By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Young Channing Tatum stripping will get me through this week.

A study shows middle schoolers who got comprehensive sex ed delayed starting to have sex.

Oscar Pistorius was sentenced to five years in jail for for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

“As the cultural relevance of angry white men on the internet withers away and ends, their last words – muttered angrily at an empty room – will surely be “Gamer … gate”.

A Maine Republican representative has still not apologized for saying, “If a woman has the right to abortion, why shouldn’t a man be free to use his superior strength to force himself on a woman?”

Students at my alma mater have started a sex- and body-positive nudie magazine that looks very cool.

Scott Roeder, who is in prison for killing Dr. George Tiller, claims his freedom of speech was violated by being disciplined for making death threats against another abortion provider.

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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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