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Today at Ms. | February 21, 2024
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Painted Windows, Distorted Mirrors: How Banning Books ‘Sterilizes’ Curriculums [[link removed]]
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Painted windows on a schoolhouse. (Image created by author, Eric J. Moore, Ph.D.)
BY ERIC MOORE | To meet the demand of a modern world, we need to be expanding our students’ perspectives and engaging them in rich dialogue, critical thinking and global perspectives. Our children need opportunities to share potent books in community with peers and to learn to discuss challenging topics. If we parents are empowered, we ought to use our power to enable our children, not to narrow their perspectives.
In Ron DeSantis’ Florida we hear echoes of George Orwell’s 1984: ‘Do you know that Florida’s school libraries get smaller every year? Don’t you see that the whole aim is to narrow the range of thought?’
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Abortion Funders in the Southeast Are ‘Helping People Decide What They Want to Do With Their Lives’ [[link removed]]
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BY HANNAH DUDLEY-SHOTWELL and JUSTINA LICATA | Abortion funds are local nonprofits that pay for someone’s abortion, plus extra costs, like transportation or lodging. Their role in the abortion access movement has increased since the fall of Roe. Ms. will feature interviews weeks with fund representatives across the U.S. Each installment will focus on a distinct region—beginning in the Southeast, where every single state in the region has implemented abortion restrictions.
“No human being should ever feel like, ‘Well, I’ve got to figure out what I want to do with this pregnancy by midnight tonight, or else.'” “I enter the work in rage. I am doing abortion access work in sheer rage and spite.”
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The Three Genders, Per One GOP Super PAC: ‘Male,’ ‘Working Woman’ and ‘Homemaker’ [[link removed]]
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Voters wait in line at a polling station at Hellgate Elementary School on May 25, 2017, in Missoula, Montana. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)
BY GRACE PANETTA | How many genders are there, according to one GOP Super PAC? Three: “Male,” “working woman” and “homemaker.” Those are the categories given in a survey sent out to Montanans on behalf of the super PAC More Jobs, Less Government, which is supporting Montana GOP Senate candidate Tim Sheehy.
It could more broadly speak to how antiquated views of women’s roles persist in parts of the Republican electorate.
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Trauma is everywhere we look. But when we are able to reclaim our own stories, we can find a power greater than the power we lost. Journalist and radio producer Stephanie Foo formerly of This American Life and Snap Judgment, joins us to break down her new book What My Bones Know and the radical power available when we reclaim our stories.
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