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By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Read Janet Mock on visibility in the wake of the recent murders of several trans women.

Inside the modeling industry’s overworked, underpaid, unprotected labor force. 

“If these young, hot little girls on campus have a firearm, I wonder how many men will want to assault them.” Ummm, nope.

Predictions on what white people will Columbus next.

Jane Fonda on activism: “The challenge is to stay angry and at the same time not burn yourself out or get an ulcer.” And on aging: “People always say, Oh my god, how do you stay looking so blah blah blah. I’ve had plastic surgery. I’ve talked about that. That doesn’t matter.”

Rand Paul is the worst.

Women make up two thirds of the student body at journalism schools, but get just over one third of bylines or on-camera appearances in the working journalism world.

Dr. Pauli Murray, the black, queer, feminist legal scholar you’ve likely never heard of.

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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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