1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (300+ words) Editor’s note: Nasrin Sotoudeh is an Iranian human rights lawyer and activist who, along with her husband Reza Khandan, has been repeatedly arrested for her women’s rights activism and spent six years in prison. In the wake of Gloria Steinem’s…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (205+ words) Gloria Steinem understood that changing the world meant changing the story: whose experiences were considered news, whose voices were heard and whose struggles were deemed worthy of public attention. When she cofounded Ms. in 1972, the magazine gave millions of women…...

1+ week, 14+ hour 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, 21+ hour 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…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1801+ words) Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and entertainment, in judicial offices and in the private sector in the U.S. and around the world—with a little…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1042+ words) I almost bought an Oura Ring at 3:12 in the morning. I was lying awake in my small D.C. apartment, my phone casting a blue glow across my face. I couldn’t sleep. Again. My mind was already racing through the work waiting…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1691+ words) Originally published by COURIER Texas on Aug. 12, 2026. “Choosing to bring new life into the world shouldn’t be a death sentence,” insisted Michelle Maloney, the San Antonio attorney working to bring justice to Texas widower Hope Ngumezi and his two young…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (800+ words) Trigger warning: This op-ed contains firsthand descriptions of abuse. Roughly one in six men in the United States experience sexual abuse before age 18, yet many never disclose their abuse because of stigma and rigid expectations about masculinity. As a survivor,…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (634+ words) When I began researching books for my 2010 around-the-world journey—which is cataloged in my upcoming memoir, Where I’m From: A Poetic Journey Across Five Continents—I didn’t even know to look for books by Black women travelers. I didn’t know…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1202+ words) “The woman who was ahead of the women, who were ahead of their time.” One hundred and fifty years ago, on July 4, 1876, at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, our founding feminist foremothers were speaking past their own lifetimes—straight to us,…...