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By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

For Black women, police brutality and sexual harassment go hand in hand.

Latoya Peterson reflects on the McKinney incident and when she first learned that the “police were not there for my protection.”

An interview with Amy Poehler and Mindly Kahling.

California is looking repeal its racist, sexist maximum family grant rule.

Medical students who want to offer abortion care often can’t get the training they need.

An interview with the editors of Octavia’s Brood, an anthology of radical science fiction by activist writers.

Emma Sulkowicz’s latest work, a website titled Ceci N’est Pas un Viol, was hit by a cyberattack.

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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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