By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Sexism in the kitchen.

The economics of male birth control. 

Sheryl Sandberg bestows a “lean in” award on Rep. Paul Ryan, a man who apparently thinks family time is a privilege only the wealthy deserve.

#DoIMatterNow campaign promotes Indigenous-Muslim solidarity in Canada.

An intruder with a hatchet destroyed phones, medical equipment, and computers at a Planned Parenthood in New Hampshire.

The NCAA’s political economy of misogyny.

On the “repetitive myopia” of a White feminism that fails to “take account, to converse and think along with Black and Third World Feminists.”

Meet Seseme Street’s first muppet with autism.

St. Paul, MN

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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