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By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Happy Earth Day. The Feminist Wire is running a forum on climate change and feminist environmentalism this month.

Are we only willing to trust that women are raped when it’s a man telling us? 

Awful article by Kathryn Joyce on coerced adoption in the Marshallese community in Arkansas.

Silence on Black female victims weakens the fight against police brutality.

A new project to ensure that tampons and pads are available at homeless shelters.

“What Is Systemic Racism?” Jay Smooth will explain in a new video series at Race Forward.

Abortion stigma and the case of Purvi Patel.

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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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