1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1763+ words) Editor’s note: This essay is adapted from a special episode of On the Issues with Michele Goodwin, “Rest in Power Gloria Steinem—An Enduring Legacy of Truth-Telling, Torch-Bearing and Bringing Joy to the Resistance.” This week, Gloria Steinem died at…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1102+ words) Editor’s note: This profile of Robin Morgan was written for the forthcoming Fall 2026 issue of Ms., on the occasion of her stepping down as the magazine’s global editor. Morgan died peacefully in her sleep on Sept. 5, 2026, just days after her…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (652+ words) As we grieve the passing of Gloria Steinem, Ms.‘s co-founder and feminist visionary, we’re looking back at some of our favorite quotes from her 50+ years of speaking and activism across the U.S. and around the world. Steinem was…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1281+ words) The following foreword, written by Steinem for 50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution (2023), looks back on the magazine’s unlikely beginnings, the readers and movements that sustained it, and the work still ahead. Published…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (864+ words) Hello, feminist reader friends! Each month, I provide Ms. readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups. The aims of these lists are threefold: This month, it’s back to school and back to…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (753+ words) Keshia Golden’s attorneys say that in October 2022, while she was eight-plus months pregnant, her then-boyfriend Calvin Sidney hit her, grabbed her hair and slammed her head against a kitchen counter. Golden grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed Sidney in the…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (443+ words) By the time Gilda reached my office, she was worn out. The message seemed clear: This was the natural course of aging, and she should get used to the patient role. “It’s depressing,” she told me. … The system has taught…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (869+ words) I don’t remember how old I was when I first heard the term “jiggle TV,” but I know it was many years (decades, probably) after I was a devoted, starry-eyed fangirl of the genre. And I do mean girl—Wonder…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1110+ words) This powerful political boys’ club in the U.S. seems always willing to embrace new members. The latest addition—and currently the loudest denier—is Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) who denies his former wife’s claims of physical abuse as well as…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (727+ words) Over the past year, several women-focused articles in the New York Times declared feminism has gone too far, and put the onus on women to fix what is broken. An article asking if liberal feminism “ruined the workplace” broke the…...