Maya Dusenbery

Dusenbery has said that she became motivated to become involved with feminist movements as a teenager when she read about abstinence-only education: "I clearly remember in high school reading about the Bush administration restricting funding for HIV prevention to groups that were abstinence-only and I remember thinking that was the most absurd thing I ever heard, almost criminally ridiculous."{{Cite news|url=http://feministing.com/2012/02/25/the-feministing-five-maya-dusenbery/|title=The Feministing Five: Maya Dusenbery|work=Feministing|access-date=2018-03-10|language=en-US}}

Dusenbery began her career working as a communications assistant at NARAL Pro-Choice New York and the National Institute for Reproductive Health.{{Cite web|url=https://www.womensmediacenter.com/shesource/expert/maya-dusenbery|title=Maya Dusenbery - SheSource Expert - Women’s Media Center|website=www.womensmediacenter.com|language=en|access-date=2018-03-10}} Since 2009, she has reported on issues of reproductive health, including abortion stigma, rape culture, and masculinity, for Bitch Media,{{Cite news|url=https://www.bitchmedia.org/issue/59|title=Micro/Macro|work=Bitch Media|access-date=2018-03-10|language=en}} The Atlantic, Cosmopolitan, the Huffington Post, and Mother Jones (where she was a fellow in 2012){{Cite news|url=https://www.motherjones.com/mag/2012/05/masthead/|title=Masthead|work=Mother Jones|access-date=2018-03-10|language=en-US}} and Pacific Standard, where she is a columnist.{{Cite web|url=https://psmag.com/author/maya-dusenbery|title=Articles by Maya Dusenbery|website=Pacific Standard|language=en|access-date=2018-03-10}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/maya-dusenbery|title=Maya Dusenbery {{!}} HuffPost|website=www.huffingtonpost.com|language=en|access-date=2018-03-10}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/author/maya-dusenbery/|title=Maya Dusenbery|last=Dusenbery|first=Maya|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US|access-date=2018-03-10}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.motherjones.com/author/maya-dusenbery/|title=Maya Dusenbery|website=Mother Jones|language=en-US|access-date=2018-03-10}} In 2013, she became the editorial director of feminist media outlet Feministing.{{Cite web|url=http://feministing.com/author/maya/|title=Maya Dusenbery Archive {{!}} Feministing|website=Feministing|language=en-US|access-date=2018-03-10}} Dusenbery wrote a chapter for the Feminist Press anthology The Feminist Utopia Project imagining a future without rape.{{Cite web|url=https://www.feministpress.org/books-a-m/the-feminist-uto|title=The Feminist Utopia Project|website=Feminist Press|language=en-US|access-date=2018-03-10}}

In March 2018, HarperCollins published Dusenbery's book Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick, an analysis of gender bias in modern medical treatment in the United States.{{Cite news|url=https://www.thecut.com/2018/03/doctors-dont-know-how-to-deal-with-womens-pain-books.html|title=Doctors Don’t Know How to Deal With Women’s Pain|last=Pai|first=Deanna|work=The Cut|access-date=2018-03-10|language=en}} Dusenbery's personal experience motivated her to write the book: She was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis at the age of 27 and was surprised to learn that 50 million Americans suffer from autoimmune diseases, the majority of them women.{{Cite news|url=https://rewire.news/article/2018/03/07/not-head-new-book-sheds-light-bad-medicine-lazy-science-that-harm-women/|title=It’s Not All in Your Head: New Book Sheds Light on 'Bad Medicine and Lazy Science' Harming Women - Rewire.News|work=Rewire.News|access-date=2018-03-10|language=en-US}} Publishers Weekly gave the book a starred review, saying it "skillfully interweaves history, medical studies, current literature, and hard data to produce damning evidence that women wait longer for diagnoses, receive inadequate pain management, and are often told they are imagining symptoms that are taken seriously in men."{{Cite news|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-06-247080-5|title=Nonfiction Book Review: Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick by Maya Dusenbery. HarperOne, $27.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-247080-5|work=PublishersWeekly.com|access-date=2018-03-10|language=en}} The book also received a positive review from Kirkus Reviews, which described it as a "sturdy account of how sexism in medicine is hobbling women’s health care."{{Cite book|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/maya-dusenbery/doing-harm-dusenbery/|title=DOING HARM by Maya Dusenbery {{!}} Kirkus Reviews|language=en-us}} Doing Harm was highlighted as a recommended read by Popular Science, Harpers Bazaar, and Bitch Media.{{Cite news|url=https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-books-music/g18666443/best-new-books-march-2018/|title=March's Best New Books Have Something for Every Taste|date=2018-02-28|work=Harper's BAZAAR|access-date=2018-03-10|language=en-US}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.popsci.com/science-books-march-2018|title=Five new science books you should read this month|work=Popular Science|access-date=2018-03-10|language=en}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/bitchreads/march-2018-book-picks|title=15 Books You Should Read In March|work=Bitch Media|access-date=2018-03-10|language=en}}

Dusenbery is a native of Minnesota and received a B.A. from Carleton College in 2008.{{Cite web|url=https://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/wgst/events/?event_id=1135259&date=2014-05-19|title=Maya Dusenbery '08: Feministing Offline and Unfiltered {{!}} Women’s and Gender Studies {{!}} Carleton College|website=apps.carleton.edu|language=en-US|access-date=2018-03-10}} She now lives in the Twin Cities.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mayadusenbery.com/about/|title=About|website=Maya Dusenbery|language=en-US|access-date=2018-03-10}}

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