Dee Barnes with Dr. Dre
By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Dee Barnes, the journalist that Dr. Dre brutally beat up in 1991, reflects on watching “Straight Outta Compton’s revisionist history.”

Most Americans are in favor of federal funding for Planned Parenthood. 

Why are movies about queer women mostly terrible?

The FDA approved flibanserin to treat low sexual desire in women. A victory for feminism — or the opposite?

Today in the height of whitesplaining.

Header image credit: Gawker

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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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