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By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

A new study shows that the Black community overwhelmingly supports contraception and abortion access.

“Asking women to modify their speech is just another way we are asked to internalize and compensate for sexist bias in the world.” 

What Orange Is the New Black gets right about rape.

Jeb Bush’s comments about how workers “need to work longer hours” could not be more wrong.

Feminist. Sea. Shanty.

Meet Candace Hill, the fastest girl ever.

Rooting hard for a Channing Tatum-Roxane Gay convo on Magic Mike show.

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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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