Misty Copeland
By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

ICE issued new guidelines for the treatment of transgender people in immigration detention, but it’s not enough.

Misty Copeland becomes the first black principal in American Ballet Theater’s history. 

On female athletes and the power of seeing women in the act of wanting.

Black churches are being set on fire.

Recent SNAP restrictions are another reminder that poverty is a reproductive justice issue.

Missouri becomes the first state to expand insurance coverage of eating disorder treatment.

Facebook is still run mostly by white men.

Anna Holmes on our “post-racial” fantasy.

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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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