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Today at Ms. | February 9, 2024
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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce: What’s a Feminist to Think? [[link removed]]
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Travis Kelce #87 of the Kansas City Chiefs celebrates with Taylor Swift after defeating the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC Championship Game at M&T Bank Stadium on Jan. 28, 2024 in Baltimore. (Patrick Smith / Getty Images)
BY E. SCOTT OSBORNE | Move over Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen, American’s prom has a new king and queen. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are here, and a right-wing political meltdown is in the works. Swift’s 300 million fans are protective of her and absolutely gushing about this storybook romance. What’s a feminist to make of all this?
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Our Abortion Stories: ‘I Knew Something Was Wrong, But My Doctor Wouldn’t Listen’ [[link removed]]
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Abortion rights supporters rally at the Texas Capitol on May 14, 2022 in Austin, the day a leaked Supreme Court opinion signaled the eventual overturn of Roe v. Wade. (Montinique Monroe / Getty Images)
BY TALLULAH COSTA, ALEXA SCHNUR and LIVIA FOLLET | Abortions are sought by a wide range of people for many different reasons. There is no single story. Telling stories of then and now shows how critical abortion has been and continues to be for women and girls. (Share your abortion story by emailing [email protected].)
Two women detail their experiences with miscarriage and abortion healthcare in this edition of Our Abortion Stories: “It was one blow after another. It turned out the doctors there wanted me to have a hysterectomy. I laughed at them.”
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Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation: Katie Porter’s Single Parenting and Politicking; Black Women’s Leadership in Early Primary States [[link removed]]
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BY CYNTHIA RICHIE TERRELL | Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation.
This week: Denver Mayor Mike Johnston has hired an all-women team as his senior leadership staff; the impact of gender quotas in Burundi; the state of ranked-choice voting; the power of Black women’s leadership in early primary states; and more.
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Grief is long, complicated, isolating, and devastating. It’s also something that we will all experience. So then, the question becomes, if so many of us are experiencing such profound loss in our lives, why isn’t it easier to talk about? In this episode, Wanda Irving, Co-Founder of Dr. Shalon’s Maternal Action Project, joins to discuss grief and how she’s used it to spark a movement.
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