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Today at Ms. | December 12, 2022
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The Story of Iconic Feminist Dorothy Pitman Hughes: ‘With Her Fist Raised’ [[link removed]]
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Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes in 1971. (Smithsonian / Flickr)
BY CARRIE N. BAKER | Dorothy Pitman Hughes died on Sunday, Dec. 11. Her daughter, Delethia Ridley Malmsten, said the cause was old age. She was 84 years old.
“Dorothy defined herself as a feminist but rooted her feminism in her experience and in more fundamental needs for safety, food, shelter and child care,” says Laura Lovett, author of a new biography of Dorothy Pitman Hughes.
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‘Journey for Justice’: Immigrants and Advocates Begin 2,200-Mile Pilgrimage Across U.S.-Mexico Border [[link removed]]
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Left: A father and child sit on a ledge that flanks the barbed-wire former refugee encampment. Right: mother and son. (Sue-Ann Leigh Divito)
BY LUNA | Journey for Justice: Witness At The Border is an immigration justice pilgrimage made up of people hoping to enter the United States, as well as immigrant rights advocates. With the goal of highlighting injustices along U.S-Mexico border, the journey will cover over 2,000 miles and span over two weeks—from Dec. 2 until Dec. 18, ending on International Migrants Day.
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Congressional Leaders and Advocates Call on Senate to Clear the Way for the ERA [[link removed]]
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Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY). (Photo: Chrisi West, ERA Coalition)
BY OLIVER C. HAUG | As the end of the year and the end of Congress’s lame duck session approaches, congressional leaders and women’s rights advocates are calling on the Senate to vote to list the time limit in the preamble of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), thus officially recognizing the ERA as the 28th Amendment to the Constitution.
“[The ERA] would empower Congress to better enforce laws protecting women,” said Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY). “And as we see the constant effort to whittle away at rights for women, everything from choice, they are bulldozing our rights into the ground. [The ERA] would place gender equality in the Constitution, like [many other] countries of the world.”
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Iran is currently experiencing its largest civil rights movement since the 1979 revolution. Dr. Goodwin is joined by Dr. Parmis Khatibi and Dr. Yalda Hamidi to delve into the feminist uprising, sparked by the killing of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini—who died after being detained by the Iranian "morality police" for being improperly veiled.
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