Well, a year has passed.
As we take a moment this holiday season to start planning for 2025, I’m reflecting on some of the most important stories we covered this year in Ms. We focused on the issues that matter most to women, especially those that matter to women. It’s an issue often overlooked by the mainstream media, but one we’ve been paying attention to for a long time. Here are six of them.
The Women and Democracy Platform’s Spring 2024 series, “The ERA is Essential to Democracy,” is dedicated to the Equal Rights Amendment’s bold future. Speaking with constitutional experts and legislators, we asked an important question: What will it take to fully and finally recognize the ERA as the 28th Amendment? How strong is public support for the ERA? (Spoiler alert: Very.) And after Dobbs, how will the ERA help turn the tide against a return to abortion and reproductive freedom? Is it?
We have never been silent about threats to our fundamental rights, no matter how far away they may seem. Since February, we’ve been delivering updates on the right’s misogynistic manifesto: Project 2025. From dismantling the Department of Education to enforcing strict abortion bans at the federal level, Project 2025 will have dramatic consequences for us as a nation. If implemented, the whole thing, especially women. But feminists won’t go down without a fight. We also spoke with lawmakers and activists who are bracing for threats to civil liberties from the incoming administration.
And just as women in the United States continue to fight for our basic rights, we also fight against restrictive systems that seek to control our bodies. We can’t forget about women. In our fall print edition, how Afghan women are resisting in the face of the ongoing Taliban crackdown that has stripped them of their rights to hold jobs, go to school, and live in public life. We will investigate.
In the fall, as the election looms over us all, we launched our newest podcast, The Z Factor, to hand over the microphone to the next generation of voters. Host Anushka Chander spoke with Gen Z activists, politicians, and pollsters about the issues that matter to them, from the fight against climate change to the fight for democracy.
When Kamala Harris announced herself as the Democratic presidential nominee to replace Joe Biden, it felt like we had a front row seat to a cultural tipping point, especially when it comes to men and masculinity. From right-wing criticism of Tim Walz’s war record to the debates and the role of white men in Donald Trump’s re-election, contributor Jackson Katz examines what happened along the way and how we And now it’s clear how exactly we got here.
And as we approach the end of the year, we mourn those who didn’t make it, especially the women whose deaths were avoidable because of the Republican abortion ban. These are just some of the names on that list.
Josely Barnica.
Yenifer Alvarez-Estrada Glick.
Porsha Gumezi.
Nevaeh Crane.
These women should still be alive. She continues to tell their stories, adding new names to the list as they are published, but that these names represent only a fraction of the total cost to lives and futures caused by these bans. we know.
These stories and projects, many of which receive little coverage in mainstream publications, demonstrate the importance of feminist-focused news reporting in our current cultural and political moment. Our readers know that feminist journalism is essential to public discourse. It is essential for political discussions. And it is absolutely essential for a free and fair democracy. I can promise you that we will not look away or be silent, even if they want us to.