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Today at Ms. | February 5, 2025 |
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By Carrie N. Baker | After a narrow political victory in November, a second Trump administration is now threatening to reverse decades of hard-fought gains for women and girls. The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 calls for ending abortion; curtailing contraception; cutting programs supporting mothers and their children; eliminating Head Start childcare; rolling back women’s workplace rights and equal pay measures; undermining LGBTQ+ rights; gutting Title IX protections against sexual assault and harassment; investigating and prosecuting universities and other entities over the use of diversity, equity and inclusion policies; and so much more.
(This is the third in a four-part series on the steps activists are taking to fight for our rights amid Trump’s attacks on democracy.) (Click here to read more) |
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By Kiran Nazish | Chrystia Freeland, the former deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Canada, has taken on Trump before. During his last presidency, she was Canada’s quarterback, who amidst Trump’s snarky comments and bullying, charmingly negotiated her way out into a cohesive NAFTA deal that worked not only for Canada but all players. Now she is up for a rematch.
In a time where masculinity is once again defining much of global leadership, many women in power are looking to one another for inspiration, solidarity and models of leadership that challenge the status quo. Freeland, it seemed, unintentionally has been seen as a female leader among international peers, even before she officially launched her recent leadership campaign focused on taking on Trump.
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By Janell Hobson | With all the upheaval, just two weeks in, that has accompanied the second term of the current presidential administration, the 67th annual Grammy Awards show came and went Sunday night like a welcome distraction. Even calling the event a “distraction” misses the serious work of art and its purpose in troubled times: to mobilize the masses, reaffirm our values and spread joy and light amid the darkness.
The big night, however, went to pop star Beyoncé, who not only made history as the first Black woman to win Best Country Album, but finally earned Album of the Year for her politically salient album Cowboy Carter, after previously losing in the category. The album, which opened with a “requiem” for America and closed on a prayer that “we’ll be the ones to purify our fathers’ sins,” calls on all of us to witness this nation’s history and its present, to reckon with its “sins” of exclusion and discrimination and demand that we purify it toward the democratic promise it has always held out for all of us and not just a select few determined to set us back on a backward course.
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