By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Arizona’s absurd “reverse” abortion law has been put on hold while the courts hearing a lawsuit against it.

The gender politics of Jurassic World fall short of the original. 

As the country starts deporting immigrants and Dominicans of Haitian descent, remember that “the enforcement model the Dominican Republican uses to police its boundary with Haiti is an import from the United States.”

How anti-choice legislatures have forced the creation of an abortion charity system.

A new survey finds one in five college women report being sexually assaulted.

Holy shit, toxic shock syndrome is scary.

Our own Katie Halper is launching a show on WBAI Radio. Tune in for her first episode tonight and catch Syreeta as well!

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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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