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By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Teen feminists FTW.

In a show of how desperate they’ve become, opponents of same-sex marriage are now arguing that allowing gay people to marry will somehow lead to 900,000 more abortions. 

New survey finds 41 percent of Latinxs believe that the main reason that domestic violence victims in their community don’t seek help is for fear of deportation.

A dozen Native actors walked off the set of Adam Sandler’s new movie after finding the script grossly offensive to Native women and elders.

What would a “feminist foreign policy” look like?

The best and worst depictions of abortion on screen.

Poor people need money, not a lesson in morality from David Brooks.

Awful. A woman died after taking toxic diet pills.

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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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