Today at Ms. | September 17, 2021


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Student Activists Are Breaking the Silence on Period Poverty [[link removed]]

BY AUDIN LEUNG | Student activists in the “Free The Period” coalition have worked to introduce California Assembly Bill 367, the Menstrual Equity for All Act of 2021 — which has passed the state's Senate and Assemly, and currently sits on Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk.
Until menstrual products are as ubiquitous as toilet paper and talking about periods is normalized—the fight to #FreeThePeriod continues.

“Like We Do Not Exist”: Armenian Women Fight for Their Homeland [[link removed]]
BY OLIVIA KATRANDJIAN | In Nagorno Karabakh, Armenians are beginning to rebuild their democracy after military attacks from Azerbaijan and decades of political instability.
“I feel more responsible for my relatives, for people around me, for my homeland. I’m not just a woman, I’m an Armenian woman. I am a woman of Artsakh.”

In Indigenous Thriller “Night Raiders,” Danis Goulet Blends History, Sci-Fi, Legend and Reality [[link removed]]
BY AVIVA DOVE-VIEBAHN | An Indigenous sci-fi thriller, “Night Raiders” brings the painful history of Canada’s residential school system into a war-torn, eerily conceivable future.
Vivid and meticulous in its conceptualization and staging, the film delivers a poignant message about how and why we must heed the old stories. It is, at once, a sci-fi thriller and a stirring portrait of a mother and daughter—and the communities they carry with them—fighting against all odds to maintain a way of life and hope for the future.
(This is one in a series [[link removed]] of reviews from the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, during which Ms focused on films directed by women.)


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Dr. Goodwin is joined by Professor Dorothy Roberts to unpack Texas’ new abortion ban, the Supreme Court’s decision to let it stand, and what the legacies of legislative interference with reproductive decision-making and autonomy mean for women, people who can become pregnant, and for our American democracy.
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