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Today at Ms. | August 17, 2022

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It’s Not Just the Supreme Court—It’s the Fossil Fuel Industry, Too [[link removed]]

Activists rally near the U.S. Capitol on July 6, 2022. The group Climate Action Campaign organized the rally to protest against the Supreme Court’s decision in West Virginia v. EPA, which limits the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate carbon emissions from power plants. (Drew Angerer / Getty Images)

BY NALLELI COBO | Decades of public health impacts have shown us that communities who struggled to access reproductive healthcare, even before Roe v. Wade ‘s repeal, are the same ones who have faced decades of environmental racism and injustice.

I am one of these millions of people who grew up on the frontlines of urban oil extraction, which presents serious dangers to our health. I can no longer determine my reproductive future—but I can still use my voice so others may decide their own.

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I’m Autistic and Got a Tubal Ligation. The Overturn of Roe v. Wade Will Hurt Disabled People like Me [[link removed]]

BY RED ROSENBERG | I am autistic and, at the age of 21, after a year of fighting for it, I successfully underwent tubal ligation surgery. Here’s why I did it—and why the Court’s decision to overturn Roe will ultimately hurt other disabled and neurodivergent women and nonbinary people like me.

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Rest in Power: Urvashi Vaid, the Queer Movement’s Legendary Firebrand [[link removed]]

BY LORRI L. JEAN | There has never been a queer leader like Urvashi Vaid. Until her death of metastatic breast cancer on May 14 at age 63, she spent the better part of five decades fighting injustice. At her passing, the LGBTQ community mourned—as did countless others dedicated to important fights for women’s and civil rights.

“The lesbian agenda is the reconstruction of families, the reimagining of power, the reorganization of the economic system, the reinforcement of civil rights and dignity for all people, the end of the oppression of women, the end of racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, the reestablishment of a proper relationship to our environment," Vaid said during a 1991 speech she gave at the National Lesbian Conference in Atlanta.

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