Magic Mike
By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Birth control costs have been slashed in half since Obamacare’s contraception mandate took effect.

Why straight men should see Magic Mike XXL: “Too many men, I fear, do not know what the face of a joyfully turned-on woman looks like.” 

Google’s algorithm shows high-paying executive job ads more to men than to women.

How Back to the Future helped make Jamil Smith a feminist.

Slavery did not end in 1865 — it evolved.

Cyborg witches.

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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