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By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Ban frats.

Black Lives Matter organizers will hold rallies across the country tomorrow calling attention to the black trans women who have been murdered this year. 

Pregnancy is painful, difficult, and dangerous, and no one should be forced into it.

Laughing while black will apparently get you kicked off a train.

Meet the protestors who want Planned Parenthood to be defunded.

Who won science fiction’s Hugo Awards and why it matters.

John Oliver explains why we need a federal LGBT civil rights law.

A new study suggests there’s no benefit to aggressive treatment of early-stage breast cancer.

Former Feministing writer Zerlina Maxwell is hosting a HuffPost Live series on campus rape this week.

Header image via Raw Story

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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