Nigerian soccer players celebrating

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Mia Hamm pumps up the crowd at a party before the US women’s soccer team’s match against Nigeria tonight at 8 pm ET.

The Dominican Republic is preparing to deport more than 100,000 people to Haiti

Only 74 black women hold a PhD in physics, astronomy, applied physics, and space physics combined.

Argentine women protest machismo and “femicidio.”

The WAM!NYC Conference is happening this weekend and featuring — among other cool speakers — the co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter.

Ugh, rich people.

“But in this new moment in history, ‘abortion’ is back. The coded language of the older guard is giving way to frank talk from a younger generation of activists.”

1 In 4 British tech companies have no female execs.

Rachel Dolezal insists that she identifies as Black. Here are a few good reads on the whole mess.

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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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