Carrie N. Baker

From the Frontlines of the MAGA War on Higher Education: The Ms. Q&A With New College of Florida Professor Amy Reid

Iraq's Parliament is currently advancing an amendment to the country's Personal Status Law that would shift governance of marriage from state courts to Iraqi religious authorities, posing dire threats to the human rights of girls and women. The new law would give legal recognition to marriages of girls as young as 9 years old and remove criminal punishments for men who marry young girls—thereby legally authorizing the rape and sexual abuse of girls by adult men. The amendment would also remove protections for women in marriage, divorce and inheritance, which would likely increase already high rates of domestic violence.

By CARRIE N. BAKER Published: 08-21-2024 4:36 PM Opinion Northampton MA

PUBLISHED by At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, party leaders approved the 2024 platform Monday evening, promising to protect and strengthen women's rights.

In the 1990s, Promise Keepers were an evangelical group of Christian men who pledged to keep their promises to their wives and children in exchange for female submission and service. Relatively apolitical at the time, Promise Keepers even pledged to work toward “racial reconciliation.” Filling football stadiums, evangelical men and boys felt safe to cry and hug, while reaffirming each other’s masculinity and entitlement to male dominance. By the end of the 1990s, Promise Keepers had faded from the headlines, but now thirty years later they are staging a revival. Ms. sat down with Jackson Katz to get his take on the Promise Keepers revival. "Elements on the Trumpist right understand very well that right-wing, white evangelical men are an incredibly important constituency within the larger MAGA coalition. ... The 'crisis in masculinity' has now become a crisis in democracy."

On Jan. 6, 2023, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis orchestrated a rightwing takeover of New College of Florida in Sarasota, the state’s only public liberal honors arts college. DeSantis appointed six new members to the college's board of trustees who promptly voted to eliminate the diversity, equity and inclusion office and the gender studies program. On August 15, administration at New College of Florida in Sarasota destroyed hundreds of books that had been housed in the Gender and Diversity Center on campus, placing them in a huge dumpster for disposal.

In nearly a dozen states, voters this fall will have a chance to protect abortion rights and advance equality for women through ballot measures.

Misogynist Manifesto: Right-Wing Republican Blueprint Project 2025 Says Yes to ‘Biblically-Based Marriages’ and No to Reproductive Rights

Project 2025's plans for women students and workers would devastate their educational opportunities, harming their careers and earning power.

PUBLISHED by In response to the Supreme Court overturning the constitutional right to abortion in June 2022 and many states banning and