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Oranous Koofi studies for a journalism class in her apartment in Tempe, Ariz., on Sept. 18, 2022. Koofi moved into university accommodations in May after a five-month stay at a hotel near campus. (Lisa Patel)

BY LISA PATEL | In all, 148 Afghan women who had been college students in Bangladesh ended up in the U.S. They were able to flee thanks to an extraordinary effort orchestrated by their university, private businesses and government officials across the world. Sixty-four of them arrived at Arizona State University last December—including Oranous Koofi, 25, who escaped Kabul with only her cell phone, and Masooma Ebrahimi, 25, a refugee for the second time in her life.

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BY ELEANOR J. BADER | Writer, disability-justice activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha knows that it’s possible for society to become more equitable. Piepzna-Samarasinha’s latest book, The Future Is Disabled: Prophesies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs, lays out a bare-bones agenda for what is needed to make the U.S. more socially just.

Piepzna-Samarasinha and Ms. contributor Eleanor J. Bader communicated about the book, the disability justice movement and the ways that activists can support each other in the fight for a more ecologically sustainable and humane social order.      

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BY CYNTHIA RICHIE TERRELL | Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and entertainment, in judicial offices and in the private sector in the U.S. and around the world—with a little gardening and goodwill mixed in for refreshment!

This week: the Democratic party has nominated more women of color than the Republican party; 25 women are running for governor in the upcoming midterms; women leaders in Malaysia—which ranks 142nd for women’s representation—have called for the introduction of gender quotas for political parties; and more.

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