FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | JUNE 27, 2025
The real-time unraveling of American democracy was made possible by the overwhelming support Donald Trump received in 2024 primarily—though not exclusively—from white men. This time around the winning pro-Trump coalition included a surprising number of young men, a sure sign that something’s up that demands closer scrutiny.
That’s why Ms. asked Jackson Katz, a major figure and thought leader in the growing global movement of men working to promote gender equality, to guest-edit a special feature section highlighting key issues related to men and masculinity, from the personal to the political. Ms.’s special report on men, in the Summer print issue, hits newsstands July 15.
It’s true that many boys and men are struggling. It’s also true that the right has successfully weaponized those struggles in their relentless attacks on feminists, liberals and progressives, and anyone else they can accuse of “wokeism,” and subsequently disparage and defund. The pieces in this section seek, instead, to understand the ways in which men’s struggles are connected to larger questions about gender and power that feminists have wrestled with for centuries.
Inside Ms.’s special report on men:
- Organizer and writer Garrett Bucks sees through JD Vance’s awkward posture to his self-defeating message for young men.
- Mental health clinician Jewel Woods argues that healing men and boys requires looking beyond grievance-based narratives—on the contrary, it requires a feminist approach.
- From Rush Limbaugh to Joe Rogan, conservative media has been devastatingly effective in creating a space where conservative ideas are seen as edgy and counterculture. Ms. goes behind the “bro-casts.”
- In an exclusive excerpt from his new book Every Man, Jackson Katz promotes an untapped strategy for preventing violence against women: making it men’s work.
Also in the Summer issue:
- An analysis of how the Trump administration’s USAID cuts will profoundly impact women and girls around the globe—from unsafe abortions to childbirth to HIV.
- An investigation into the children languishing in custody, separated from their parents by the Trump administration because of their immigration status.
- How a class action lawsuit against an antiabortion crisis pregnancy center led to a groundbreaking new Massachusetts law.
- Announcing the Ms. archive, in collaboration with ProQuest: the new Ms. magazine archive offers a roadmap for a feminist future.
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About Ms. Magazine: Co-founded by Gloria Steinem in 1972 and published by the Feminist Majority Foundation since 2001, Ms. magazine has been a trusted, popular source for feminist news and information in print and online for over 50 years. Ms.’s time-honored traditions of an emphasis on in-depth investigative reporting and feminist political analysis have never been more relevant, bringing a new generation of writers and readers together to share news, analysis, research and strategies for fighting back and moving forward, and for shaping a better future.
