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“Threats to democratic institutions and threats to LGBTQ rights are mutually reinforcing, generating a vicious cycle that strengthens authoritarian control." #MsReads via @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social
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The Latest Attacks On Queer Rights Put Democracy In Peril
The No King's Protest underscores how many believe Trump's attacks on queer rights are putting American democracy in peril
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December 6, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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This week marked the anniversary of Rosa Parks’ arrest—a moment that has become so iconic in our national memory that it’s easy to forget the fuller, more complicated story behind it. More in the latest Weekend Reading:
Seventy Years After Rosa Parks' Arrest: How We Commit to Carrying the Work Forward
a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, sports and entertainment, judicial offices and the private sector
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December 5, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Between shield laws, telehealth providers and international networks, Texas’ new bounty-style restrictions are unlikely to stop abortion pills from reaching patients.
Why Attempts to Stop the Flow of Abortion Pills Into Texas Will Fail
Shield laws, telehealth providers and international networks mean Texas’ new bounty-style restrictions are unlikely to stop abortion pills.
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December 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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The release of over 23,000 files associated with Epstein is raising questions about the scope and scale of his sex trafficking ring and its connections to power. @moiradonegan.bsky.social joins @michelegoodwin.bsky.social to discuss: msmagazine.com/podcast/on-s...
December 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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A new @kff.org analysis shows premium costs would surge nationwide if enhanced ACA tax credits expire, with the steepest spikes hitting Wyoming, West Virginia and Alaska.
Where ACA Premiums Could Spike Most in 2026 if Congress Lets Enhanced Tax Credits Expire
Premium costs would surge nationwide if enhanced ACA tax credits expire, with the steepest spikes hitting Wyoming, West Virginia and Alaska.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Antiabortion extremists have purchased a facility that will host an antiabortion academy capable of training hundreds of militant extremists at a time in tactics including blockades, harassment and other intimidation actions.
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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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December 5, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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“Our country wants us to be birthing machines, but they’re cutting what resources there already are." #MsReads via @kffhealthnews.org
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Trump Wants Americans To Make More Babies. Critics Say His Policies Won’t Help Raise Them. - KFF Health News
The administration’s embrace of the pronatalist movement often doesn’t include support for programs traditionally associated with the health and well-being of women, children, and families.
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December 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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The Epstein files are forcing a reckoning—but with what, exactly?
Sex, Power and Impunity: Epstein’s Legacy in Historical Perspective
What good does it do women or Epstein victims of sexual coercion, trafficking and other mistreatment—to raise the heat on Trump and the files?
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December 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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The day came and went in a quiet, cold Washington, D.C., without the president marking what it represented: the more than 700,000 Americans who died from HIV/AIDS-related causes in the United States since 1981.
Trump’s Silence on World AIDS Day Revives a New Lavender Scare
The White House's refusal to acknowledge World AIDS Day is a pattern of stigma and state-sanctioned neglect that's giving Ronald Reagan.
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December 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Accountability, or its absence, sends a powerful message to young men and boys.
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What Boys Learn When Powerful Men Face No Consequences
What Boys Learn When Powerful Men Face No Consequences: If Trump Gets Away with Epstein Abuse, Boys Will Learn Violence Against Women is OK
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December 4, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Amid escalating hostility and loss, the Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project shows how Black and brown trans communities sustain one another through ritual, rest and radical care.
'We Take Care of Each Other': Building Community in a Brutal Political Moment
At the Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP), Black and brown trans communities heal through ritual, rest, community and care.
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December 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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A federal move to downgrade nursing degrees shows women’s expertise is still treated as expendable.
They Came for Nurses. What They’re Really Coming for Is Women’s Power—and Your Healthcare.
Trump and Republicans' move to downgrade nursing degrees shows women’s expertise is still treated as expendable and unprofessional.
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December 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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🧵The so-called " #WarOnDrugs" always was — & remains still — a war on Black & brown people in particular, especially Black mothers & birthing people. Black women continue to be overlooked & exploited as this war rages on. They deserved better then, & deserve better now.

