The deadly misogyny of the men’s rights movement | federal officers are pepper spraying and detaining protesters in Portland | looking back at the fight for the 19th Amendment in New Mexico
Today at Ms. | July 27, 2020
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Misogyny, Murder and the Men’s Rights Movement
BY CARRIE N. BAKER | The anti-feminist men’s rights movement advocates for a male supremacist ideology, and is described as “a thinly veiled desire for the domination of women and a conviction that the current system oppresses men in favor of women.” No one is safe from violent misogyny. Toxic masculinity kills.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown: “Trump Needs to Get His Officers Off the Streets”
BY MARISSA TALCOTT | Since their arrival in Portland, federal officers deployed by the Department of Homeland Security have attacked demonstrators with batons and tear gas, detained protesters in unmarked vans and threatened the safety of numerous Portlanders.
Suffrage in Spanish: Hispanic Women and the Fight for the 19th Amendment in New Mexico
BY CATHLEEN D. CAHILL | "New Mexico’s Hispanic women’s advocacy of suffrage and their work with the National Woman’s Party reminds us that Spanish was also a language of suffrage. Armed with economic security and the political clout of long-established Spanish-speaking families, New Mexico’s Hispanic women represented a formidable political force."
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