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Today at Ms. | November 17, 2023
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How Women’s Magazines Ignited a Revolution [[link removed]]
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BY SOPHIE GARDNER | When Ms. was founded in 1971, the vast majority of publications for women were about homemaking, parenting advice and fashion and beauty tips. Ms. was far from that, created with the intention of giving a national voice to the feminist movement of the ‘70s—and railing against the idea of the perfect homemaking housewife that was perpetuated by many of the other “for women” publications.
It’s a setting that doesn’t seem too foreign. “The levers of power are very imbalanced still to this very day, not only on sex but also race and ethnicity,” said Kathy Spillar, Ms executive editor. “ Ms. has played a major role in constantly putting that in front of the public so that people understand.”
(This essay is part of the “ Feminist Journalism is Essential to Democracy [[link removed]] ” project— Ms. magazine’s latest installment of Women & Democracy , presented in partnership with the International Women’s Media Foundation.)
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Resisting Climate Patriarchy [[link removed]]
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Indigenous leaders and Water Protector allies protest the Canadian oil-and-gas-transport company Enbridge, during the expansion of the controversial Line 3 pipeline, in St. Paul, Minn., on Aug. 25, 2021. (Michael Nigro / Pacific Press / LightRocket via Getty Images)
BY CAROLYN ELERDING | Construction is complete on the Enbridge corporation’s Line 3 pipeline, which was dug under the Mississippi River to carry expensive, dirty tar sand oil from Alberta, Canada, to be refined in Wisconsin. In Aitkin County, Minn., the trial of Mylene Vialard (aka Ocean) reveals a pipeline of injustice—the structural violence of white settler-colonial capitalist patriarchy. Vialard’s sentencing hearing is scheduled for Monday, Nov. 20.
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Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation: Rep. Abigail Spanberger Is Running for Virginia Governor; Voter Choice Act Reintroduced in the Senate [[link removed]]
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BY REPRESENTWOMEN | Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation.
This week: Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom’s announcement to run for Alaska’s one seat in the House of Representatives; Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) has launched a campaign to run for governor, hoping to succeed Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin; the Voter Choice Act would help local and state elections implement ranked-choice voting; and more.
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In Episode 1: “Terror," Roberts argues that the family policing system is designed to terrorize Black families. Child protective services equate poverty with neglect, using it as a justification to invade homes and threaten to take children away from majority low-income, Black families.
We hope you'll listen, subscribe, rate and review today!
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