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By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Amandla Stenberg is the shit.

GOP presidential hopefuls compete over their anti-choice credentials. 

Jackie Fuch reflects on the responses to her account of being raped by The Runaways manager.

At least 28 students have been seriously injured — and one killed — by school cops in the past 5 years.

An interview with abortion provider Dr. Willie Parker.

Sen. Patrick Leahy is pissed about FIFA’s sexism too.

Hillary Clinton devoted lots of time to discussing women’s inequality in her recent economic speech.

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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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