Weekly Digest | January 11, 2020

Letter from an Editor

The news cycle revved up as soon as the new year started—and we did our best to keep up with it. We dug into recent headlines about the Equal Rights Amendment, amplified feminist perspectives from Iran in the midst of escalating political tension in the region and even opened up about the March sisters.

Here's to another year of reporting, rebelling and truth-telling.

Sincerely,

Carmen Rios
Managing Digital Editor

This Week's Must-Reads from Ms.

Iranian Feminist Narges Mohammadi is in Danger

"What keeps me on my feet in this prison, while my body bruised and wounded, is my love for the honorable, but tormented, people of this country, and my ideals of justice and freedom. To honor the innocent people’s blood shed atrociously, I pledge to speak the truth, defy tyranny and defend the oppressed until my last breath."

The Trump Administration’s DOJ Won’t Have the Last Word on the Equal Rights Amendment

The issuing this week of the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel’s opinion on the arbitrary timeline on the Equal Rights Amendment is not binding. In fact, the timeline in the preamble of the ERA itself is not binding.

Another Possible Casualty in Iran: Feminism

As a result of this latest act of terror initiated by the U.S., feminist groups—including those working on women’s rights as well as human rights—are now facing a larger threat than ever before. This threatens to undo a decades long feminist struggle.

An Ode to Amy March

After my own viewing of Little Women ended, I sat in the Cinemark with a very wet face while the two women behind me began dissecting what they’d seen. That Amy. She is irredeemable! Who would act that way? I did, and sometimes still do.

Five Feminist Moments from the 2020 Golden Globes

"I’ve tried my very best to live a life of my own making, and not just a series of events that happened to me. But one that I could stand back and look at and recognize my handwriting all over. Sometimes messy and scrawling, sometimes careful and precise. But one that I had carved with my own hand. And I wouldn’t have been able to do this without employing a woman’s right to choose—to choose when to have my children and with whom, when I felt supported and able to balance our lives as all mothers know that the scales must and will tip towards our children."

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