Toni Morrison
By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Congrats to Sarah Thomas, the NFL’s first full-time female official.

Great piece by our own Mychal Denzel Smith on abolishing the police. “What use do I have for an institution that routinely kills people who look like me, and make it so I’m afraid to walk out of my home?” 

Happy Riot Grrrl Day, Bostonians!

A Texas deputy was caught on film hitting 38-weeks pregnant woman during an arrest.

Here’s the cover of the forthcoming Notorious RBG Book.

A summer movie season for women.

The NY Times Magazine profiles Toni Morrison.

“In England, no one can stop women’s soccer.”

Fracking is a feminist issue.

Header image credit: Katy Grannan for The New York Times

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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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