By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Across the US, students walked out of their classrooms to demand a free college education as part of the Million Student March.

“We will not achieve equal opportunity until a poor woman has the same sovereignty over her body and her future as a wealthy man.” 

A judge removed a foster child from the home of a gay married couple because he says the child would be better off with heterosexual parents.

A Dr. Seuss-style poem for MRA children.

An interview with Aziz Ansari about his new show Master of None and sexual harassment, and women in comedy.

Abortion clinics are closing in blue states too.

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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