Obama with USWNT team
By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

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“There is no justification whatsoever for treating a child like this.” #AssaultAtSpringValley

Read Prison Culture on the incident and the Black girls organizing against the school-to-prison pipeline.

President Obama honored the US Women’s National Soccer Team for their World Cup victory. “This team taught all of America’s children that ‘playing like a girl’ means you’re a badass.”

South By Southwest canceled a panel on harassment against women in gaming after Gamergate-related threats, provoking various media outlets to pull out of the conference in protest.

A review of the new book Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

In case you needed a reminder that Fox News is still the worst: The network recently invited a “panel of fathers” to discuss whether they would allow their daughters to leave the house in leggings.

Header image credit: AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster

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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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