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By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Five women explain why they became abortion providers.

“The phone rang. It was my college rapist.” 

The new comedy web series Very Special Episodes mocks politically correct attempts to represent disability.

The 49ers’ Bruce Miller has been arrested on domestic violence charges.

File this under “no shit”: A new study finds that when transgender young people are allowed to fully identify with their gender and take steps toward transition, their depression and anxiety improves.

Latina residents of the Rio Grande Valley testified about how Texas is violating their human rights.

Vulture profiles the women of Broad City.

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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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