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Today at Ms. | September 4, 2025
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Mayoral Candidates Tout Plans—But Feminist Infrastructure Is What New Yorkers Need [[link removed]]
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By Maya Morozov | Frantic, I keep checking my phone for the arrival of the New York City public bus I am waiting for. It finally arrives, 10 minutes after the scheduled time, meaning I will be late for school. With each stop it makes, the bus fills with students like me and people heading to work. Women and toddlers also board in force, lugging more baby strollers than I can count. As the strollers pile up, I scan the bus, wondering how many more can possibly fit. It is a Jenga-like ordeal, and I overhear a group of caregivers confidently affirm how five strollers can be tilted, folded and configured to fit in the bus.
This is the silent role public infrastructure plays in action. Infrastructure greets us on our daily commute, provides livable spaces for us outside, shepherds kids to and from school. Infrastructure is fundamental to our well-being as citizens, essential to a functioning democracy. And to work for all of us, it must be considered through a feminist lens.
Urban infrastructure loomed large in the New York City mayoral primary in June and will continue to be a major discussion point through the general election in November. I can’t help but question who is making decisions about urban transportation infrastructure and the people who use it.
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‘I’m Not Going to Tolerate Being Treated as a Second-Class Citizen’: Carol Moseley Braun Isn’t Giving Up on the Fight for Constitutional Equality [[link removed]]
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By Carmen Rios | “The expectation of equality is the most important cultural thing that we can achieve, and we have to keep holding up that light.”
Carol Moseley Braun became the first Black woman elected to the Senate after her involvement in the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. In the fifth and final episode of Looking Back, Moving Forward , more than 40 years later, she asked a simple question: “Why haven’t we gotten this right yet?”
Listen to the latest episode of Looking Back, Moving Forward , “The Feminist Fight For The Equal Rights Amendment Is Far From Over—and More Urgent Than Ever (with Pat Spearman, Ellie Smeal, Carol Moseley Braun, Kathy Spillar, and Ting Ting Cheng)” on Spotify [[link removed]] , Apple Podcasts [[link removed]] or wherever you get your podcasts.
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How Texas Abortion Restrictions Are Driving Doctors Away: ‘By Following the Law, I Was Doing the Wrong Thing Medically’ [[link removed]]
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By Bonnie Fuller | Texas’ abortion bans have driven hundreds of physicians to leave the state, retire early, or avoid practicing and training there altogether. Dr. Lou Rubino is one of many doctors forced out, unable to provide not only abortion care but also life-saving emergency treatment.
“I remember very clearly the moment I knew I was done. I could no longer practice as a women’s healthcare doctor in Texas.
“I had a patient, probably 18 or 19 years old. I was doing an ultrasound, and she told me she needed an abortion for her safety. She said, ‘I’m too young. I don’t feel safe with my partner. I’m scared. I need an abortion.’
“When a patient tells me they feel unsafe with a partner, I take that very seriously. Pregnant people are at high risk of harm from abusive partners. It’s a dangerous time. She knew what she needed, and I knew it was wrong for me to say no. … I asked myself: Am I the kind of doctor who does the wrong thing? I’m not. And Texas couldn’t force me to be.
“Not long after, my husband and I moved to Virginia, where I now practice.”
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The fifth and final episode of Looking Back, Moving Forward illustrates the power of the ERA’s promise, and how the fight for constitutional equality is connected to the issues we’ve explored in our previous installments—women’s political power, reproductive freedom, economic justice and the struggle to end gender-based violence. Experts and advocates share what they’ve learned in 50-plus years of ERA activism, and how they’re fighting forward for full equality at the state and national level.
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