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Happy Magic Mike XXL release day! By the time you read this, I’ll be sitting front and center at the theater.

So far this year, states have enacted 51 new abortion restrictions; bringing the total since 2010 to 282. 

Watch Black women speaking out about their experiences with police violence.

President Obama’s plan to extend overtime protections to nearly 5 million workers will especially help women and people of color.

An investigation into the millions of dollars the federal government spends on harmful abstinence-focused sex ed.

Cuba has become the first country in the world to stop the transmission of the AIDS virus from mothers to their babies.

A forthcoming documentary explores plus-size modeling.

How anti-choice groups groups masquerade as post-abortion care services and spread lies about the procedure.

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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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