IUD earrings

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Colorado lawmakers are wearing IUD-themed jewelry in support of a family planning program for low-income women.

“This child’s promiscuous behavior caused this situation,” said a cop of an 11-year-old rape victim

A new NARAL Pro-Choice California report documents how crisis pregnancy centers lie to patients.

“I am normalizing television.” – Shonda Rhimes

“If my rapist had a gun at school, I have no doubt I would be dead.”

Since 1995 the rate of maternal mortality rate has dropped by more than 40 percent worldwide, but it’s still a huge problem.

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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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