Today at Ms. | August 9, 2021

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What is the Legacy of the “Gender-Equal” Tokyo 2020 Games?

BY JENNIFER WEISS-WOLF | When the IOC announced last winter that Tokyo 2020 would be “the first gender-equal Olympic Games,” they were touting the near 50% representation of female athletes, an all-time high.

Now that the summer games have concluded, the IOC statement turned out to be prescient in other unexpected ways: fierce feminism has been on full display for the past two weeks as athletes boldly broke norms and pushed back against sexist protocols and practices.

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On Simone Biles, Black Women and the Space Between the Leap and the Land

BY BRITTNEY COOPER | “Simone Biles’s plight felt to me like both metaphor and matterphor for Black ascension—a kind of disorientation that attends to Black excellence, the discomfiture that comes in those fleeting moments, where having pulled off something great, you feel like you are on top of the world, and yet, curiously, terrifyingly, you also have no idea where you are in the air.”

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“I Felt My Village Raising Me”: How One Pan-African, Women-Led Group Is Securing Education for Girls

BY JUDITH MSINDO | “Poverty is an injustice that falls most heavily on girls. I know this to be a fact. And I fully believe that the best way to address this injustice is to invest in organizations that support the education of young women.”

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