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By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

“We seek justice and will keep on fighting till history proves us right.” End the Hyde Amendment. Pass the EACH Woman Act. 

Sweden is moving towards a six-hour work day.

Navajo midwives in New Mexico are opening the first ever Native American birth center.

A male GOP lawmaker is confused why Planned Parenthood needs to exist since “as a guy,” there are lots of places he can go for health care.

San Francisco will be the first city in the country to operate a program that distributes diapers to low-income families who struggle to afford them.

The richest companies in the US have shitty parental leave policies.

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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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