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Today at Ms. | December 1, 2023
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Florida: Where Learning Goes to Die [[link removed]]
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A Moms For Liberty meeting in Vero Beach, Fla., on Oct. 16, 2022. (Giorgio Viera / AFP via Getty Images)
BY KATE CUMISKEY | I’ve been a clerk, teacher and administrator in Volusia County, Fla., schools for decades. Our 9-year-old grandson will no longer be educated here.
Last school year, one like no other, I kept a journal because the laws coming down from Tallahassee and the school board meetings I regularly attend had become frightening. I knew the effects in the schools would be equally scary. They were worse than I imagined.
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Strong of Song: The Women’s Music Movement Turns 50 [[link removed]]
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Clockwise from left: Meg Christian, Cris Williamson, Holly Near and Linda Tillery.
BY BONNIE J. MORRIS | Both a product (albums! cassettes! posters!) and a destination (rallies! concerts! festivals!), women’s music fused feminist politics, woman-staffed sound production and grassroots folk traditions to create a bold new recording and performance network. When we had no rights at all, women’s music was also the sound and site of the lesbian revolution. This year we celebrate the musicians and producers who, across five decades, gave us the soundtracks and spaces affirming our lives.
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Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation: Michigan Leads the Way to Gender-Balanced Democracy; Wins for Native Women [[link removed]]
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BY REPRESENTWOMEN | It’s almost the weekend, which means it’s time for our Weekend Reading series—so pour yourself a glass of wine, curl up under that blanket, and catch up on the latest in women’s representation in the U.S. and abroad.
This week: Michigan’s state legislature is roughly 40 percent women, and ranked-choice voting passed in three cities; how women’s equality and leadership thrived among many Native American nations; America Ferrera keeps it real with the BBC; and more.
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In conversation with experts, Prof. Dorothy Roberts uncovers how over time, the child welfare system went from neglecting Black children to over policing and separating Black families. She also investigates how family policing and taking children has been a tool to suppress Black resistance against racial oppression and continues to surveil, regulate, and punish Black families today.
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