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By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Fast food workers are striking in 270 cities today to Fight for $15.

The ACLU is filing a discrimination lawsuit against the hotel that called the police on Meagan Taylor, the Black trans woman jailed in Iowa this summer. 

A powerful piece on consent, non-consent, and trauma.

Watch the trailer for the upcoming documentary about trans elder and activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy.

Detroit businesswomen are paying to address the rape kit backlog themselves.

Help fund this documentary on women and online harassment.

Header image credit: @seiuhcmi

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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