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By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Mysterious Italian novelist Elena Ferrante is annoyed about speculation that’s she’s actually a man.

A Catholic woman who’s had an abortion on what the Pope’s new order means to her.

“Emotional labor isn’t a silly fluffy girl skill. It’s a life skill.” And more men need to practice it. 

Some female Muslim superheroes to check out.

“Beyond its dehumanizing consequences, the myth of the ‘anchor baby’ perpetuates the mistaken notion that having a U.S. citizen child is an effective means for unauthorized parents to stay in the United States. The fact is, having children who are U.S. citizens is rarely a factor in immigration decisions and the U.S. routinely rips families apart.”

The Department of Health and Human Services issued new proposed regulations to protect transgender people from discrimination in health care.

Our own Reina Gattuso was interviewed for Nat. Brut’s series on inclusivity and the arts.

The privatization of childhood.

Header image credit: Revolution Art Now

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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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