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Today at Ms. | March 7, 2022
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Vladimir Putin, Right-Wing American Masculinity and the Russian Attack on Ukraine [[link removed]]
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BY JACKSON KATZ | The Russian invasion of Ukraine, masterminded and led by Putin, is an act of premeditated military aggression and mass violence. One critical element of the story—especially as it concerns the role of the U.S. in this debacle—continues to lurk just beneath the surface of mainstream political analysis: the ways in which white male identity politics has helped to shape the American right’s confused and sometimes counterintuitive responses to the Russian attack.
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Do We Really Understand Microaggressions? [[link removed]]
BY RASHA DIAB and BETH GODBEE | In recent years and especially since summer 2020, in the aftermath and reckoning of George Floyd’s murder, the term “microaggression” has become commonplace. But, as the term has traveled widely, it has been misunderstood, flattened, contested, co-opted and weaponized. As with other terms created to name conditions of injustice, “microaggression” has been both watered down and blamed for watering down the harms it attempts to name.
We’re now at a moment when the word feels too sanitized, too safe and too small. The number of times we’ve turned to each other and exclaimed: “No microaggression I’ve ever faced felt micro. It’s aggression, plain and simple!”
March 2022 Reads for the Rest of Us [[link removed]]
BY KARLA J. STRAND | Each month, I provide Ms. readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups. March and April are historically big months for new book releases, and this year is no exception. I’ve narrowed down a list of hundreds of books to 36 this month. In addition to some compelling fiction, there’s imperative nonfiction, memoirs and debuts.
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President Biden has announced Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the nominee to succeed Justice Stephen Breyer on the United States Supreme Court. Who is she? What’s her background? And why is she one of the most qualified and prepared nominees that this process has seen in nearly a century? New from our "Road to Confirmation" series: We unpack Judge Jackson’s qualifications and examine what’s next in the process.
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