Part history, part blueprint, FEMINIST 250 reexamines America’s founding through a feminist lens and charts a course toward a more perfect union.
As the U.S. prepares to mark its 250th birthday on July 4, 2026, questions loom over the celebration: Whose America gets remembered, whose gets erased—and how do we imagine and build a democracy that includes all of us?
In the Summer issue of Ms., we revisit the nation’s founding through a feminist lens, reclaiming the stories too often left out of the official narrative: women who challenged the authors of the Declaration of Independence and later the U.S. Constitution for deliberately writing women out of America’s founding documents, Black women who resisted oppression from the start, Indigenous societies built around women-led governance, queer lives in revolutionary America, Asian women’s struggles for belonging and the long fight to make disability visible in our history.
We also look back at 54 years of feminist reporting from the pages of Ms.—proof that the battles for bodily autonomy, equality and democracy did not begin yesterday—and forward to the bold new ideas that could shape a freer, fairer future for the next 250 years.
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In this landmark issue, Ms. traces America’s feminist revolution in three parts:
- America’s Founding Feminists: a sweeping collection of essays curated by Ms. contributing editor and scholar Janell Hobson reclaims America’s origin story by centering the women whose ideas, labor and resistance helped build—and continually rebuild—the nation.
- Feminist Lessons from the Last 54 Years: Through selections from the Ms. archives, we revisit the reporting that has documented and driven the reconstruction of women’s history and the feminist movement for half a century.
- Democracy’s Feminist Future: Visionaries including political strategist LaTosha Brown, workplace-justice advocate Inimai Chettiar, democracy defender Skye Perryman and Ms. contributing editor Carrie Baker offer bold proposals to secure political and social equality, economic justice—and a “more perfect union” that includes each one of us.
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