Afghan women at funeral
By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Afghan women’s rights activists carried the coffin of Farkhunda, a woman beaten to death by a mob after being falsely accused of burning a copy of the Koran.

Great piece from Andrea Grimes on self-induced abortion by misoprostol in Texas. 

Ted Cruz must not be trying for the women’s vote.

Columbia University’s journalism school will soon publish their review into Rolling Stone‘s article on rape at UVA.

“Allowing children to live in poverty is a policy choice, not the inevitable result of a given family structure.”

A federal judge struck down a Wisconsin law that requires physicians who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.

On aging as a woman in the United States.

Header image credit: Associated Press

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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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