Angelina Jolie
By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

After writing about her double mastectomy a couple years ago, Angelina Jolie opens up about her decision to remove her ovaries and fallopian tubes.

Meet the Latina owner of the first LGBTQ gym in the US. 

Every argument about Buffy on the Internet ever. So true.

Everyone should have affordable access to IUDs (and all other forms of birth control) — not just low-income single mothers out of a concern for how it affects “us as taxpayers.”

“Womanized,” a poem by Alissa Quart.

Native American women still don’t have access to OTC emergency contraception.

Inmates at America’s oldest women’s prison are writing a history of it — and exploding the myth of its benevolent founders.

Header image credit: Luke Macgregor/Reuters

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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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