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‘You Must Give It All You Got’: Ethel Kennedy’s Playbook for Enacting Meaningful Social Change

1 day ago | msmagazine.com | Kerry Kennedy

For those of us who believe in democracy, justice and human rights, the first months of the Trump administration have been infuriating. On a daily basis, the president finds new ways to recklessly dismantle our government, trample sacred institutions, and break the law with seeming impunity. It’s no wonder so many Americans feel a deep sense of hopelessness. I’ve felt it myself. But I was raised to hold onto hope, even on the darkest days.
No Room to Pump, No Room for Error: One Mother’s Fight to Feed Her Baby at Work

6 days ago | msmagazine.com | Abigail Leonard

When I was six months pregnant with my first child, I moved to Tokyo from San Francisco. At the time, I told myself it was the sensible choice: My husband was spending one week a month in Tokyo to open the Japan office of a renewable energy company, and it was more practical for him to be there full-time.
'You Only Get What You're Organized to Take': On Sustaining Social Change From the Bottom Up

6 days ago | msmagazine.com | Eleanor Bader

Mainstream media, conservatives and politicians want people to believe that the poor will always be with us. But it’s a lie.
Blood Money, Blues Women, and the Power of Price: How 'Sinners' Rewrites the Gothic South

6 days ago | msmagazine.com | Janell Hobson

This review contains spoilers. “Numbers are always in a conversation.”In Ryan Coogler’s Black Southern horror hit Sinners, the above quote is offered as sage advice to a young Black girl in the town of Clarksdale, Miss., by the gangster Smoke.
‘This Is About Life or Death’: Leading Feminists Discuss Women’s Rights in Post-Roe America

1 week ago | msmagazine.com | Marianne Schnall

In the wake of the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade, reproductive freedom has been experiencing unprecedented rollbacks. With abortion bans in place in 19 states and new legislation being put forth every day, women’s bodily autonomy and lives are in critical danger.
Why Motherhood Is Harder in Some Countries Than Others: The Ms. Q&A With Abigail Leonard, Author of 'Four Mothers'

1 week ago | msmagazine.com | Eleanor Bader

“Parenthood is shaped by the broad systems our societies have built over time,” writes award-winning journalist and mother Abigail Leonard in Four Mothers: An Intimate Journey Through the First Year of Parenthood in Four Countries.
Despite Attacks Against Women in the Workplace, Survivors Are Making Critical Advances

1 week ago | msmagazine.com | Gretchen Carlson |Julie Roginsky

Sorry, Joe Rogan. The #MeToo movement is not going away. We know because we helped launch this iteration of the #MeToo movement when we sued Fox News and its former CEO Roger Ailes for sexual harassment and retaliation even before the Harvey Weinstein scandal broke in the fall of 2017. We know because the laws we helped pass in Washington and across the country over the last several years have helped countless women receive justice. And those laws—and this movement—aren’t going away.
Midwifery Is as Old as Birth Itself. Why Are We Still Fighting for It?

1 week ago | msmagazine.com | Roxanne Szal

As long as women have been giving birth, people have assisted mothers and newborns up to and through childbirth—making midwifery one of the world’s oldest occupations. The International Day of the Midwife, observed each year on May 5, aims to honor the profession and promote awareness of its vital role in healthcare. Today, the presence of a midwife greatly increases birth outcomes for both baby and mother.
May 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us

1 week ago | msmagazine.com | Karla Strand

The Feminist Know-It-All: You know her. You can’t stand her. Good thing she’s not here! Instead, this column by gender and women’s studies librarian Karla Strand will amplify stories of the creation, access, use and preservation of knowledge by women and girls around the world; share innovative projects and initiatives that focus on information, literacies, libraries and more; and, of course, talk about all of the books.
'We Need a Gentle Anger': The Triangle’s Raging Grannies are Protesting Injustice through Music

1 week ago | msmagazine.com |

Originally published in Indy Week on April 21, 2025. Even in a crowd of thousands, they’re instantly recognizable by sight and sound: silver-haired women wearing colorful aprons and floppy hats, brandishing cardboard signs and sheafs of lyrics, singing acerbic protest songs set to cheerful nursery tunes.