Idris Elba
By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Ashley Diamond, the trans woman suing the Georgia prison system, has been released on parole.

What the reactions to a potential Joe Biden campaign compared to Hillary Clinton’s tell us about sexism in presidential politics. 

“We can’t afford to lose even one more tool that keeps us alive in this economy of violence. There are already too few options for people in the sex trades to sacrifice another to the legions of the hand-wringingly pious… The criminally self-serving publicity stunts represented by the closure of Rentboy.com and myRedBook are nothing but a knot in the ever-expanding dragnet of state violence.”

Today is the day that James Sirius Potter would be starting at Hogwarts, and I feel so old.

We stand with you, Lila Perry.

I don’t know about you, but I took Anthony Horowitz’s absurd claim that Idris Elba is too “street” to play James Bond as an excuse to look at photos of Elba all day.

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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