Dear John,
As the new year approaches, we wish for peace, justice, and equality for all.
In the new year, we’re expecting great things from all the newly-elected feminists in Congress and governor’s offices and state legislatures across the country. Check out our list in the Winter 2023 issue of Ms. magazine. (If you’re not a member receiving the magazine, here’s your chance.)
Next year also marks a significant chapter in our own history: Here at Ms. we’ll be celebrating our 50th anniversary. As we enter this monumental year, we’re looking back at the past half-century of feminist reporting, rebelling and truth-telling—and we'll be looking forward to the next 50!
Members of the Ms. community will receive special invitations throughout the year, including to our special programming of in-person and virtual events. And you’ll receive early notice to be among the first to purchase our forthcoming book next fall, 50 Years of Ms.: the best of the pathfinding magazine that ignited a movement (from Alfred A. Knopf, a renowned division of Penguin Random House).
The book is a one-of-a-kind collection of the magazine’s most startling, audacious, and norm-breaking pieces on women, men, politics (sexual and otherwise), marriage, family, education, work, motherhood, and reproductive rights. Filled with iconic art, covers, photos, and letters to the editor, it also features a foreword from Ms. co-founding editor Gloria Steinem and contributions by bell hooks, Alice Walker, Pauli Murray, Nancy Pelosi, Billie Jean King, Ellie Smeal, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Alison Bechdel, Brittney Cooper and Joy Harjo, as well as fiction and poetry by Toni Morrison, Audre Lorde, Joyce Carol Oates, Adrienne Rich, Rita Dove and Sharon Olds, among many others. Sign-up here for notifications about the book and the many book events we are planning.
Above all, we want to thank you for being with us this year. Like I said last week, it’s been a hell of a year—but we’re ready for the next one!
Onward,
