Today at Ms. | September 10, 2021


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“The Women at Ground Zero”: Remembering the Women Erased from the 9/11 Story [[link removed]]

BY CHABELI CARRAZANA, THE 19TH | Brenda Berkman understands better than most the years-long fight it took to ensure women could even join the fire service and secure their spots among the first responders who served on 9/11 at ground zero.
“They were saying, ‘Well, there were no women firefighters killed there, and so, therefore, there weren’t any women there, or the women there were useless because they weren’t killed.’ It’s like we had to be killed doing our job.”


The Texas Ban and the Migration Injustice [[link removed]]
BY AMY REED-SANDOVAL | “Abortion migration” is when pregnant people travel long distances and cross internal and national borders to access abortion care. While the news out of Texas is extraordinarily alarming, both Texas women and pregnant people across the globe have long been traveling to places like Albuquerque to legally terminate pregnancies. Various forms of state and state-sanctioned power combine to coerce our movement in ways that threaten our dignity and equal standing.


Nurses Must Take the Lead on Mandatory COVID Vaccines for Health Care Workers [[link removed]]

BY PATRICK MCMURRAY | As new cases of COVID-19 continue to climb across the country, a polarizing spirited debate regarding mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for health care workers rages on social media.
It is unconscionable that nurses should openly reject proven vaccines against COVID-19 while allowing willfully unvaccinated nurses to continue to place people in their communities at risk.


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