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Today at Ms. | March 4, 2025
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‘Anora’ Took Hollywood by Storm. Here’s What It Says About Power, Class and Sex. [[link removed]]
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By Susan Bordo | Sean Baker’s Anora invites our capacities for feelings, not judgment, to accompany one young, female sex worker through a few roller-coaster, genre-defying weeks in her life. Like all of Sean Baker’s films, it refuses an ending that tells us what to think. It doesn’t tie things up and lead us to a morally unambiguous conclusion but to the perfect, emotionally right one. And the magic of it is that it does it without much being said.
While the comic parts of the movie, like classic screwball comedies, are full of characters whose talk bumps into each other, jostling for our attention and laughter, the last movement has hardly any dialogue at all. And it will stay with you for a long time.
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Trump’s War on Education: A Week-by-Week Timeline of Cuts, Bans and Rollbacks [[link removed]]
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By Hechinger Report | Since taking office Jan. 20, President Donald Trump has unleashed a flurry of orders and actions designed to reshape the federal government’s role in education. The agency has also begun laying off employees, including in its Office for Civil Rights. At the same time, the Trump administration is attempting to redefine what the federal government considers discrimination in schools and on college campuses.
We’ve compiled these actions below and will update this list as Trump’s second term unfolds.
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Who Wins Oscars? Women Who Package Their Pain Just Right [[link removed]]
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By Janell Hobson | In movie roles, we want women—even when they are tough or funny or sassy—to always be vulnerable, to open themselves up to our judgment and our sympathy.
From Anora to Enilia Perez to Wicked, this year’s Oscars reflect what we value in women’s performances.
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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.
We hope you'll listen, subscribe, rate and review today!
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