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**Today at Ms. | June 10, 2022**

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White Masculinity and the January 6 Insurrection

Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as people try to storm the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C on January 6, 2021. (Brent Stirton / Getty Images)

BY JACKSON KATZ | While it is critically necessary to analyze the racial politics of January 6, this focus too often has the effect of rendering invisible another key aspect of that tragic event: the role of gender. The vast majority of insurrectionists were not only white people; they were white men.

Men—many of whom are conditioned from childhood to see themselves primarily as protectors and defenders—are the ones who respond most eagerly to pleas for them to help rescue their country, through violent means if necessary.

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Abortion Bans Are a Natural Outgrowth of Coercive Pronatalism

BY NANDITA BAJAJ | Contemporary attacks on reproductive rights are motivated by many things. Chief among them is a penchant for coercion, hostility to women’s autonomy and self-determination, and a desire to enforce our status as mothers first, and human beings a distant second.

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Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation: Primary Results Suggest Gains for Women in Congress; the Impact of Women Voters

BY CYNTHIA RICHIE TERRELL | Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation.

This week: European Union will require an “underrepresented gender” fill at least 40 percent of board seats; Women are on track to make gains in the U.S. Congress; Australia elected record numbers of women to Parliament in last month’s elections; the impact of women as voters; and more.

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