Ginsberg and Steinem

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Abortion access nationwide quite literally hangs in the balance.”

Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Gloria Steinem reminisce together. 

It’s not just disparities in access to health care that explain Black women’s high rates of maternal mortality.

A mother whose baby died on his first day at day care calls for federal paid family leave: “A mother should never have no choice but to leave her infant with a stranger at 3 months old if that decision doesn’t feel right to her.”

Call her out, but call her Cait.

Roxane Gay on the search for safe spaces.

The rise of vintage masculinity.

What have you been reading in the aftermath of last week’s terrorist attacks? Leave any important links in the comments.

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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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