Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Good news: The Supreme Court refused to revive North Carolina’s forced ultrasound law.

But it’s yet to be seen if they’ll step in when it comes to key anti-choice laws in Mississippi and Texas

An Iowa man shot and killed a female coworker after she filed sexual harassment complaints against him.

10 Black women composers to discover.

Women’s unpaid care work is an invisible subsidy to the world’s health care systems.

Prisons that withhold menstrual pads violate basic rights.

On Israel’s abortion committees.

Rachel Dolezal has resigned from the NAACP.

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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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