By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

The hunger strike launched last week at the T. Don Hutto immigrant detention center has grown to the hundreds.

Rep. Paul Ryan continues to want a work-family balance for himself but nobody else. 

Michelle Obama pens an editorial about her Let Girls Learn initiative.

“These legislators who refuse to expand Medicaid call themselves pro-life, but their policies prove otherwise. They care nothing for life once it has exited the birth canal. They care only about scoring political points, and as the body count mounts, they suffer no consequences for the lives they allow to be snuffed out.”

An interview with Thena Robinson-Mock on the criminalization of Black girls and how we can end it.

“Kesha now faces an abysmal decision: work with her alleged abuser…or idly and passively wait as her career tick-tocks away.”

100 women directors Hollywood should be hiring.

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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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