1 in 3 stickers in cubicles
By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

A Chicago police officer was somehow found not guilty after fatally shooting an unarmed Black woman.

Meryl Streep is funding a writers’ lab for women screenwriters over age 40. 

Last week, activists on 75 college campuses shared abortion stories in a “pop-up” sticker project in collaboration with the 1 in 3 campaign.

Despite the no-copay contraception mandate under Obamacare, insurance companies aren’t consistently covering many birth control methods.

Chloe on the trauma of writing about trauma.

There is almost no research on the health effects of the cumulative use of tampons over a lifetime.

The Republican plan to offer tax breaks for child care is a bad idea.

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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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