FROM THE MAGAZINE
If the Clothes Fit: A Feminist Takes on Fashion
Fashion, like so many other things associated primarily with women, may be dismissed as trivial, but it shapes how we?re read by others, especially on the levels of gender, class and race. Read more...
Perp Walk for the Pope?
Barbara Blaine wants the pope to be accountable. In September, Blaine and the Survivor's Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) helped persuade the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague to investigate the Vatican and Pope Benedict XVI for crimes against humanity.Read more...
Giving Birth to Progress
My mom, Jean, was the strongest and the most amazing woman I've ever known. And I've known a lot of strong and amazing women: Bella Abzug, Coretta Scott King, Shirley Chisholm, Geraldine Ferraro, Barbara Jordan, Eleanor Holmes Norton. Each in her way has been a mentor of mine. Read more...
Making Change
New Ms. Foundation President Anika Rahman thinks women's rights organizations are underfunded compared to other social justice groups—and she's determined to change that. Read more...
Old Tactics, New South
As arrests of undocumented immigrants continue across the nation (most recently, of a dozen Alabama students), a group of women in Georgia are fighting back with lessons learned from the Civil Rights movements. Read more...
Feminist Art Does It in Public
The exhibit "Doin' It in Public: Feminism and Art at The Woman's Building," opens October 1 in Los Angeles (and continues through January 28, 2012). Here's a remembrance of the famed feminist cultural center from someone who was there. Read more...
The Verbal Karate of Florynce R. Kennedy, Esq.
Watching the new HBO documentary Gloria: In Her Own Words left us nostalgic for the early days of Ms., so we went to the Ms. archives and unearthed a feature from the March 1973 issue in which Gloria Steinem pays homage to the "infinitely quotable Flo." Here is the original piece: Read more...
7 Billion Reasons
The reintroduction of the Global Gag Rule in the House last week reminded us yet again how important it is to protect women's reproductive rights worldwide. Susan Petroni gives a number of compelling reasons--7 billion in fact--why we must continue our fight for reproductive justice. Read more...
Join our No More Excuses! Campaign
Feminists helped defeat the Republican attempt to narrow the definition of rape to "forcible rape." But we're still fighting the war to get "forcible
rape" removed from our national lexicon. Read more...
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