By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

The police told Lara McLeod to report her rape, then arrested her and charged her with making a false accusation.

“Economic justice is not — and has never been — sufficient to ensure racial justice.” - Elizabeth Warren 

On Carly Fiorina’s wholesale lie about Planned Parenthood: “This is an extraordinary moment in the annals of political deception.”

Gender inequality is costly.

Join Pink Out Day to support Planned Parenthood tomorrow.

Endometriosis affects one in 10 women of reproductive age but often it takes years for patients to get properly treated. “The doctors thought it was all in my head.”

Why the US has such shitty paid maternity leave laws.

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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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