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All families deserve to be food-secure—not just at the holidays, but every day of the year. It’s time for comprehensive policies to end hunger.
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More Than a Holiday Wish: Ending Hunger in America
Leaders can move us toward ending the feminization of poverty. Then all families will always be food-secure — not just at the holidays.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
All families deserve to be food-secure—not just at the holidays, but every day of the year. It’s time for comprehensive policies to end hunger.
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Now is not the time to stay silent, even if it’s more comfortable to do so.
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How to Have Effective Conversations About Abortion at Family Gatherings
How to have effective conversations and talk about abortion at family gatherings this holiday season – Thanksgiving and Christmas
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November 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Now is not the time to stay silent, even if it’s more comfortable to do so.
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As we consider history and its place in our schools, it is important to ask: How do state-mandated history standards represent Indigenous peoples in social studies education?
Where Are the Voices of Indigenous Peoples in the Thanksgiving Story?
The Thanksgiving story taught in U.S. schools neglects Indigenous and Native Americans whose lands were invaded by Europeans and Pilgrims.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
As we consider history and its place in our schools, it is important to ask: How do state-mandated history standards represent Indigenous peoples in social studies education?
#OutofOfficeforCare invites employees to set their “OOO” automated email replies to accurately reflect the array of care responsibilities that pull them away from work—and then share those messages publicly.
Are We Ever Off Work, or Just Out of Office? The OOO Messages Exposing America’s Care Crisis
“I just gave birth. I’ll be back at work in a couple weeks”: Out-of-office messages show caregiving responsibilities of U.S. moms and daughters
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November 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
#OutofOfficeforCare invites employees to set their “OOO” automated email replies to accurately reflect the array of care responsibilities that pull them away from work—and then share those messages publicly.
As FACE enforcement collapses, antiabortion groups are gearing up to launch a new wave of coordinated clinic blockades.
Antiabortion Militants Open Training Facility in Memphis, Aim to Restart Large-Scale Clinic Blockades
As FACE enforcement collapses, anti abortion groups are gearing up to launch a new wave of coordinated clinic blockades.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
As FACE enforcement collapses, antiabortion groups are gearing up to launch a new wave of coordinated clinic blockades.
@jessmichaelsspeaks.bsky.social joined @michelebgoodwin.bsky.social to discuss her experience as a survivor, her work as an advocate, and what the public should know about sexual violence as news about Epstein and his connections to powerful men and women continues to come to light.
On Surviving Epstein—Part I (with Jess Michaels)
In this episode, Dr. Michele Goodwin is joined by Jessica Michaels, a sexual assault awareness advocate and Epstein survivor.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
@jessmichaelsspeaks.bsky.social joined @michelebgoodwin.bsky.social to discuss her experience as a survivor, her work as an advocate, and what the public should know about sexual violence as news about Epstein and his connections to powerful men and women continues to come to light.
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Jess Michaels joined On the Issues to discuss what survivors want the public to know about sexual violence as news about Epstein and his connections continues to come to light.
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On Surviving Epstein—Part I (with Jess Michaels)
In this episode, Dr. Michele Goodwin is joined by Jessica Michaels, a sexual assault awareness advocate and Epstein survivor.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Jess Michaels joined On the Issues to discuss what survivors want the public to know about sexual violence as news about Epstein and his connections continues to come to light.
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Indigenous women of numerous Native nations had rights and sovereignty long before European settlers arrived on these shores.
How Native American Women Inspired the Women’s Rights, Suffrage Movement
Indigenous women had rights, sovereignty and integrity before European settlers arrived. Native American women gave suffragists the ammunition they needed.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Indigenous women of numerous Native nations had rights and sovereignty long before European settlers arrived on these shores.
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In an op-ed for Ms. Magazine, #CUNYSPH PhD student and adjunct professor Ira Memaj writes that efforts “to restrict access to basic nutrition by tightening eligibility and slashing SNAP benefits is fundamentally an issue of feminist and reproductive justice.”
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A Hunger for Justice: Why SNAP Cuts Are a Feminist Public Health Issue
Amid a federal shutdown, Black and brown women-led families face hunger. Political leaders use food assistance and SNAP to control.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
In an op-ed for Ms. Magazine, #CUNYSPH PhD student and adjunct professor Ira Memaj writes that efforts “to restrict access to basic nutrition by tightening eligibility and slashing SNAP benefits is fundamentally an issue of feminist and reproductive justice.”
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RFK Jr.’s HHS is spreading anti-vaccine sentiment as the CDC continues to publish biased, illegitimate studies.
