By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Columbia’s president refused to shake Emma Sulkowicz’s hand when she accepted her diploma.

Los Angeles is becoming the largest city to raise its minimum wage to $15 per hour. 

In a new survey, US teens say the primary reason why they don’t use birth control is because they’re afraid their parents will find out.

A federal appeals court again rejected the University of Notre Dame’s legal challenge to Obamacare’s contraception mandate.

The marriage rate is about to hit an all-time low.

Want to know what you can do as an alum to support the fight against campus sexual assault at your alma mater? There’s now a guide for that.

#SayHerName: A new report on police brutality against Black women.

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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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