By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Native American women will finally get improved access to emergency contraception.

“I cannot and will not give up my family time,” says Rep. Paul Ryan, a lawmaker who has opposed numerous policies that would help other working parents balance work and family. 

10 ways to challenge capitalism’s death grip on daily life.

A new report on how politicians are increasingly inserting themselves into the medical exam room.

Meet Richael Faithful, a queer Black “street shaman.”

Texas cuts off reimbursements to Planned Parenthood for services provided to low-income patients with Medicaid.

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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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