Today at Ms. | November 26, 2021


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Pushed to be Betty Draper, I Was Always More Like Don [[link removed]]

BY SALLY EDELSTEIN | Despite growing up in the age of Mad Men, as a child, I was more like Don Draper than his wife Betty. At 16, it was in the pages of Ms . magazine that I realized I didn’t have to be either one.
Ms . gave me my first feminist click, that moment of recognition and I had a name for what I long felt. Feminism. Like their first cover girl, any one of us could be Wonder Woman. Or a cover girl. The pages were filled with women filmmakers, athletes, sculptors, writers, lawyers and activists. In time, I discovered I didn’t have to be someone I wasn’t in order to be who I was.
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With UNPLANNED PARENTHOOD, Feminist Artist Michelle Hartney Calls for Contraception Access for All [[link removed]]
BY CARMEN RIOS | At The Jane Club Wednesday, artist and activist Michelle Hartney talked about her collaborative installation fighting for birth control access and the power of reckoning with Margaret Sanger’s legacy.
“It’s so cruel to force pregnancy on people. These letters are testimony to that.”

Amazon’s Cinderella and Systemic Change: No More Patriarchy Means a Happy Ending For All [[link removed]]
BY ELLINE LIPKIN | In Amazon's Cinderella musical, Cinderella gets what she most wants because there is a radical shifting of structural power. The prince suddenly doesn’t have to marry for status, the queen is suddenly free to speak up and the king is suddenly understanding of how ridiculous gender bias is and anoints his daughter to be next in line.
If only in real life it were that simple.

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As the December oral arguments date for Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case fast approaches, all eyes are on the Supreme Court. But we’re wondering — what’s happening at the on the ground, at clinics that provide abortions and reproductive health services where persistent, even daily violence against patients and providers goes overlooked and under-addressed?
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