Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

“Whether loud or quiet, when Black women refuse to grant fear as a concession to power, they get violently beaten into submission.”

Chris Kluwe pens an angry open letter to the cowards at SXSW. 

“The most pressing issues faced by disabled women are the ones faced by most women, except that when you’re disabled, it adds another layer of discrimination.”

Anna Holmes asks, “Has ‘diversity‘ lost its meaning?”

The NFL has fined the Steelers’ William Gay $5,787 for wearing purple shoes to honor his mother and bring attention to Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

Why does Joanna Newsom bother male critics so much?

The latest report from the Anti-Violence Project on LGBTQ & HIV-affected intimate partner violence.

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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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