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By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

After deciding against it earlier this year, the House passed an unconstitutional 20-week abortion ban today.

WAM! has released a report on Twitter’s harassment problem and their recommendations for change. 

A California judge ruled that a school district’s abstinence-only-until-marriage curriculum doesn’t meet the state’s requirement for medically accurate sex ed.

Why you can’t talk about the Amtrak derailment without talking about our infrastructure crisis.

Former Feministing editor Samhita Mukhopadhyay explains how the NYT‘s nail salon exposé shows that “women’s access to the work world has come at the expense of poor women’s labor.”

New Hampshire is the first state to ban lower-than-minimum wages for workers with disabilities.

Entering the mind of my rapist.

 

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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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