By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 11 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

A protester holds up a sign at a demonstration outside McDonald's in Times Square in support of employees on strike at various fast-food chains in New York November 29, 2012. Fast-food restaurant employees, many of whom work for minimum wage, protested in New York City on Thursday demanding higher pay and the right to form a union as part of a movement called "Fast Food Forward." REUTERS/Andrew Kelly (UNITED STATES - Tags: CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS FOOD) - RTR3B1F6

We stand in solidarity with the Chicago workers who are striking today. (Image via)

Twitter responds to that ridiculous Politico piece about how the NYT boss lady is such a bitch.

Dartmouth cancelled classes after students who participated in the protests we covered yesterday received rape threats.

Little girls are better at designing superheroes than you.

Thomas Friedman’s “next new world” is apparently composed almost entirely of white dudes.

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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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