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By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Photo of the Day: Vanity Fair celebrates the all-male “titans” of late-night television, and, predictably, the internet has some things to say. Samantha Bee, who’s getting her own late-night show next year, makes an edit. 

Five women farmworkers were awarded $17 million after they suffered sexual harassment, rape, and retaliation by their employers.

How bans on telemedicine abortion hurt rural people.

“It is not enough to condemn campus sexual assault. We need to end campus sexual assault.” – Hillary Clinton

Matt Damon interrupts Effie Brown, a successful black woman producer, to explain diversity to her.

We need way more federal support for child care.

Why sociologists know that “colorblindness” is bullshit.

“I have come to believe that Jewish history demands my solidarity with the reproductive justice movement.”

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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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