By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

The human cost of your haircut.

Janet Mock on Caitlyn Jenner, privilege, glamour, and health care. 

A teen won her lawsuit against an NYPD cop who flirted with her and then arrested her after she rebuffed him.

Scott Walker is fine with signing a 20-week abortion ban into law without a rape exception, because he’s pretty sure that women are most concerned about that “in the initial months” of pregnancy.

8 things not to say to someone who has had an abortion.

A Church of England feminist group is pushing for God to be referred to as both “he” and “she.”

So horrible.

St. Paul, MN

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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