What to Know About the CDC’s Baseless New Guidance on Autism
RFK's HHS is spreading anti-vaccine sentiment as the CDC continues to publish biased, illegitimate studies about autism and childhood shots.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
RFK Jr.’s HHS is spreading anti-vaccine sentiment as the CDC continues to publish biased, illegitimate studies.
Wisconsin has shown that it’s cost-effective and completely possible to keep families together by stabilizing their housing. That’s not the only promising development in the field. #MsReads via @thenation.com
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This Is How the Child Welfare System Becomes Less Traumatizing
Wisconsin has shown that it’s cost-effective and completely possible to keep families together by stabilizing their housing. That’s not the only promising development in the field.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Wisconsin has shown that it’s cost-effective and completely possible to keep families together by stabilizing their housing. That’s not the only promising development in the field. #MsReads via @thenation.com
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Domestic violence survivors teach us that we need systems that hold abusers accountable.
Survivors Know the Signs of Abuse—And Marjorie Taylor Greene Finally Sees Them in Trump
Survivors of Domestic Abuse Know the Signs of Abuse—And Marjorie Taylor Greene Finally Sees Them in President Donald Trump
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November 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Domestic violence survivors teach us that we need systems that hold abusers accountable.
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"the only way to win against these forces that are aligned against justice is to come together.”
you can listen to my full interview with yoruba richen, the producer and director of #freejoanlittle, in a new *bonus episode!* of looking back, moving forward.
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you can listen to my full interview with yoruba richen, the producer and director of #freejoanlittle, in a new *bonus episode!* of looking back, moving forward.
tune in @msmagazine.com!
Free Joan Little: Inside the New Documentary Exploring a Historic Self-Defense Case—and the Intersectional Activist Movement it Inspired (with Yoruba Richen)
Meet the Voices Yoruba Richen, an award-winning documentary filmmaker and the director and producer of Free Joan Little. Follow her on Instagram and Facebook. And your host, Carmen Rios, feminist supe...
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November 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
"the only way to win against these forces that are aligned against justice is to come together.”
you can listen to my full interview with yoruba richen, the producer and director of #freejoanlittle, in a new *bonus episode!* of looking back, moving forward.
tune in @msmagazine.com!
you can listen to my full interview with yoruba richen, the producer and director of #freejoanlittle, in a new *bonus episode!* of looking back, moving forward.
tune in @msmagazine.com!
“Telling my mother isn’t an option at all. Not now. Not when I turn eighteen. Not ever.”
Novel ‘Truth Is’ Shows What It Really Takes for a Teen to Get an Abortion in 2025
Excerpt from Hannah V. Sawyerr's novel Truth Is: "When Truth learns she's pregnant she makes a decision she's sure about: an abortion."
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November 24, 2025 at 9:59 PM
“Telling my mother isn’t an option at all. Not now. Not when I turn eighteen. Not ever.”
Last week, what could have become the most punitive abortion law in the U.S. failed in the South Carolina Senate. But a recent arrest points to a larger problem in the Palmetto State.
A Bill Criminalizing Abortion Failed in the South Carolina Senate, but Prosecutors Have Been Doing It for Decades
A Bill Criminalizing Abortion Failed in the South Carolina Senate, but Prosecutors Have Been Punishing Pregnant Women for Decades
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November 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Last week, what could have become the most punitive abortion law in the U.S. failed in the South Carolina Senate. But a recent arrest points to a larger problem in the Palmetto State.
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"They are being mandated by the states in which they’re practicing to act in violation of their obligations to their patients."
Read our partners at @P4HR on the impact of abortion bans across entire healthcare systems. msmagazine.com/2025/11/18/a...
Read our partners at @P4HR on the impact of abortion bans across entire healthcare systems. msmagazine.com/2025/11/18/a...
Dobbs Has Triggered Widespread Discrimination in Non-Reproductive Healthcare
Physicians across specialties—from oncology to dermatology—report that abortion bans are undermining patient care.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
"They are being mandated by the states in which they’re practicing to act in violation of their obligations to their patients."
Read our partners at @P4HR on the impact of abortion bans across entire healthcare systems. msmagazine.com/2025/11/18/a...
Read our partners at @P4HR on the impact of abortion bans across entire healthcare systems. msmagazine.com/2025/11/18/a...
"Access is a fragile currency in Washington; solidarity is too often spent last. But women in journalism have never had the luxury of silence, and they will not begin now."
