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msmagazine.com > 02/20/2026 > maya-shankar-indian-american-women-child-free

What Happens When the Life You Always Dreamed of Isn’t Meant for You?

32+ min ago  (1476+ words) This piece is part of an ongoing series, "Redefining Power: How Indian American Women Are Rewriting the Rules of Leadership, Identity and Care." The series explores what it means to modernize without losing our roots'through candid conversations with Indian American…...

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msmagazine.com > 02/20/2026 > black-women-writers-barbara-brenner-phillis-wheatley-octavia-butler-gwendolyn-brooks-ida-b-wells-hannah-crafts-adrienne-kennedy

Seven Black Women Writers, Thinkers and Poets That Captured the Human Experience

2+ hour, 26+ min ago  (629+ words) Look What SHE Did!is a nonprofit filmmaking team that has produced hundreds of three- to four-minutefilmsof women telling the stories of the trailblazing women who inspire them. In honor of Black History Month, we've curated seven of our favorite…...

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msmagazine.com > 02/19/2026 > epstein-men-protect-experts-masculinity-male-peer-complicit-sexual-assault

The Missing Voices in the Epstein Files' Media Commentary: Sexual Assault Prevention Educators

15+ hour, 19+ min ago  (1037+ words) This analysis was originally published on'In the Arena With Jackson Katz. The Epstein files scandal has all the elements of a gigantic media spectacle. It encompasses everything from true crime to political intrigue, and offers a peak behind closed doors…...

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msmagazine.com > 02/19/2026 > free-abortion-pills

Community Networks Sharing Free Abortion Pills Expand to States Where Abortion Is Legal but Out of Reach

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (994+ words) Every package we send out is a bullet fired at the patriarchy." In response to abortion bans and restrictions, feminists across the country have created networks of community groups that share abortion pills by mail, free of charge, with people…...

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msmagazine.com > 02/18/2026 > sundance-2026-olive-nwosu-lagos-nigeria-drama-film-lady

Sundance 2026: Olive Nwosu’s Haunting Lagos-Set Drama ‘LADY’ Asks What Happens When You Can No Longer Tune Out the World

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (361+ words) This is one in a series of'film reviews from the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, focused on films by women, trans or nonbinary directors that tell compelling stories about the lives of women and girls. The opening imagery of LADY, a haunting…...

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msmagazine.com > 02/18/2026 > olympic-women-sports-eating-disorder

The Intensity and Perfectionism That Drive Olympic Athletes Also Put Them at High Risk for Eating Disorders

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (565+ words) Olympians'athletes at the top of their sport and in prime health'are idolized and often viewed as superhuman. These athletes spend their lives focusing on building physical strength through rigorous training and diets that are honed to provide the nutrients necessary…...

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msmagazine.com > 02/18/2026 > lindsey-vonn-women-sports

Lindsey Vonn Redefines The Limits of Possibility 

2+ day, 9+ min ago  (704+ words) If there is anyone who could attempt a comeback that improbable, it is Vonn. As the most decorated female alpine skier in history at the time of her retirement, she amassed 82 World Cup victories, along with three Olympic medals and…...

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msmagazine.com > 02/18/2026 > josh-and-erin-hawleys-love-life-initiative-signals-the-next-phase-of-the-antiabortion-fight

Josh and Erin Hawley’s 'Love Life Initiative' Signals the Next Phase of the Antiabortion Fight

2+ day, 40+ min ago  (886+ words) Antiabortion power couple Erin and Josh Hawley announced in December the launch of a new dark money antiabortion group: the Love Life Initiative. Erin Hawley is senior counsel at the far-right Christian legal advocacy Alliance Defending Freedom and member of…...

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msmagazine.com > 02/17/2026 > fbi-asha-rangappa-ice

‘A Deliberate Attempt to Terrorize’: Former FBI Agent Asha Rangappa on What Real Law Enforcement Looks Like—and What ICE Is Not

2+ day, 17+ hour ago  (1791+ words) This piece is part of an ongoing series, "Redefining Power: How Indian American Women Are Rewriting the Rules of Leadership, Identity and Care." The series explores what it means to modernize without losing our roots'through candid conversations with Indian American…...

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msmagazine.com > 02/14/2026 > pregnant-woman-health-trump-fascism

The Strange Hopefulness of Growing a Human While the World Burns

6+ day, 5+ hour ago  (817+ words) This story was originally published by The Conversationalist, an independent nonprofit and global feminist publication. I've been promising, and failing, since before the 2024 U.S. election to write about the world on fire, and the arsonists fanning the flames. The essay I'd…...