Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

“The freedom to offend the powerful is not equivalent to the freedom to bully the relatively disempowered.”

A new documentary tells the story of Latinas sterilized without their consent in California. 

“Eight months from now, Roe v. Wade could be dead.”

A look at why Georgia ranks as the deadliest state in the US for women giving birth.

Doctors are finally catching up to midwives and saying most don’t need to fast during labor.

Chris Christie vetoed a bill that would have made it harder for domestic abusers to get guns.

A PSA to nice girls.

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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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