on Dec. 10. With Mrs. King are Dr. King's parents, Martin Luther King, Sr. and Alberta Williams King, and at right is Christine Farris, Dr. King's sister. (AP Photo)
By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

The forgotten women of Black History Month.

Utah state Representative Brian Greene isn’t sure that having sex with an unconscious person should always count as rape.

#TheresNoPerfectVictim

“The U.S. government has quietly created a second-class federal prison system specifically for immigrants.”

Man receives job rejection email from a woman; throws a fit about “imperious little girls.”

Half of all Millennials believe that gender exists on a spectrum, and shouldn’t be limited to the categories of male and female, according to a Fusion poll.

The “Hey Queer Photo Project” highlights dapper queer Asian style.

“We can forget that every pregnancy is so risky that, if it weren’t a pregnancy but a procedure, we would have to sign a thick pile of consent forms and liability waivers to undertake it.”

Survey reveals there are only 17 black female professors in the entire Uk university system.

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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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