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By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

10 badass Sikh women throughout history.

A Pennsylvania State University frat was suspended after police discovered that members were using Facebook to post nude photos of unconscious women. 

Women of color make up just 0.4 percent of CEOs at S&P 500 companies.

Mo’Ne Davis is launching her own sneaker line that will benefit an organization working to end child poverty.

Merritt Kopas on how siege mode can hurt our politics.

Well, this is something, I suppose. But remember: “Even though America is overall becoming more tolerant of other views, that doesn’t necessarily mean other kinds of inequality are disappearing.”

Header image: Ms. Magazine

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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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