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Jan 14, 2025 | 
msmagazine.com | Ava Slocum
Before COVID-19, it was rare for an immunologist to become a household name. But in 2020, Dr. Anthony Fauci—then-director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)—quickly became one of the U.S.’ most recognizable symbols of the fight against the pandemic. He was the face of the “Stop the Spread” campaign, urging people to get the vaccine (which some affectionately dubbed the “Fauci ouchie”), and was the subject of a documentary film in 2021.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
msmagazine.com | Ava Slocum
Republicans are once again denying election results after a defeat, subverting democracy to try to hold onto power. This November, abortion-rights voters in North Carolina hoped to reelect Supreme Court justice Allison Riggs. She ran against Republican Judge Jefferson Griffin, who ruled in a case in 2023 that life begins at conception. However, more than two months after Election Day, the Riggs versus Jefferson race remains uncalled, thanks to Republican attempts to demand a second recount.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
msmagazine.com | Ava Slocum
In every issue of Ms., we track research on our progress in the fight for equality, catalogue can’t-miss quotes from feminist voices and keep tabs on the feminist movement’s many milestones. We’re Keeping Score online, too—in this biweekly roundup.
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Jan 3, 2025 | 
msmagazine.com | Ava Slocum
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
msmagazine.com | Ava Slocum
Women walking into the bathroom on Capitol Hill Thursday morning found a buoyant dance party in progress: A group of trans artists and activists staged a protest in a women’s restroom in the U.S. Capitol, dancing to the song “Meeting in the Ladies Room” by the all-women pop and R&B band Klymaxx.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
msmagazine.com | Ava Slocum
Generation Z—born between the mid 1990s and the early 2010s—is the most diverse generation in American history, with nearly half of the Gen Z electorate in 2024 identifying as people of color. Gen Z has also come of age during the rise of school shootings, the COVID-19 pandemic and the first Trump presidency’s legislative attacks on reproductive freedom.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
msmagazine.com | Ava Slocum
News coverage this election cycle has focused heavily on the Gen Z vote, and for good reason. Besides being the most diverse generation in American history, Generation Z—born between the mid 1990s and the early 2010s—has grown up during a turbulent time in the U.S., from the rise of school shootings to the COVID-19 pandemic to the first (and soon to be second) Trump presidency and legislative attacks on reproductive freedom.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
msmagazine.com | Ava Slocum
If you, too, were a high school theater kid, you know that the real tears, bloodshed and gut-wrenching drama doesn’t happen on the stage. With lines like, “You know what they say: Some parts are big, and some parts are small, but actors have to act them,” Boomerang Theatre Company’s premiere production of Mercutio Loves Romeo Loves Juliet Loves by Gina Femia is keenly, tenderly aware of the pain of high school theater and being a teenage girl.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
bwog.com | Ava Slocum
Now in the second half of the fall semester, the new security measures from the start of the year haven’t gone anywhere. Students report feeling isolated and exhausted by the feeling of added surveillance on campus after the Spring 2024 protests. When Columbia students moved back onto campus at the start of September for the new semester, many were surprised to see new private security guards on campus in place of the familiar faces of Columbia Public Safety.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
msmagazine.com | Ava Slocum
More than two years after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, 41 states , and 13 have total abortion bans in place. One of the populations these bans have hit the hardest has been young people, who are less independent and have fewer resources for money and travel. Many college students, in particular, have seen their own reproductive rights change in just the time they’ve been in school.
