Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

The White House has hired its first openly trans staffer, and she is a badass trans woman of color.

A man was arrested after bringing a bomb into a Kansas abortion clinic

“Essentially the NYC subway system is useless if you use a wheelchair.”

Oscar Pistorius has been released from prison after 10 months and will serve the rest of his 5 year sentence for murdering his girlfriend under house arrest at a mansion.

A Native perspective on the sexual abuse to prison pipeline.

The VA’s women problem. And contraception in combat zones.

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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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