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Letter from an Editor | November 29, 2025
Dear John,
As you read this letter, I hope you are doing so surrounded by friends and family, perhaps enjoying a brief respite from work, or school, or daily life. Holidays are a wonderful time to gather, and community is all the more important in times like this, when so much is at stake and basic freedoms and rights feel so tenuous for so many of us.
We recognize that so much of what makes these holidays possible is the labor of women—whether that’s handling all the logistics of booking flights and travel, cooking meals, cleaning, or even facilitating discussions and smoothing over tricky family dynamics at the dinner table. This is not invisible labor—not to us.
Women often do this labor with little to no support from the systems that were meant to support them—as evidenced by the recent SNAP crisis. And as the fight over the Affordable Care Act tax credits continues, with callous Republican lawmakers whose health insurance isn’t at stake making decisions that could affect millions of Americans, I’m thinking about how women will be the ones who have to pick up the caregiving slack, should families no longer be able to afford insurance. Women are always picking up the slack. As Erum Naqvi writes in Ms. this week, “Caregiving is a beautiful act, rooted in security and love for others, but without real support, it becomes unsustainable.”
This long weekend, I’m feeling grateful for you: our readers, subscribers and supporters, who continue to show up and support feminist reporting year in and year out with your clicks, your voices, your attention—and your dollars. As you celebrate with your community, we hope you know that you are also a part of our community—a feminist community. A community that stretches across borders, generations and lifetimes. A community of resistance to attacks on our rights by authoritarians. And a community where we commit to sustaining each other even in times as challenging as these.
For equality,
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Kathy Spillar
Executive Editor
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