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Today at Ms. | March 7, 2023
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‘I Am Erased!’: Afghan Women Leaders Urge International Community to Take Action [[link removed]]
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Fawzia Koofi receives the Casa Asia Award on Nov. 5, 2021 in Barcelona, Spain, in recognition for her work in favor of women’s rights in Afghanistan, for her role in the Doha peace talks, and for her commitment to the education of girls and women. (David Zorrakino / Europa Press via Getty Images)
BY JESSICA NEUWIRTH | As terrorist attacks escalate, Afghan women are again the canaries in the coal mine. Is anyone listening?
“How many times am I supposed to yell and scream and say, ‘World, pay attention to us—we are dying’?”
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‘Working 9 to 5’: A Firsthand Account of the Women’s Movement, Labor Union and Iconic Movie [[link removed]]
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BY ELEANOR J. BADER | Ellen Cassedy’s Working 9 to 5: A Woman’s Movement, A Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie , is part memoir, part political history and part prescriptive look at the ongoing challenges facing workers today. But as much as it acknowledges how much remains to be done to achieve racial and gender equity on the job, it also celebrates 9 to 5’s many successes.
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Rest in Power: Judy Heumann, a Tireless Organizer for Disability Rights [[link removed]]
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Left; Judy Heumann at the 2022 Women’s Entrepreneurship Day Organization Summit at United Nations on May 20, 2022, in New York City. (Chance Yeh / Getty Images) Right: Judith Heumann, advocate for disability rights and an official at Center for Independent Living, on May 15, 1980. (Vince Maggiora / San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)
BY SUSAN CUMINGS | On Sunday, March 4, the world lost a fierce, funny, tireless organizer for disability rights with the death of Judith Ellen “Judy” Heumann.
If you want to work for change, take her advice: “When other people see you as a third-class citizen, the first thing you need is a belief in yourself and the knowledge that you have rights. The next thing you need is a group of friends to fight back with.”
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In this episode, we’re thinking about the many ways in which girls and women in the U.S. are denied, passed over, and even cheated of opportunities they have earned. But, women can and do fight back—often by overachieving. How do we move ahead in light of social, political and other forces that hold women, girls, and those of other marginalized backgrounds back?
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