Today at Ms. | May 20, 2021

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I Already Know the Impact of Texas’s Abortion Ban—I Lived It [[link removed]]

BY MIRANDA | This week, Republican lawmakers in Texas prioritized a bill that would ban all abortions in Texas if Roe v. Wade was to be overturned. The reality is that we already know what happens when Texas bans abortion—the difficulty I faced trying to get an abortion during the pandemic shows how precarious our access already is.

There Has Never Been a Black Woman Governor. Will Virginia Change That? [[link removed]]

BY AMANDA BECKER | Former state delegate Jennifer Carroll Foy is picking up high-profile endorsements from groups that support women and people of color, including Higher Heights. But the Democratic primary hasn’t been easy. “I am not here to ask the patriarchy for permission,” she told her supporters. “I will not wait my time and I will damn well never wait for permission.”

For Equality, Loretta Ross Argues We ‘Call In,’ Not ‘Call Out’: “There’s Too Much Infighting in the Feminist Movement” [[link removed]]

BY CARRIE N. BAKER | Longtime feminist activist Loretta Ross has a solution for the counterproductive public shaming that takes place in social justice movements—she calls on us to try “calling in.” “There’s too much infighting in the feminist movement,” Ross told Ms. “We’re too vulnerable. Our weaknesses become our opponents’ opportunities.”

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