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Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

A teen boy in Idaho threatened to bring a gun to school and “kill all the girls” for refusing to send him nude photos. This is what we mean by a culture of violent male entitlement

Pro-choice clergy will bless an abortion clinic in Ohio.

At the major Hollywood film studios, 100 percent of the top execs are men.

Sheila Bapat’s plan for a feminist utopia: redefine the family.

Former Feministing editor Samhita Mukhopadhyay on microaggressions and “victimhood culture.”

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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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