By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Stephenie Meyer has released a gender-swapped version of Twilight.

Women are underrepresented in clinical trials for HIV drugs. 

Staceyann Chin and her daughter, Zuri, do a living room protest in support of Planned Parenthood.

Girls, many of whom have suffered a range of trauma at home, make up a growing share of children arrested and detained across the country.

Yiiikes, the publicity campaign for the upcoming movie Suffragette is not off to a good start.

The American Cancer Association is being criticized for giving out makeup bags to women with breast cancer that contain known carcinogens.

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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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