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By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Screen Shot 2015-03-03 at 5.11.59 PMAccording to a new Planned Parenthood report, 4.1 million women are at risk of losing affordable health insurance as a result of a case against Obamacare that the Supreme Court will hear tomorrow.

On writing, women, and mental illness. 

What is blue????

“A decent girl won’t roam around at nine o’clock at night. A girl is far more responsible for rape than a boy,” says one of the men convicted in the brutal Delhi gang rape.

Why is it against the code of masculinity to hit “below the belt”?

El Salvador must free the members of “Las 17” who remain imprisoned for suffering miscarriages.

Ann on what makes a “badass.”

A Buzzfeed discussion on the lessons of Sheila Rowbotham’s 1970s socialist feminism.

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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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