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Today at Ms. | August 5, 2022
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Gender Parity Index 2022: Women Continue to Break Records—But We Must Break Down Barriers [[link removed]]
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BY ALISSA BOMBARDIER SHAW and STEPH SCAGLIA | RepresentWomen’s Gender Parity Index (GPI), which weighs women’s representation at the national, state and local levels, shows how incremental and sporadic progress for gender balance truly is. According to this year’s Index, there are no states that have reached gender parity — a basement metric if we’re to call ourselves a truly reflective 21st century democracy. A majority of states earned a “D” grade for women’s representation in government, further proving that we are not even close to fully cheering “shattered ceilings” or taking victory laps for national “broken records.”
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SCOTUS Claims Abortion Proponents Are Motivated by Eugenics and Eliminating the ‘Unfit’—But History Says Otherwise [[link removed]]
BY SHOSHANNA EHRLICH | Tucked away in a footnote of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court proclaims that some “proponents of liberal access to abortion…have been motivated by a desire to suppress the size of the African American population.” It thus implies that overturning Roe v. Wade will turn the tide away from this genocidal impulse.
But history tells a different story.
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‘P-Valley’ and the Black Lives Behind Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization [[link removed]]
BY JANELL HOBSON | Memphis native and award-winning playwright Katori Hall has a way with words. So, it is a great privilege to witness her expert wordsmithing and showmanship as the showrunner for Starz’s critically acclaimed P-Valley, a series that follows the lives of those who work for, in, and around the strip club joint The Pynk, an oasis of fun, pleasure and complicated sex work in the fictional town of Chucalissa, Miss.
“We felt it our responsibility to depict the war on Black women’s bodies raging in this conservative state,” said Katori Hall, creator of Starz’s P-Valley.
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After a Supreme Court term unlike any other in nearly a century, confidence in what was once a revered body has sunk to a historic low. On the latest episode, we’re recapping the recently ended Supreme Court term—exploring a slate of critical rulings that will have wide-ranging impacts from abortion access to climate change and beyond.
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