Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Why one woman donated fetal tissue after her later abortion: “I was able to turn my pain into something that could benefit someone else.”

“Increasingly, as a black woman in America, I do not feel alive. I feel like I am not yet dead.” 

Our own Reina on why monogamy isn’t for her.

A Washington court rules pharmacists can’t refuse to dispense medication based on their personal religious objection.

Activists attending the national #BlackLivesMatter convention were pepper sprayed.

“Hearing that some man’s entitled attitude towards women led him to kill is so common that it hardly counts as newsworthy.”

The missing women of the Mediterranean refugee crisis.

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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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