Badass woman protester in Macedonia uses a riot shield as a mirror to reapply her lipstick
By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Badass woman protester in Macedonia uses a riot shield as a mirror to reapply her lipstick

A badass woman protester in Macedonia uses a riot shield as a mirror to reapply her lipstick. (Via @badass_w) 

In a time for Mother’s Day, a new report on the gender housework gap shows that mothers’ “position as most hardworking at home is undisputed.”

A photo series of lesbian families in the South.

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In addition to the horrifying labor conditions, nail salon workers’ health is put at risk by the toxic chemicals they’re exposed to.

A collection of emails from irate men defending manspreading.

In the wake of the murder of one of their members, a feminist student group at University of Mary Washington has filed a lawsuit claiming the school ignored violent threats and harassment against them on the app Yik Yak.

Where reproductive rights stand in the states, in six maps.

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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