By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

The ACLU is calling for an investigation into potential gender bias in Hollywood’s hiring practices.

Eight of the largest health systems in the US are now Catholic-owned. More and more won’t prescribe contraception. 

Tamara Winfrey Harris on the lack of outrage over Black women killed by police.

Books that literally all white men own.

The racism that drives gentrification in NYC.

On the cancellation of The Mindy Project and Cristela.

Many of the girls rescued from Boko Haram are pregnant. Why isn’t anyone talking about their right to abortion?

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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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