Jessica Williams
By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

“In the tradition of how Pride started, I interrupted his speech because it is time for our issues and struggles to be heard.” – Jennicet Gutiérrez

An investigative report on the sexual violence faced by women janitors. 

Good news from the Supreme Court for those us who didn’t want to see millions lose their affordable health insurance.

And another important ruling on discriminatory housing policies.

Three British teens are working on inventing condoms that change colors to detect STDs.

Eleanor Holmes Norton dares the House GOP to try to overturn DC’s local law protecting reproductive health care. “Reproductive choice, where the overwhelming majority of Americans are with us? Want to attack that one? Go ahead.”

Jessica Williams is unimpressed with the plan to put a woman on the $10 bill.

St. Paul, MN

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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