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By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

The cop who killed Eric Garner won’t be charged. As Mallory notes, so much for the myth that body cameras would prevent police violence. “Eric Garner died unarmed. He died on the ground. He died because of an illegal chokehold. We saw it. The grand jury saw it. They saw it, and we saw it, and collectively we said, ‘We didn’t see that. That didn’t happen.'” Multiple protests are planned in NYC tonight.

We’re standing with Peggy Young — and all pregnant workers — today.

Femmes of color sound off.

Janet Mock’s second annual #TransBookDrive, which raises money to send books to incarcerated transgender inmates, is going strong.

On gentrification, rape culture, and an assault at a nude gay bar in New Orleans.

Why activists must approach HIV advocacy using a reproductive justice framework.

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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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