Alondra de la Para
By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Hillary Clinton met with the mothers of Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis, Michael Brown, and Tamir Rice.

“You’ll learn that sex isn’t something you should do because you feel obligated to do it, even if you want it in theory.” 

The science of the sports bra.

Alondra de la Parra, a Mexican conductor and pianist, is the new chief conductor of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, making her one of the few women directing a major orchestra.

How workers’ comp policies leave women to fend for themselves.

Unions are good for women.

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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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