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Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

We’ll be taking the next week off from regular posting to celebrate the holidays and recharge, but we’ll have a DFCS each day so you won’t be left completely without your Feministing fix. See you in 2015! 

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And don’t forget: There’s still time to get a Feministing membership for the feminists in your life and send them one of these lovely holiday cards.

A district judge struck down the Department of Labor’s order extending minimum wage and overtime pay protections to home care workers.

“The reality of our biological and neurological makeup is such that, in spite of our best efforts, victims of sexual abuse may sometimes be incapable of telling their stories accurately, if at all.”

Department of Justice is suing the Chicago Board of Education for discriminating against pregnant teachers.

The failure of bystander intervention.

Shaneka Thompson, the ex-girlfriend of Ismaaiyl Brinsley who shot Thompson before killing two NYPD police officers, is expected to survive.

The Columbia Journalism School is going to conduct an independent review of Rolling Stone’s UVA piece.

Indonesia will abolish the practice of requiring “virginity tests” at the state-run college for civil servant applicants.

Black LGBT people in the US are more likely to live in states without employment discrimination protections.

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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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