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It’s Black Breastfeeding Week. Here are some of the structural barriers to breastfeeding that communities of color face.

Saudi women can register to vote for the first time. 

The fact that women and people of color are still underrepresented in medicine has consequences for patients’ health.

Claudia Rankine on the meaning of Serena Williams.

Dee Barnes responds to Dr. Dre’s public apology: “This is bigger than me and bigger than hip-hop.”

Between 2006 and 2013, the number of students in high-poverty school districts increased from 15.9 million to 24 million.

A profile of abortion doula Gaylon Alcaraz.

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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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