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By Ava Slocum and Cat Ross | MAGA Republicans are back in the White House, and Project 2025 is their guide—the right-wing plan to turn back the clock on women’s rights, remove abortion access, and force women into roles as wives and mothers in the “ideal, natural family structure.” We know an empowered female electorate is essential to democracy. That’s why day after day, we stay vigilant in our goals to dismantle patriarchy at every turn. We are watching, and we refuse to go back. This is the War on Women Report.

Since our last report:
—A judge in Indiana has temporarily ruled to protect doctors from being forced to share abortion records with the government.
—Idaho became the sixth state to consider murder charges for abortion patients.
—U.S. District Judge Adam B. Abelson temporarily halted the Trump administration’s termination of DEI programs.

… and more.

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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: For the first time in recent history, the percentage of top-grossing films featuring female protagonists equaled that of films with male protagonists; the use of antiquated voting systems in Canada and the U.S. is a major barrier to women winning; gearing up for the fourth annual Democracy Solutions Summit, March 4-6; women running for governor and Senate in 2024; Germany elected a new coalition government, and women lost ground in Parliament; growing tensions between Democratic governors and President Donald Trump; 41 state constitutions nationwide use exclusively male pronouns to reference an individual seeking or holding elected office; and more.

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By Angela Bonavoglia | Black Box Diaries is an extraordinary, Oscar-nominated and deeply relevant achievement by Shiori Ito, a first-time documentary filmmaker. As both a rape survivor and journalist, Ito spent five years creating a cinéma vérité record of what it took for her to take on a powerful man like Noriyuki Yamaguchi.

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As part of our Black History Month Rewind at Ms. Studios, we’re revisiting some of our favorite past episodes. In our final Rewind, we’re revisiting an episode we recorded in 2021, celebrating Juneteenth with the late Anita Pointer of the Pointer Sisters, and her brother Fritz. 

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