map of difference between minimum wage and cost of living
By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

There’s no county in the United States where a minimum wage earner can support a family.

A manifesto for a Canada — which the whole world could use — that’s based on caring for the earth and each other. 

Why so many Danish women are opting to become single mothers.

“The ability of women of color and immigrant women to lead healthy reproductive lives is an integral part of the right to self-determination in all aspects of their lives and inherently impacts their economic security and independence.”

On the politics of first-person “confessional” essays.

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ big story on mass incarceration is out.

Header image: MIT/Amy Glasmeier

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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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