Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

California women now have the strongest equal pay protections in the country.

Women bear six times the cost of Alzheimer’s care compared to men — maybe that’s part of why we’ve been slow to mobilize against the growing epidemic. 

Dispatches from an Alabama mother serving a 10-year sentence for her son’s stillbirth.

Why is Ryan Adams getting more critical acclaim for 1989 than Taylor Swift did?

Rest in peace, Kiesha Jenkins.

“The feminism that people see today is from a white feminist mirror.” – Sandra Cisneros

Vaginal microbiome FTW!

Ashley Judd reveals how she was sexually harassed by a studio mogul in the ’90s.

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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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