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By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Rest in peace, Grace Lee Boggs.

Hillary Clinton unveiled a tough gun control plan, which includes a measure to keep domestic abusers from getting guns. 

High school students in South Carolina wear scarlet letters to protest their sexist dress code.

Again: When it comes to mass shootings, we need to be talking more about toxic masculinity.

A deal has been struck on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade agreement. Here’s why it’s a bad idea.

Three women sports reporters were denied post-game entrance into the Jacksonville Jaguars’ locker room because they were women.

A look at the sexist medical logic of 18th century law.

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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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