Ms. Must-Reads: Sept. 3
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Every four years, the fall issue of Ms. is—to be perfectly honest—pretty much the same. We do our best to explain what’s at stake in the upcoming election and how the outcome will affect our lives and future.
This year that wasn’t necessary. Project 2025 did the job for us.
The 887-page Project 2025 Presidential Transition Project laid out exactly how the next Republican president would engineer the reversal of more than 50 years of hard-fought gains for women and girls.
The list on our Fall cover is just the beginning. What else does Project 2025 have in the crosshairs? Ms. contributing editor Carrie N. Baker read the “misogynist manifesto” front to back so you don’t have to. (Click here to take advantage of our special election-year price and get Ms. for just $20.24).
We’ve been keeping our eye on Project 2025 for a while. This week in Ms., we explore a number of the right-wing plan’s overlooked facets—including its radical “guns everywhere” agenda that calls for arming teachers and weakening restrictions on the gun industry; and its plans to revive and expand attacks on election officials by stripping crucial federal resources and weaponizing the Department of Justice against them.
We also launched the latest iteration of our Women & Democracy series: Feminist Philanthropy is Essential to Democracy. “As a matter of political and policy urgency, global democratic backsliding makes gender equity a crucial investment,” writes our executive director for partnerships and strategy Jennifer Weiss-Wolf in the introduction. “With ascending authoritarianism comes inevitable attempts to rollback women’s, reproductive and LGBTQ+ rights. The connection is not coincidental: There is not an authoritarian playbook that does not make gender a core focus.”
I encourage you to explore the essays and videos in the collection—which feature perspectives from 20+ visionary leaders charting new ground to demonstrate exactly what it looks like to fund and mobilize at the intersection of gender and democracy.
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Finally, as we celebrated Labor Day this past weekend, I was thinking about the women who couldn't take the day off—whether they’re service workers and domestic workers who need to support their families and can’t afford to take a day off work, or women doing the unpaid domestic labor in their own homes. Ms. has always known that labor issues are inseparable from women’s issues—and we stand for the freedom of these women, and join them in their fights for equal wages, for domestic labor to be paid, and to simply take a day of rest.
For Equality,
Kathy Spillar
Executive Editor
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This week's Ms. Must-Reads: