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By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

“The politicians howling to defund Planned Parenthood care nothing about the truth here, being perfectly willing to undermine women’s reproductive rights any way they can.”

Nicki Minaj tweets about being snubbed by the VMAs; Taylor Swift totally misses the point. 

The father who brought a lawsuit against Obamacare for the right to deny his adult daughters birth control coverage got a win in court.

“I realized that, like many women, I had made all the decisions of my life on someone else’s behalf.”

How women contribute $3 trillion to global health care.

The courts struck down North Dakota’s ban on abortion at around six weeks of pregnancy.

“I am the Black woman who interrupted the Netroots presidential town hall, and this is why.”

We stand with PP.

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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