By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

“If you give a woman or a man without his or her knowledge a drug and then have sex with that person without consent that’s rape. And I think this country and any civilized country should have no tolerance for rape.” – President Obama responding to a question from the press today about the accusations against Bill Cosby. 

“It’s boring to say that women’s sports are boring.”

Great piece by Melissa Chadburn on resilience and how well-meaning non-profits perpetuate poverty.

House Republicans pull a breast cancer research funding bill over unfounded concerns that it would indirectly fund Planned Parenthood.

Yet another reason we need comprehensive and early sex education.

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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