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Today at Ms. | June 8, 2023 |
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Abortion rights supporter Faith Halstead chants along with other protesters near the Florida State Capitol, where state senators voted to pass a proposed sic-week abortion ban in Tallahassee, on April 3, 2023. (The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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BY JILL FILIPOVIC | Where voters are allowed to have a say, they give a resounding “yes” to abortion rights. Instead of adjusting their politics accordingly, the GOP just makes it harder for voters to vote.
There is a direct relationship between authoritarianism and opposition to abortion rights. After all, what is more authoritarian and more a rejection of basic individual freedoms, than believing the government should be able to force you into pregnancy and motherhood?
(This essay is part of Women’s Rights and Backsliding Democracies project—a multimedia project made up of essays, video and podcast programming, presented by Ms., NYU Law’s Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network and Rewire News Group.) (Click here to read more) |
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Safe In Harm’s Way, DomesticShelters.org and Neon launched the ‘Hidden Horrors’ campaign on March 27. (Sam Lauro / Neon) |
BY MICHELLE MOULTON | A new campaign from Safe In Harm’s Way, DomesticShelters.org and Neon is exposing domestic violence abusers as master manipulators. Since domestic violence perpetrators don’t always fit the “wife-beater” mold, “Hidden Horrors” is calling attention to how most people have likely been deceived by an abuser at some point in their lives—especially if they haven’t experienced the abuse first-hand. Ms. spoke with Caroline Hammond, CEO of Safe In Harm’s Way, and Sam Lauro, group art supervisor at Neon, to discuss the campaign’s creative process, how to expose the real monsters hiding in plain sight, how to support survivors and how to navigate healing. (Click here to read more) |
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BY LINDSY VAN GELDER | From the July/August 1987 issue of Ms. magazine:
“Just as straight feminists have questioned the old rules that say that intercourse always has to lead to babies, lesbians are rebelling against the idea that babies always have to come from intercourse.”
(Click here to read more) |
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