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Historically accurate Disney princesses.

Hannah Gioris has an excellent piece about why women of color don’t report their sexual assaults to a racist criminal justice system — and shouldn’t have to.

Aisha Moodie-Mills is becoming the first woman and first person of color to lead the major LGBT organization The Victory Fund.

Why aren’t we all living in communes?

AAUW releases a new report on the gender gap in engineering and computing, while new research identifies five biases that are pushing women of different races out of STEM fields.

The financial costs of a miscarriage.

Despite making up more than half the health care workforce, women represent only a fifth of executives and board members at large health care companies.

We need more abortion providers — and they don’t need to be physicians.

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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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