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By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Three Muslim students were shot and killed by a white man near the University of North Carolina — supposedly over a “parking dispute.”

Farewell, Jon Stewart.

Doulas fight for more insurance reimbursements. 

Taking on the disapproval of “women who use abortion as birth control.”

Laverne Cox is going to co-star in a new CBS legal drama.

For once, an NYPD cop was indicted in the shooting death of an unarmed Black man.

Syreeta’s civil rights playlist.

When taking anxiety medication is a revolutionary act.

While Black boys were suspended three times more than white boys, Black girls were suspended six times more than white girls.

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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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