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By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

On Twitter, people share their experiences of when they were #firstharassed.

Good news: the California assembly passed a bill banning crisis pregnancy centers from misleading patients. 

At least 4,000 migrant workers in Qatar are expected to die before the 2022 World Cup.

At this Seattle high school, students can get IUDs inserted at no cost at the school-based health clinic.

An interesting look at the way reproductive organs were described in 16th- and 17th-century England.

One reason why men are retweeted more than 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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