By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Our own Katherine on that NYT piece questioning the benefit of sex reassignment surgery for trans people: “Medical transition helped me take ownership of my body. Activism and political change is required to ameliorate the rest.”

Increasingly, anti-choice extremists are trying to hunt down personal and medical information on people undergoing abortions and the doctors who perform them. 

A queer history of Grace Jones.

Read Morgan P. Page and Melissa Gira Grant on the federal raid of Rentboy.com, one of the oldest escort websites on the internet. Plus a website with resources for people who have advertised on the platform.

When bruised male egos kill.

Strong Families is seeking trans and gender non-conforming visual artists to collaborate with groups to create art for the Trans Day of Remembrance.

What actually happens when you have an abortion.

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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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