Weekly Digest | December 21, 2019
Letter from an Editor
We're almost through with the holiday season, and the forthcoming end of the year—and the decade!—has inspired a lot of looking back in the Ms. offices. We'll be rolling out pieces that look back at the progress and powerful moments that have defined 2019 and the last 10 years of this movement next week, including a comprehensive review of the 10 most popular posts we published on msmagazine.com this year. Below, I've given you a sneak peek of five of the 10 most-loved perspectives we published this year—and next week, I'll pass along the rest for further reading.
Happy holidays!
Carmen Rios
Managing Digital Editor
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This Week's Must-Reads from Ms.
The Ms. Q&A: Nancy Pelosi Emerges Victorious
"What I would say to women and girls here and around the world: Be not afraid. Be ready for whatever opportunities come along, and know how important your contribution is, because when women succeed, everyone succeeds."
Who’s Afraid of Harriet Tubman?
The disinformation about the casting, distribution and story itself left me wondering: Why are so many afraid of Harriet Tubman and her story? What could a story about a fearless and faith-driven disabled black woman who liberated herself from the pernicious jaws of chattel slavery and then returned 13 times to free more of her people before offering her services during the Civil War to help abolish slavery from this nation—freeing 750 slaves for her part in leading a military raid with black soldiers in the Combahee River Raid, the first woman in U.S. history to do so—what could that story do for so many of us who feel powerless in our current era of misinformation overload and rising white supremacy and misogyny?
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This is the Most Dangerous Moment in Donald Trump’s Cycle of Abuse
Trump’s current victim is the whole country—and, arguably, at this point, the entire planet. He has taken our national and international politics and culture on the same journey that millions of survivors across the world have walked. It is a painful and often dangerous journey. And just like for the many survivors who are experiencing violence in their relationships, there is a path forward beyond the abuse for America, but it is not easy, and it can be extremely dangerous. As we begin to navigate our escape as a country, it is helpful to understand Trump and his tactics for what they are: tactics of a perpetrator.
This is not where I expected to be in my mid-sixties. I launched into adulthood fueled by idealistic fervor and determination to right the wrongs of my parents’ generation. My generation fought for civil rights and spoke truth to power in unprecedented ways. Many of us envisioned a multi-cultural society defined by progressive values, and imagined that we’d leave the earth a better place than we found it. Instead, my unborn grandchildren will inherit a planet on the brink of extinction; a social order riven by hatred, polarity and lies; an America where mass shootings are commonplace, children live in cages and my Oakland neighbors live in ramshackle tent cities under the freeway.
It is a historical and current fact that there are systems—health care, education, housing—built on the belief of a racial hierarchy. But it’s not just institutionalized racism that’s to blame. Personally mediated racism, disrespectful care, not being listened to or valued—all of these things contribute to women, especially black women, dying in childbirth.
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