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Today at Ms. | January 27, 2023 |
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Amber Heard leaves after the jury announced a split verdict in favor of both Johnny Depp and Heard on their claim and counter-claim in the Depp v. Heard civil defamation trial in Fairfax, Va., on June 1, 2022. For years, Heard has accused Depp of psychological and physical violence and abuse, often triggered by drinking and drug use. (Evelyn Hockstein / AFP via Getty Images) |
BY DANIELLE BERNSTEIN | By 2018, Johnny Depp was bordering on irrelevancy—but he soon gained a tremendous fandom as a public trial unfolded, prompted by abuse allegations from his ex-wife Amber Heard. In December, Heard announced she would no longer be moving forward with her appeal because “cannot afford to risk an impossible bill—one that is not just financial, but also psychological, physical and emotional.”
Depp has paved a new path for accused men in search of cultural capital—and accomplished the very thing women throughout the ages have been baselessly accused of: leveraging victimhood to gain status. Depp, whose career was flailing, became not just a rallying cry for men’s rights and the supposed victimhood of being a successful, wealthy, white man in a changing world, but a newly hot commodity in Hollywood once again with a thriving fan base. (Click here to read more) |
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“Art activation” depicting mifepristone (left) and misoprostol (right). (Kylie Fly) |
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BY CARRIE N. BAKER | In honor of the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade on Sunday, Jan. 22, Swedish-American artist Michele Pred created a 50-foot snow drawing of the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol in a park nearby the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, where the film PLAN C about abortion pills premiered the next day. (Click here to read more) |
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BY REPRESENTWOMEN and CYNTHIA RICHIE TERRELL | Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation.
This week: Academy Award nominations used multi-winner, proportional ranked-choice voting; Columbia University names its first woman president; some members of the New York City Council continue to have questions about ranked-choice voting, despite its giving voters more voice and more choice; and more.
(Click here to read more) |
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Before Roe v. Wade, if you were in need of an abortion in Chicago, there was a number you could call, run by young women who called themselves Jane. They’d provide abortions to women who had nowhere else to turn. It was started by Heather Booth when she was 19 years old. In this episode, Booth joins Dr. Goodwin to discuss the history of the Jane Collective and the connections between our pre-Roe past and post-Roe future. Where do we go from here? We hope you'll listen, subscribe, rate and review today! |
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