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An estimated 600,000 to 850,000 undocumented children are enrolled in K-12 education in the United States. They are not abstractions. They are kids sitting in classrooms next to American citizens, learning the lessons that will permit them to contribute to whatever society they are a part of as adults. Forcibly removing their access to education doesn’t just harm them individually, it leaves entire communities worse off.

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Laws like Louisiana's proposal are directly impacting women across the U.S.—some tragically losing their lives. Public health experts estimate that at least 59 women have died directly because of these bans, and that number is likely an undercount.

As right-wing conservatives work to push our country in increasingly dark directions, here at Ms. we’re turning to the stories of women who resist—a through-line that goes all the way back to before our nation’s founding. I’d encourage you to check out the latest stories in our Feminist 250 series, which reflect on the roles of Indigenous women, feminism’s abolitionist origins and more in our nation’s founding.

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This week:
—Chris Taylor wins her race for Wisconsin Supreme Court.
—Emily Gregory flips a Florida House seat in Trump's backyard.
—New data says that women could definitely win the 2028 presidential election.

... and more.

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Trump said the U.S. “can’t take care of daycare” because “we have to take care of one thing: military protection.”

He pinned the responsibility solely on the states, sharing that he told Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, “Don’t send any money for daycare. .... We’re a big country. We have 50 states. We have all these other people. We’re fighting wars. You got to let a state take care of daycare. And they should pay for it, too.”

In many states, the average cost of daycare runs upward of $1,000 a month per child.

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They weren’t wrong. Premiering at SXSW last month and directed by Patrick Bresnan, First They Came for My College is, at times, almost unbearable to watch—a slow, procedural dismantling of a public institution, carried out in meeting rooms and press conferences and budget lines.

But what stayed with me wasn’t only the anger—it was the stubborn, surprising insistence on community, joy and showing up anyway.

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The film bears witness to parents’ struggle with whether to stay in the United States or move abroad in face of bans on restrooms, sports and gender-affirming care for trans youth.

In the end, The Dads is about faith—faith in the experiment of the United States, faith in dads to know who their children are and how best to protect them, and faith in all dads to grow and learn who they are. 

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On the nation’s 250th anniversary and for the series on “America’s Founding Feminists,” Ms.’ guest editor Janell Hobson spoke with Garland-Thomson about disability history and its connections to women’s history.

She argues centering disability reshapes our understanding of history, citizenship and whose lives are recognized as foundational to U.S. democracy.

"Women's bodies have always offered men an opportunity to talk about nations, to talk about themselves, to talk about government."

"... These human variations that we think of as disabilities are often an opportunity for resourcefulness."

(This essay is part of the FEMINIST 250: Founding Feminists series, marking the 250th anniversary of America by reclaiming the revolution through the women and gender-expansive people whose ideas, labor and resistance shaped U.S. democracy.)

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This month:
—Seoul holds the 41st Women’s Strike in South Korea for International Women’s Day.
—Hospital patients suffer during Cuba’s three major blackouts.
—The U.S. is at fault for the missile strike that hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh Girls’ School in Minab, Iran, on Feb. 28, killing 175 people.
—Yanar Mohammed, a leading Iraqi feminist and human rights defender, was killed in an armed attack in Baghdad.
—IOC restricts transgender participation in Olympics.
—Amid widespread displacement, poverty and institutional collapse during the ongoing war in Gaza, families are increasingly turning to child marriage for their daughters.

... and more.

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Staffed by volunteers, many of these community networks offer highly-trained abortion doulas to provide emotional and informational support to all those with whom the groups share abortion pills, and offer specially trained doulas for survivors of sexual and domestic violence.

"Pregnancy is one of the most dangerous times for someone experiencing domestic violence," one doula told Ms., and "one of the top three reasons that people seek abortion is due to abuse in their relationship."

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