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Today at Ms. | October 27, 2022
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#MeToo, Five Years Later [[link removed]]
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A #MeToo march in Baltimore, Md., on Jan. 20, 2018. The #MeToo movement has made tremendous strides over the last five years, but much more remains to be done. (Elvert Barnes Protest Photography / Wikimedia Commons)
BY CARRIE N. BAKER | In the five years since it took off like wildfire, the #MeToo campaign has made widespread sexual abuse in the U.S. visible for the first time and inspired a record number of sexual harassment lawsuits against employers. It exposed how our decades-old workplace anti-harassment laws were outdated and often ineffective. In the last five years, 22 states and the District of Columbia passed more than 70 workplace anti-harassment bills in the last five years—many with bipartisan support.
Even still, U.S. rape culture persists and creates an environment where women and girls are disbelieved, survivors are discouraged from reporting abuse, and male abusers are forgiven—or even rewarded—for sexually abusive behavior. Congress must do more.
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Walking Through the Red Zone: The Reality of Campus Sexual Violence [[link removed]]
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Stanford University students carry signs during graduation ceremonies in Palo Alto, California, on June 12, 2016. (GABRIELLE LURIE/AFP via Getty Images)
BY BELLA T. FONG | Centering the voices and needs of students and survivors, Every Voice Coalition is addressing systemic gaps in higher education’s approach to handling campus sexual violence.
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Iconic Book ‘Our Bodies Ourselves’ Goes Digital [[link removed]]
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BY JACKIE ABRAMIAN | In September, Our Bodies, Ourselves went digital as Our Bodies Ourselves Today (OBOS Today)—a definitive knowledge hub for trusted, peer-reviewed information from a feminist perspective, with content by over 100 experts.
“We are living in an era where our civil rights and human rights are being taken away from us—not only the right to abortion in many states but also the right to talk about it,” said Amy Agigian, director of OBOS Today.
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Dr. Goodwin is joined by experts Danielle Citron and Jackie Rotman to tackle the issues women face in online spaces — from privacy to misogyny to censorship of women who use their voices to speak out, and more. How are women taking on the tech platforms and fighting back in the face of online harassment, discrimination and censorship?
We hope you'll listen, subscribe, rate and review today!
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