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Today at Ms. | April 22, 2025
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We Will Reach Over 1 Million Women in Prison Worldwide if Action Is Not Taken [[link removed]]
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By Sabrina Mahtani | With far-right agendas gaining traction, anti-rights movements growing and attacks on women’s rights intensifying, the escalating use of the law as a weapon against women—such as through the criminalization of abortion—serves as a stark call for collective action.
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The Ghost of Jim Crow Haunts Trump’s War on Public Education [[link removed]]
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By Karida Brown | As Trump moves to dismantle the Department of Education, echoes of Jim Crow remind us what happens when states are left to decide who deserves an education—and who doesn’t.
Programs like Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare and the GI Bill exist because certain rights are too fundamental to be left to the whims of individual states or marketplaces. Education is one of them.
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‘Feminism, Fascism and the Future’: Sociologist Laurie Essig on Dissolving Democracies in Russia and the U.S. [[link removed]]
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By Felicia Kornbluh | Sociologist and author Laurie Essig has decades of experience studying and visiting Russia (and before that, the Soviet Union). Her first book, Queer in Russia, chronicles and analyzes the time between the dissolution of the USSR and the solidification of Putin’s non- (or anti-)democratic rule in Russia.
As Trump’s second term intensifies anti-gender rhetoric, sociologist Laurie Essig draws chilling parallels between rising U.S. authoritarianism and decades of state-sponsored repression in Putin’s Russia.
“One of the things we can learn from Russia is just how important resistance is. There were moments when things could have gone differently. They didn’t, but I don’t think that was pre-ordained. …
“Every strongman, every dictator we look at, had anxiety about masculinity.”
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In this episode of On the Issues with Michele Goodwin, Yamani Yansá Hernandez—CEO of the Groundswell Fund—joins Goodwin to discuss her journey from grassroots organizing to philanthropy, and what it means to fund reproductive, racial and gender justice through an intersectional lens.
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