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The War on Drugs Was a War on Black Mothers
Black women were vilified as unfit mothers during crack baby panic, but science—and lived experiences of families—tell a different story.
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December 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Amid escalating hostility and loss, the Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP) shows how Black and brown trans communities sustain one another through ritual, rest and radical care.

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'We Take Care of Each Other': Building Community in a Brutal Political Moment
At the Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP), Black and brown trans communities heal through ritual, rest, community and care.
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December 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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"Even if they make telemedicine illegal, even if they ban mifepristone, even if there’s a national abortion ban, we’re still going to be having abortions and helping each other have abortions. Fundamentally, it is unstoppable." @shoutyourabortion.bsky.social
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Shout Your Abortion Short Films Seek to Normalize Keeping Abortion Pills at Home: ‘You Always Have Options’
Shout Your Abortion's new campaign are short, powerful films that demystify abortion pills and encourage women and girls to keep them on hand.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Bringing essential services directly to rural communities, Zimbabwe’s Women at the Centre initiative is repairing a fractured response system and empowering survivors to seek justice.
Breaking the Silence: Zimbabwe Initiative Reaches Survivors of Violence
Bringing services to rural communities, Zimbabwe’s Women at the Centre is empowering women survivors of sexual and gender violence.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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A conservative takeover at New College of Florida remade the institution. Now, the Trump administration is bringing that playbook to Massachusetts. #MsReads via @masslive.bsky.social
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How a small Florida college became Trump’s blueprint to threaten higher ed in Mass.
A conservative takeover at New College of Florida remade the institution. Now, the Trump administration is bringing that playbook to Massachusetts.
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December 3, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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For many immigrant families, caregiving is an act of love passed down through generations—yet in the U.S., the lack of paid leave, affordable elder care and basic support makes it nearly impossible to sustain.
Caregiving Is Extremely Difficult in America. It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way.
For many immigrant families, caregiving is an act of love. In the U.S., a lack of paid leave, affordable care and support makes it impossible.
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December 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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The U.S. loses over 20,000 babies to stillbirth each year, with many preventable. But stillbirth remains largely invisible in policy and public discourse.
Twenty Thousand Stillbirths a Year, and No Federal Plan to Prevent Them
For a country that claims to value life, the U.S. has allowed stillbirth to remain in the shadows of public health and reproductive justice.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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✍️The latest on pregnancy criminalization in @msmagazine.com from @ruwomenpolitics.bsky.social alum Grace Howard
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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 8:59 PM
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A Bill Criminalizing Abortion Failed in the South Carolina Senate, but Prosecutors Have Long Treated Pregnancy as a Crime
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 10:38 PM
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Leaving an abusive relationship is hard. We can quit him: Marjorie Taylor Greene and the rest of us should learn how it’s done from survivors, and the courts must have our backs when we do. msmagazine.com/2025/11/24/m...
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 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Rouge Doulas are a global network of abortion doulas supporting self-managed abortion. @msmagazine.com
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Inside the Global Network of Abortion Doulas Supporting Self-Managed Care
Rouge Doulas is building a global network of trained abortion doulas who offer free support for people self-managing abortions with pills.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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We Can No Longer Tinker With the Machinery of Death: New ACLU Report Exposes Fatal Flaws in Capital Punishment

Report reveals how racism, human error and official misconduct make wrongful convictions—& wrongful executions—an unavoidable feature of capital punishment msmagazine.com/2025/11/26/d...
We Can No Longer Tinker With the Machinery of Death: New ACLU Report Exposes Fatal Flaws in Capital Punishment
New report from American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): The death penalty is riddled with human error and poses executes innocent people.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Brilliant analysis by a legal scholar of our nation’s relationship with its chief abuser—and what we are finally doing about it with the help of the courts, and numerous citizens’ escalating and relentless petitioning of our politicians. msmagazine.com/2025/11/24/m...
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 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM