Sally Ride
By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Happy birthday, Sally Ride!

Maggie Gyllenhaal, age 37, was told recently that she was too old to play the lover of a man who was 55. 

5 things to know about female servicemembers.

Meet Amanda Saab, the first hijab-wearing TV chef in the US.

Protesting the “tampon tax.”

Texas is pushing through a law that will make it harder for minors to obtain an abortion through the “judicial bypass” system.

The US public is more liberal than politicians think.

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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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