anita hill and kerry washington
By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Kerry Washington is going to play Anita Hill in a new HBO film!

“How finding a fat YA heroine changed my life.”

On navigating misogynistic art as a feminist.

A new report on the financial instability faced by LGBT women.

“Fuck us if we’re quiet, fuck us harder if we try to speak.”

Which gets your vote for the most ridiculous scapegoat for those Oklahoma frat guys’ racist video: Rap music or the gays?

A Black bisexual manifesto.

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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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