Today at Ms . | January 11, 2021

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“A Prisoner of War Story:” The Life and Captivity of the Only Woman on Federal Death Row [[link removed]]

BY NATALIE SCHREYER | Barring a last-minute intervention, on Tuesday, Lisa Montgomery could become the first woman to be executed by the government in 68 years. “The structures of our society failed Lisa,” says her attorney Kelley Henry.

Gendered Violence and the Attack on the U.S. Capitol [[link removed]]

BY MONA LENA KROOK | "Among the many dramatic images emerging from the Jan. 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol, two in particular stand out to me as a scholar of gender and politics: a photo of Richard 'Bigo' Barnett with his feet up on a desk in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office, and a picture of Adam Johnson smiling and waving in the Capitol rotunda with the Speaker’s lectern tucked under his arm."

On the Ground in Georgia: A Much-Needed Message of Change [[link removed]]

BY NICOLE GUIDOTTI-HERNÁNDEZ | "On the same day we celebrated the monumental unseating of white wealth and supremacy with Warnock and Ossoff’s wins in the morning of Jan. 6. 2021, all hell broke loose in the nation’s capital at 2 p.m. ... We can celebrate Warnock and Ossoff’s victories at the same time that we hold accountable those who want to destroy the equality feminists and women of color have worked towards for centuries."

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