disability rights activists and police outside White House
By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

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More than 50 disability rights activists were arrested while protesting outside the White House. “I’d rather go to jail than DIE in a nursing home.”

A new report reveals how girls of color are doubly disadvantaged when it comes to opportunities to play sports in high school. 

Bangladeshis protest after mass sexual assaults during the recent Bengali New Year celebrations.

Lonnie Franklin Jr. may have killed more than 100 Black women in LA since 1985. A new documentary explores how this could have happened.

A chart that clearly shows the outrageous economic inequality in the US.

Calling all writers of color…

Check out the projects created during the IGNITE International Girls Hackathon.

Media report on unconstitutional 20-week abortion bans, fail to mention they’re unconstitutional.

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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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