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I'm Dr. Aviva Rong. My guest today is someone whose work I started following when she wrote an article in

Pacific Standard called Is Medical Gender Bias killing young women?

Maya Dusenberry is a writer, editor of Feministing.com and author of the new book Doing Harm,

the truth about how bad medicine and lazy science author of the new book Doing Harm, The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science

leave women dismissed, misdiagnosed, and sick, which explores how gender bias in the

medical system is harming women.

In 2013 she became editorial director of the trailblazing website

Feministing where Maya has written about a range of important feminist topics including

abortion stigma, rape culture, masculinity, economic

justice, and occasionally her favorite TV shows since 2009. I think we

share one of those favorite TV shows based on a Facebook post I wrote and a blog you recently

wrote. We'll talk about that.

Maya has also been a fellow at Mother Jones magazine and an online columnist at Pacific

Standard.

Her work has appeared in publications like Hoff Po,

Cosmopolitan, bitch magazine, The Atlantic.com,

as well as The anthology, The Feminist Utopia Project. Before becoming a full-time journalist,

Maya worked at the National Institute for Reproductive Health.

She is a Minnesota native who received her

BA from Carlton College in 2008

and is based in the Twin Cities.

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