Patrick Bresnan
‘First They Came for My College’: The Takeover of a Florida College and the Students Who Refused to Disappear
When I told coworkers and friends I was going to see a documentary about the right-wing takeover of a small public Florida college, the reaction was immediate and unanimous: Why would you do that to yourself? Too depressing. I’d be too angry.
They weren’t wrong. Premiering at SXSW last month and directed by Patrick Bresnan, First They Came for My College is, at times, almost unbearable to watch—a slow, procedural dismantling of a public institution, carried out in meeting rooms and press conferences and budget lines.
But what stayed with me wasn’t only the anger—it was the stubborn, surprising insistence on community, joy and showing up anyway.
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These Fathers of Trans Children in the U.S. Are Deconstructing Their Own Masculinity to Become Better Parents
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How Cyberattacks on Essential Services Hit Women Harder
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Community Providers Play a Critical Role in Supporting Sexual and Domestic Violence Survivors Self-Managing Abortions
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Forget the ‘Manosphere’—The ‘Meno-Sphere’ Is the Voting Bloc With Real Power
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Pulling a Page From the Confederacy: Trump and Birthright Citizenship
Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara—a landmark case that seeks to fundamentally rewrite the substance and meaning of one of the most important provisions of the Constitution: birthright citizenship. In this special episode of On the Issues, Dr. Goodwin unpacks Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship, which is widely recognized as one of the Constitution’s most fundamental rights and has been protected by the 14th Amendment for over 150 years, pointing out how it echoes a Confederate playbook, and seeks to reshape the fabric of our very nation.
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Cover Reveal and Spring 2026 Issue Sneak Peek: ICE Is ‘the Army of the Patriarchy’
In early February, while the nation was still reeling from the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents, Loretta Ross and Jackson Katz—two feminist academics with decidedly different backgrounds and identities—discussed how U.S. federal agents became the enforcement arm of the nation’s racism and misogyny.
You’ll find this, and more, in the Spring 2026 issue of Ms.
Making Disability Visible in History: A Conversation With Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Dr. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is a pioneering scholar of bioethics, humanities, disability justice and culture, and professor emerita at Emory University. Widely considered the founder of feminist disability studies, Garland-Thomson is the author of several canonical works, including Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Disability in American Culture and Literature (1997) and the influential essay, “Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory” (2002).
On the nation’s 250th anniversary and for the series on “America’s Founding Feminists,” Ms.’ guest editor Janell Hobson spoke with Garland-Thomson about disability history and its connections to women’s history.
She argues centering disability reshapes our understanding of history, citizenship and whose lives are recognized as foundational to U.S. democracy.
“Women’s bodies have always offered men an opportunity to talk about nations, to talk about themselves, to talk about government.”
“… These human variations that we think of as disabilities are often an opportunity for resourcefulness.”
(This essay is part of the FEMINIST 250: Founding Feminists series, marking the 250th anniversary of America by reclaiming the revolution through the women and gender-expansive people whose ideas, labor and resistance shaped U.S. democracy.)
