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Today at Ms. | July 21, 2025
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The U.S. Built Wealth Off Enslaved Women and Girls: Michele Goodwin on the History of Reproductive Injustice [[link removed]]
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By Carmen Rios | Goodwin, an expert in constitutional law and health policy, uncovers the reproductive health rights stories embedded in American history—and what they tell us about the future of our fight for reproductive freedom.
Listen to the second episode Ms. podcast, Looking Back, Moving Forward —”Inside the Feminist Fight to Reclaim Our Reproductive Freedom (with Renee Bracey Sherman, Michele Goodwin, Angie Jean-Marie and Amy Merrill, Susan Frietsche, and Gov. Maura Healey)”—on Spotify [[link removed]] , Apple Podcasts [[link removed]] or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Where There’s Fire, There Are Women Carrying Water [[link removed]]
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By S. Mona Sinha | The girl I was in Kolkata would not recognize the woman I am today.
I was a girl who noticed everything: the way women’s voices dropped around men, too hot to argue; the way dupattas were carefully wrapped to conceal bare shoulders; the way hair was yanked into tight buns to spare the neck from sweat.
There was heat in the body too, a restlessness, an impatience, a dawning awareness of what it meant to grow into a girl in a world already lined with expectations. Summers were when I first learned to shrink myself.
Decades later, I find myself in a different kind of heat. Not from the sun, but from the headlines: the rage, the lies, the erasure. This is the heat of 2025: Trumpism returned, democracy under siege, rights dismantled. Roe is gone. Truth is a moving target. Rage simmers, thick enough to choke on.
In these moments, I return to those childhood summers. Not just for the discomfort, but for the clarity. Because in heat, everything sharpens. You see what survives. You see what wilts. And you learn how to move through the world without losing your shape.
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What Happens When Law Enforcement Is the Threat? Immigrant Women Are Left With Nowhere to Turn [[link removed]]
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By Archi Pyati | The horrifying stories in the Ms. article, “Men Are Impersonating ICE to Attack Immigrant Women,” are not isolated incidents—they reflect a deeper, long-standing erosion of human rights and protections for immigrant communities. Immigrant women of color are disproportionately targeted and bear the brunt of the violence.
Immigrant survivors are more afraid than ever to seek help from the police or the courts. And these reports of violence committed by ICE impersonators and accounts of violence committed by real ICE and law enforcement officers—many of them now in plainclothes—show that immigrants have good reason to be afraid.
At the Tahirih Justice Center, where we serve immigrant survivors of domestic and sexual violence, we’ve seen firsthand for years the impact of dehumanizing language and actions by politicians and the media, leading to cruel policies and paralyzing fear that traps survivors in abuse. There’s no question that in the last six months, things have gotten much worse.
Now is the moment for all of us as citizens and neighbors to loudly declare that what’s happening to immigrants is unacceptable—whether through protest, contacting our representatives or walking with our immigrant neighbor as she takes her child to school so she’s not alone.
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In this episode of “Looking Back, Moving Forward,” host Carmen Rios traces the feminist fight for bodily autonomy — from Roe to Dobbs and beyond — and explores how feminists are organizing to defend and expand reproductive freedom in this challenging moment, and what lessons from the pages of Ms. can inform our fight forward.
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