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Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Just your semi-regular reminder than anti-choicers actually do believe that women should just not have sex if they don’t want to risk forced childbirth.

Younger women often delay seeking treatment for heart attacks in part out of fears of being seen as “hysterical” hypochondriacs.

Mo’Nique talks about being a black woman in Hollywood.

The director of the U.S. State Department’s counterterrorism program has been arrested for allegedly soliciting sex with a minor.

Consider donating to Black and Pink’s commissary fund for LGBTQ people in prison.

According to the second annual Hollywood Diversity Report, audiences prefer TV and movies with casts that actually include people of color. This is shocking to no one except Hollywood execs.

How To Not Be Raped, according to the manual of the most widely offered women’s self-defense program in the country.

“If I ramp up my cortisol levels to express my anger and hurt at white women for failing once again to get it, is that not a tax and toll on my health that I pay either in future medical bills or in years unlived?” – Brittney Cooper

Maternity care at U.S. hospitals has improved but continues to vary widely among hospitals.

In the aftermath of the murder of Taja Gabrielle de Jesus in San Francisco, Taja’s Coalition is fighting for safe, affordable, accessible housing and reentry programs for trans people and against the local sheriff’s plans for a new jail.

 Header image credit: Matt Petit

St. Paul, MN

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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