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By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 10 years ago

Vote today! Because the GOP is really, really hoping you won’t

It’s disturbing just how accurate this parody video from the Young Turks is. 

Fox News is totally fine if us young women are too hot–or too busy on Tinder–to care about voting, because Republicans are counting on women, especially the young single women and women of color who came out so strongly for President Obama two years ago, staying home today–not to mention using new voting restrictions to prevent mostly young, low-income, people of color from voting. In our current political context–in which one party’s electoral strategy requires suppressing the votes of nearly everyone who isn’t a rich white dude–voting isn’t just a civic duty or civil right. It’s also an opportunity to say “fuck you.”

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Vote today! Because reproductive rights are lost when Republicans gain control of state legislatures

Maya DusenberyMaya Dusenbery is an Executive Director of Feministing.

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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