Today at Ms. | September 14, 2021
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Most Women Oppose California’s Recall, Favor Newsom [[link removed]]
BY OLIVER HAUG | As California voters head to the polls Tuesday to determine whether Governor Gavin Newsom will keep his seat—and who will replace him, if he is voted out—a new poll indicates that Newsom maintains strong support among women voters in the state.
According to the Public Policy Institute of California, a full two-thirds of women voters (66 percent) are against the recall—a wide margin, compared to just 48 percent of men who are against it—in a significant, and potentially decisive 18 point gender gap. A 50 percent + 1 “NO” vote is required to defeat the recall.
What Happens Now that Everyone Has Left Afghanistan? Increase Feminist Funding Now [[link removed]]
BY DONYA NASSER | Too often, aid has been delivered on behalf of women and girls. They have been boxes to be checked off and their rights used as tools of trade between men in power. This must end now.
Feminist funders have been supporting local Afghan feminist groups for decades with long-term flexible funds toward urgent community needs and long-term rebuilding. We need to vastly increase this feminist funding that goes directly to local grassroots groups to use how they wish. We know this feminist funding model works, even under repressive regimes, and even in Afghanistan.
Travel Ban to North Korea: The “Abstinence-Only” of U.S. Foreign Policy [[link removed]]
BY COLLEEN MOORE | The Biden administration renewed a Trump-era ban on Americans traveling to North Korea, preventing humanitarian assistance to vulnerable populations.
The ban freezes the work many are doing to improve the situation on the ground in North Korea, and, like abstinence-only sexual education, ignores real solutions that have been proven to work.
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Feminists and Afghanistan experts warned of the brutal impact that would likely be felt by women and minorities with the return of the Taliban and in the vacuum of leadership. They were right. What does this mean for national security? The safety of women and girls? What are the geo-political dynamics yet to be sorted?
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