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By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

The Justice Department says Georgia’s treatment of trans inmates “constitutes cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment.”

Outlander is back and I’m so excited. 

“For women’s soccer there is certainly a #scoretosettle. But the biggest battles may lie off the field.”

Over the last four years, access to abortion care has been shrinking all across the United States. In the South, the situation has become particularly dire.

Federal funding for a program that has kept HIV-positive women engaged in medical care is in danger of being cut.

Reminder: crisis pregnancy centers are deliberately misleading and deceitful.

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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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