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Beyoncé accepts Best Dance/Electronic Music Album for Renaissance during the 65th Grammy Awards on Feb. 5 in Los Angeles. With 32 Grammy wins, Beyoncé has set a new record: most decorated artist in the awards’ history. But the ceremony failed to award her with Album of the Year, instead giving the award to Harry Styles. (Emma McIntyre / Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

BY JANELL HOBSON | There is a pattern here: Black women must ride on the coattails of protective manhood—a respected dad, a Hollywood white male “bodyguard”—to secure the top prize.

In a world that constantly tells women in general, and Black women specifically, that we just might be “imposters,” Beyoncé affirms us and allows us to luxuriate in a Black woman defiantly and truthfully announcing that “I’m the bar.” We revel in her excellence, even if some would try to diminish that greatness as “not good enough.”

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Vice President Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden and former President Bill Clinton walk to a White House event to mark the 30th anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act on Feb. 2, 2023. Some Democrats in Congress are calling on Biden to expand access to the FMLA by, in part, including a national 12-week paid family leave system as part of his proposed federal budget. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)

BY KIERSTEN STEWART and JENNIFER BECKER | The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) signed into law 30 years ago this week was the first time our country’s laws recognized that working people are also family caregivers and human beings who face illness themselves. But the FMLA was not enough, then or now.

Currently, leave is not available to people facing domestic and sexual violence if they need time off to go to court or seek other protections or support, which can cost them their jobs. Every state must consider adopting what is known as safe leave — leave for a worker subjected to sexual or domestic violence to seek a restraining order, relocate to safety, or take other protective measures — or help a close family member do so. This leave must also be paid.

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Laura Kina and her child at the #TransUpFront Trans Liberation march in Chicago on March 3, 2017. (Sarah-Ji / Love and Struggle Photos)

BY LAURA KINA | Already, 150 bills aimed at LGBTQ youth have been filed or introduced in 25 states, from restrictions on drag performances, to bans on pronouns teachers can use in the classroom, to mandates that schools ‘out’ trans students to their families.

As a multiracial queer mom to a nonbinary Jewish child, these issues are both personal and political. 

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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?

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