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By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

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Have you made a Mama in your life a card for this weekend? Strong Families has a new set of  beautiful — and free! — Mother’s Day e-cards. 

Congrats to our own Dana Bolger who was honored as one of Women’s eNew’s 21 leaders of the year.

On a riot by trans women in the Tenderloin three years before Stonewall: “It was the first known instance of collective militant queer resistance to police harassment in United States history.”

A Nebraska woman has sued “the homosexuals.”

In case you missed Oprah’s interview with Janet Mock.

St. Paul, MN

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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