Today at Ms. | December 21, 2021


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Respectability Politics (and Joe Manchin) Are Killing Us [[link removed]]


BY JHUMPA BHATTACHARYA, SAADIA MCCONVILLE and STACEY RUTLAND | In a confounding move, Sen. Joe Manchin decided to derail the Build Back Better bill in a Fox News appearance Sunday night. It’s not difficult to prove how wrong Manchin and the 50 GOP senators opposed to Build Back Better are. But how do we enact progress when 51 people can stand in the way of what the majority of us want?
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Amnesty International Urges Aid for Afghan Women and Girls Subjected to Taliban Violence [[link removed]]
BY FEMINIST NEWSWIRE | Women and girl survivors of gender-based violence have essentially been abandoned in Afghanistan. Their network of support has been dismantled, and their places of refuge have all but disappeared.
Students Lead Charge to Fight Pollutant in Cosmetics Widely Used by Women [[link removed]]
BY BRYNNE O'HARE | After 18 months of fighting for clean air, Alexandra Collins thought that she could leave ethylene oxide behind. But then, she found that the pollutant is an ingredient in many cosmetics that women and girls use today. She combined her computer science skills and her advocacy work and partnered with a friend to create an app that reviews cosmetics products with the mission of keeping girls and women safe from the harms of EtO.

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Tune in for a new episode of Ms. magazine's podcast, On the Issues with Michele Goodwin on Apple Podcasts [[link removed]] + Spotify [[link removed]] .
On December 1, the Supreme Court held oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization —a case that some believe could overturn Roe v. Wade . The case involves a Mississippi abortion provision, banning most abortions after 15 weeks, with no exceptions for rape or incest. So, what’s at stake in Dobbs—both in terms of abortion rights, and in terms of the Supreme Court’s legitimacy?
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