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The SAVE Act Will Set Women Voters Back a Generation
Barely six months into the new administration, President Trump and his allies are advancing a bill that will fundamentally change our elections and make it harder for millions of women to register, vote and participate in our democracy.
The deceptively named SAVE Act represents the latest and most dangerous threat of election denialism to date.
Proponents of the SAVE Act would have us believe that anyone can walk into a polling station and cast a vote without being identified at all. This could not be further from the truth.
SAVE Act supporters allege mass fraud in our elections, votes under the names of dead people and party activists voting multiple times. This, too, is false.
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What's Up With (White) Men? (with Jackson Katz, Gary Barker and Cody Thompson)
Everyone’s been asking: What’s up with men these days? From high rates of gun violence and domestic violence, to the “manosphere,” Andrew Tate, and the “male loneliness epidemic,” it’s clear that (white) men are hurting. But why is this happening—and what can be done to change things?
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‘No More Shame!’ The Transformative Lesson of Gisèle Pelicot, the French Survivor of Mass Rape
A phone call one autumn morning from local police requesting that Dominique Pelicot, then 67, husband to Gisèle, also 67, report to the local station interrupted their daily routine. A surprised Gisèle listened as her husband told her not to worry: “It won’t be pleasant, but by noon we will be home,” he said. But the next time she saw him was at his trial.
Like many countries, France has a protective privacy act guaranteeing anonymity for crime victims. Gisèle’s lawyers warned what would happen in a public trial—the intense media attention that would surely follow every development in the case, the probable attacks on her testimony in court and possible threats to her life. Undaunted, Gisèle chose to waive her right to anonymity.
“When you’re raped, there is shame, and it’s not for us to have shame,” she told the court. “It’s for them.”
Her insistence that her trial be public surprised both her lawyers and the presiding judge—and transformed Gisèle into a feminist hero and icon.
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‘Misogyny Is a System’: Julie Suk Wants to Reimagine U.S. Institutions—and Build a Democracy of Equality
“The entire infrastructure by which women have been excluded from real participation in decision making and power — that continues,” the legal scholar explains in the first episode of Looking Back, Moving Forward.
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