Today at Ms. | August 18, 2021

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Feminist Leaders Implore Biden-Harris Administration: Don’t Abandon Afghan Women and Girls

BY ROXY SZAL | In a letter signed by almost 100 signatories, feminist leaders and advocates are urging the Biden-Harris administration “not to agree to a deal that includes recognition and support of a Taliban regime” and that “any deal by the United States that would include recognition and support of the Taliban regime would be a reversal of U.S. commitments that were made …” and would undermine the administration’s commitments to human rights globally.

Second, the letter urges the Biden administration to take immediate action to save the lives of Afghan “women’s rights and human rights leaders and advocates … who are now being targeted by the Taliban.”

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New York Is About to Get its First Woman Governor. Let’s Make Sure it’s Not Their Last.

BY CYNTHIA RICHIE TERRELL | Kathy Hochul’s ascension to the New York governorship is an historic moment for the state of New York and a small step in the right direction for the U.S. as a whole. But until the the entrenched structural barriers women face in politics are eliminated with systemic and intentional action, women’s representation at the gubernatorial level may be just as reliant on a male governor’s resignation as it is on a woman candidate’s qualifications.

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Women Behaving Badly: 400 Years of Power and Protest in Art

BY SHEILA WICKOUSKI | From Eve to Sojourner Truth, the Baltimore Museum of Art’s “Women Behaving Badly: 400 Years of Power and Protest” explores how women have been rebellious and revolutionary throughout history.

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The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games have been rife with controversy—from rulings targeting Black athletes like Sha’Carri Richardson, to COVID protests taking place just outside the stadium, to transphobia directed at the first openly trans athletes to ever compete on this highest international stage. Is the Olympics an uneven playing field?

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