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Today at Ms. | February 3, 2022
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Americans Are Entitled to Government That Truly Reflects Them. Let’s Start With the Supreme Court [[link removed]]
[link removed] [[link removed]]BY ELIZABETH HIRA | When one assesses who has seats at the table—predominantly wealthy white men—it is no surprise that the issues that matter to so many everyday Americans are not lifted up.
This won’t change unless the country collectively acknowledges the literal concentration of American power among white men, decides it is not ideal, and takes affirmative steps to remedy it. The Supreme Court is a great place to start.
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Telemedicine Abortion Provider Melissa Grant: “Abortion? Yeah, We Do That.” [[link removed]]
BY CARRIE BAKER | A range of telemedicine abortion providers are springing up in the U.S. in response to the removal of FDA restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone. Abortion provider carafem now offers telemedicine abortion in 11 states—Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Virginia and Vermont—plus the District of Columbia.
“We are crystal clear about what we do. Hence the tagline, ‘Abortion. Yeah, we do that,'” said Melissa Grant, carafem’s chief operations officer.
Sundance 2022: “Framing Agnes” Tells the Stories of Trans Lives Past and Present in Inventive, Captivating Documentary [[link removed]]
AVIVA DOVE-VIEBAHN | “Framing Agnes,” a documentary about transgender women and men who were interviewed in the 1960s as part of a ground-breaking UCLA gender health research project, is one of the most captivating documentaries I’ve seen in quite a while.
Directed by Chase Joynt, the doc uses the relatively well-known case of “Agnes,” a trans woman who worked the system to her advantage in order to receive surgeries that were usually denied to transgender patients, as a jumping off point.
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