Today at Ms. | August 27, 2021

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The Threat Facing Women Journalists in Afghanistan: “Left High and Dry”

BY JULIET SCHULMAN-HALL | With the Taliban taking control of towns and villages in Afghanistan, women—especially female reporters—have been put in a precarious and extremely dangerous position.

“We don’t know how long female journalists in Afghanistan have left, and it’s just awful to contemplate how they’ve been really left high and dry.”

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Could Queer-Inclusive Sex Ed Halt Trans Homicides? Advocates Say Yes

BY KATE SOSIN | For years, national advocates have pushed for federal legislation that would mandate queer-inclusive sex ed. As transgender homicides surge, experts say teaching kids that an attraction to transgender people is okay could curb the crisis.

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The Weekly Pulse: The Fight for Abortion Rights Continues; The Problem with Booster Shots

BY KRISTEN BATSTONE | In this edition: The Fifth Circuit Court upholds Texas’s 15-week D&E abortion procedure ban; Arizona sued by reproductive rights groups and physicians over new abortion law; Planned Parenthood sues Montana over 20-week abortion ban; unvaccinated pregnant women are dying from COVID-19 at an alarming rate; and when it comes to booster shots, is it ethical to disburse a third round of vaccines in wealthy countries when the rest of the world is struggling to catch up?

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The recent rise in documented anti-Asian violence has raised questions about the current status of Asian American identity and safety in the U.S. How does “Asian” fit into the American racial taxonomy, which has for so long relied on a dichotomy of Black and white?

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