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By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

On “sweatshop feminists” and how global elites have appropriated feminist language to justify neoliberal exploitation.

Leave it to a Fox News contributor to link the Charleston shooting to abortion. 

Reporting a campus sexual assault can be especially difficult for students of color.

Study finds that training clinic staff to provide counseling on long-acting birth control like IUDs cuts the unintended pregnancy rate by half.

Jesus fucking christ. Adults hurled racist insults at Girl Scouts speaking up for animal rights.

Oregon becomes the first state to require that insurers cover a 12-month supply of contraception in a single dispersal.

“I am a white woman. No more murder in my name.”

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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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