Sarah Diehl’s documentary Abortion Democracy: Poland/South Africa contrasts two countries that made big decisions about abortion rights in the 1990s. Poland criminalized abortion in 1993; South Africa legalized it in […]
Author: Alexandra Tweten
From the Stacks: Keep Her Where She Belongs
This ad for shoes was featured in Playboy magazine and reprinted in the No Comment section of Ms., December 1974. Aside from the fact that the footwear looks curiously androgynous […]
Newsflash: Stupak to Retire
Anti-choice Democrat Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan has announced he will not run for re-election. Stupak was responsible for negotiating with President Obama to sign an executive order banning federal […]
Students Fight CPC on Public Campus
A religious, anti-choice crisis pregnancy center (CPC) has set up shop on the publicly-owned property of Cal Poly Pomona university in California, directly across from a student apartment building. Misleadingly […]
We Heart: Women Astronauts
Hooray! Women are one small step closer to achieving gender parity in space. A record four women are now in space and will soon orbit Earth on the International Space […]
Is the Archbishop Warming Up to Contraception?
Though it’s likely to be overshadowed by today’s outrageous statement by a Vatican bishop comparing the uproar over priest abuse to the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany, we’d like […]
From the Stacks: Wife Publicly Shamed by Husband Over Parking Job
Check out this clip from a Lansing, Michigan newspaper, reprinted in the No Comment section of the May 1973 issue of Ms.
We Heart: Barbara Berg and her new book, “Sexism in America”
Ms. recently interviewed Barbara J. Berg, who explores the backlash to feminism in today’s society in her new book Sexism in America: Alive, Well, and Ruining our Future.
Feminist Litmus Test: Flygirls, The Marriage Ref, TRANSform Me
Do these new shows pass the feminist litmus test?
Equal Visibility Everywhere is increasing representation for girls and women across the nation
Equal Visibility Everywhere launched this month, with a mission to update monuments, memorials, and statues representing women.