Trump’s War on Women Journalists Reveals His Fear of Truth
Trump’s War on Women Journalists Reveals His Fear of Truth: “Quiet! Quiet, piggy.” We will keep telling the truth about Trump and Epstein.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"Access is a fragile currency in Washington; solidarity is too often spent last. But women in journalism have never had the luxury of silence, and they will not begin now."
The law requires school employees to use names and pronouns that conform to students’ sex at birth. #MsReads via @texastribune.org
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Texas public schools “deadname” kids under new state law
The law requires school employees to use names and pronouns that conform to students’ sex at birth.
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November 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
The law requires school employees to use names and pronouns that conform to students’ sex at birth. #MsReads via @texastribune.org
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"When historians look back on this sordid moment in history, they will conclude that it was women, and feminists, who led the way out of it."
The Resistance Is Everywhere
Kathy Spillar's speech at the Feminist Majority Foundation (publisher of Ms. magazine) Global Women's Rights Awards, Nov. 18, in Los Angeles
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November 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
"When historians look back on this sordid moment in history, they will conclude that it was women, and feminists, who led the way out of it."
For Nicole, “it feels like I’m just working to survive. Budgeting is a constant struggle because you can’t budget money you don’t have.”
Read more about how SNAP and guaranteed income support families in this month’s “Front & Center.”
Read more about how SNAP and guaranteed income support families in this month’s “Front & Center.”
‘I’m Working Just to Survive’: A Single Mom on SNAP Cuts, Two Jobs and Big Dreams
‘I’m Working Just to Survive’: Single Mom in Jackson, Mississippi, on SNAP Cuts, Two Jobs, Big Dreams, Guaranteed Income and Magnolia Mother's Trust
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November 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
For Nicole, “it feels like I’m just working to survive. Budgeting is a constant struggle because you can’t budget money you don’t have.”
Read more about how SNAP and guaranteed income support families in this month’s “Front & Center.”
Read more about how SNAP and guaranteed income support families in this month’s “Front & Center.”
"More than 1.2 million other children could have told a similar story. The key difference was that Giuffre was violated by extraordinarily wealthy and powerful men."
Virginia Giuffre’s Posthumous Memoir Is an Indictment of the Men—and Institutions—That Enabled Her Abuse
Virginia Giuffre’s Posthumous Memoir "Nobody's Girl" Is an Indictment of the Men and Institutions That Enabled Her Abuse
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November 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
"More than 1.2 million other children could have told a similar story. The key difference was that Giuffre was violated by extraordinarily wealthy and powerful men."
A revived “public charge” standard directs officers to deny visas to people with disabilities, chronic illnesses and age-related conditions—echoing the exclusionary policies of the early 20th century.
A Century After the Eugenics Movement, the U.S. Is Again Barring Disabled Immigrants
Trump and Rubio's “public charge” standard denies visas to people with disabilities, chronic illnesses and age-related conditions. Eugenics, anyone?
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November 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
A revived “public charge” standard directs officers to deny visas to people with disabilities, chronic illnesses and age-related conditions—echoing the exclusionary policies of the early 20th century.
High schoolers, and especially high school girls, are less likely than ever to say that they want to get married someday, according to new research.
Actually It's Good That Fewer High Schoolers Want to Get Married
Actually It's Good That Fewer High Schoolers Want to Get Married. Why worry that 17-year-old girls don't want to wed?
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November 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
High schoolers, and especially high school girls, are less likely than ever to say that they want to get married someday, according to new research.
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University Leaders Must Act: An Open Letter on the Threats Facing Critical Interdisciplinary Programs Like Women's and Gender Studies msmagazine.com/2025/09/10/c...
University Leaders Must Act: An Open Letter on the Threats Facing Critical Interdisciplinary Programs Like Women's and Gender Studies
College and University Leaders Must Act: An Open Letter on the Threats Facing Critical Interdisciplinary Programs Like Women's and Gender Studies
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November 14, 2025 at 10:46 PM
University Leaders Must Act: An Open Letter on the Threats Facing Critical Interdisciplinary Programs Like Women's and Gender Studies msmagazine.com/2025/09/10/c...
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Here's an interview I did with Venny Ala-Siurua the executive director of global online abortion service Women on Web, now serving people in the U.S. They will become a key avenue of abortion pill access if Trump restricts mife. @plancpills.bsky.social @msmagazine.com
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November 17, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Here's an interview I did with Venny Ala-Siurua the executive director of global online abortion service Women on Web, now serving people in the U.S. They will become a key avenue of abortion pill access if Trump restricts mife. @plancpills.bsky.social @msmagazine.com
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