women farmers in Chile
By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

The Obama administration reminds health insurance companies that they were serious when they said insurers must cover all birth control with no co-pays.

New York Governor Cuomo announces new measures to protect nail salon workers. 

Happy mother’s day to young moms.

More than 100 women small farmers from Chile’s Patagonia region have joined together to achieve economic autonomy.

“What does Purvi Patel’s case tell us about what might it take to be truly for life, and fully celebrate mothers and their children?”

Tara Culp-Ressler on gender bias in the health care system, with quotes from yours truly.

Women share how their moms affected their body image.

Will Hillary Clinton move the left when it comes to welfare reform?

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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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