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Today at Ms. | November 18, 2021

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Michigan Lawmakers End the Tampon Tax: The Case for Bipartisan Period Legislation

BY MADISON GUSLER | Michigan has officially made menstrual products exempt from tax, joining several other states who have voided the tampon tax that disproportionately affects menstruators in many ways. What is unique to Michigan’s recent legislation is the bipartisan efforts made to have successful period legislation.

Michigan’s case is important and the bipartisan work can be seen as guidance for the future of the menstrual movement as challenges lay ahead.

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“White Torture”: Why We Must Oppose Solitary Confinement

BY NARGES MOHAMMADI | Narges Mohammadi, vice president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran, has been held in solitary confinement on and off from 1998 and 2020 for her human rights advocacy. On Tuesday night, Mohammadi was arrested by Iranian security forces during a ceremony honoring a victim of Iran’s deadly response to November 2019 protests. She was taken to the notorious Evin prison.

Since her release in October 2020, Narges has tried to draw attention to the practice of “white torture”—a form of solitary confinement—in Evin and other Iranian prisons. That is the topic of this article—the first she has written in English.

What Happens When the Law Fails Those Who Are Learning to Protect It?

BY GOWRI RAMACHANDRAN | When rights, especially those that sustain our equal citizenship, are stripped away, it is inevitably deeply upsetting to all those who believe in and rely on those rights. But it is a unique and profound loss for law students, who are also experiencing an attack on their nascent professional identities. They are relying on those rights to fulfill their dreams.

(Click here to read more from our special series in collaboration with the Brennan Center: "Abortion is Essential to Democracy")

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