Mariah A. Lindsay, Author at Ms. Magazine https://msmagazine.com/author/mlindsay/ More Than A Magazine, A Movement Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:06:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://msmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cropped-ms-logo-32x32.jpg Mariah A. Lindsay, Author at Ms. Magazine https://msmagazine.com/author/mlindsay/ 32 32 The Epstein Files Matter Only If We Center Survivors https://msmagazine.com/2025/12/17/epstein-files-survivors-victims-women-on-the-issues-with-michele-goodwin-podcast/ Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:01:05 +0000 https://msmagazine.com/?p=390147 The latest episodes of the Ms. Studios podcast On the Issues with Michele Goodwin reclaim the Epstein files from the men who dominate the narrative.

This two-part series includes a conversation with Jess Michaels, a 1991 Epstein survivor, and Moira Donegan, a feminist writer and journalist with The Guardian.

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]]> A New Supreme Court Term Brings Familiar Trouble https://msmagazine.com/2025/10/13/supreme-court-2024-2025-2026-term-trump-dissent/ Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:04:08 +0000 https://msmagazine.com/?p=387200 The Supreme Court’s 2025–'26 term opens under the shadow of the Trump administration’s growing influence over the judiciary. Last term, the Court issued 140 emergency rulings—many of them unsigned—compared to just 55 full opinions. These “shadow docket” decisions often favored the Trump administration, even in cases where the stakes included the rights of transgender people, immigrants and federal employees.

Now, with several Trump-backed cases on the merits docket, legal experts Michele Goodwin and Steven Vladeck warn that the Court’s deference to presidential power could deepen.

From conversion therapy bans to voting rights and gender-affirming care, the consequences of this term’s decisions will reverberate far beyond the courtroom.

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]]> What Renee Bracey Sherman Wants You to Know About Liberating Abortion and the People Who Make It Possible https://msmagazine.com/2024/11/04/renee-bracey-sherman-abortion-book/ Tue, 05 Nov 2024 00:21:50 +0000 https://msmagazine.com/?p=370442 Renee Bracey Sherman and Regina Mahone recently released their co-authored book, Liberating Abortion: Claiming Our History, Sharing Our Stories, and Building the Reproductive Future We Deserve. In it, they offer a new perspective on the history of abortion and imagine a future where reproductive justice is realized.

Bracey Sherman and Mahone ask us to build a better future that begins with building community around abortion and reproductive freedom now.

Ms. sat down with Renee Bracey Sherman to discuss her new book, Liberating Abortion, the history of abortion and where we go from here.

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]]> Achieving Reproductive Freedom: Ending Global Gag Rule and Helms Amendment Once and for All https://msmagazine.com/2021/03/09/achieving-reproductive-freedom-ending-global-gag-rule-and-helms-amendment-once-and-for-all/ Tue, 09 Mar 2021 18:57:00 +0000 https://libertymediams.wpenginepowered.com/?p=215289 “The time has come,” Representative Jan Schakowsky, who re-introduced the Abortion is Health Care Everywhere Act, said. “Abortion is health care and the Helms Amendment now has got to go.”

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]]> Race, Sex and Policing: Where Do We Go From Here? https://msmagazine.com/2021/02/08/race-sex-police-violence-women-in-blue/ Mon, 08 Feb 2021 20:23:00 +0000 https://libertymediams.wpenginepowered.com/?p=209342 Discussions about policing rarely center women or members of the LGBTQ community.

Monday's "Race, Sex and Policing" panel and documentary "Women in Blue" grapple with the challenges involving women, policing and incarceration.

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]]> Dr. Premilla Nadasen—Recipient of the Ann Snitow Prize—Is Rethinking Awards and Prizes with a Feminist Lens https://msmagazine.com/2021/01/14/dr-premilla-nadasen-recipient-of-the-ann-snitow-prize-is-rethinking-awards-and-prizes-with-a-feminist-lens/ Thu, 14 Jan 2021 21:41:50 +0000 https://libertymediams.wpenginepowered.com/?p=204715 “We have to find ways to recognize the long history of collective feminist contributions and push back against structures of privilege, hierarchy and singularity, structures that reinforce classism, racism, sexism, transphobia and heterosexism.”

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]]> The Fight for Our Rights: Women, Mass Incarceration, and Criminal Justice https://msmagazine.com/2021/01/13/belly-of-the-beast-erika-cohn-the-fight-for-our-rights-women-mass-incarceration-and-criminal-justice/ Wed, 13 Jan 2021 20:21:37 +0000 https://libertymediams.wpenginepowered.com/?p=204477 Mass incarceration is not typically discussed in the context of the way it impacts and causes harm to women.

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]]> “We’re Building a Future Voting Culture”: How Barbara Arnwine and Others Mobilized Georgia’s Historic Win https://msmagazine.com/2021/01/07/voting-georgia-gotv-voter-mobilization-barbara-arnwine-transformative-justice-coalition-black-women/ Thu, 07 Jan 2021 19:09:48 +0000 https://libertymediams.wpenginepowered.com/?p=203724 Voice hoarse from being on the bullhorn on Election Day, Barbara Arnwine—president and founder of Transformative Justice Coalition—spoke to Ms. early Wednesday morning to discuss the election, what the results mean for the future of U.S. politics, and why when Black women organize and vote, everyone benefits.

"It took every bit of work we had in our bodies, every bit of energy we could give, every voice you could give."

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]]> Looking Back on 2020: The Status of Black Women Then, Now and Beyond https://msmagazine.com/2020/12/30/andrea-young-aclu-black-women-georgia-senate-runoffs/ Wed, 30 Dec 2020 12:54:00 +0000 https://libertymediams.wpenginepowered.com/?p=202952 "We’ve certainly seen that Black women are among the most effective and sophisticated political actors on the scene right now, across the country," Andrea Young, executive director of ACLU of Georgia, told Ms.

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]]> Black Voters Matter: The Legal Battle Against Voter Suppression in Georgia Wages On https://msmagazine.com/2020/12/08/barbara-arnwine-black-voters-matter-fund-transformative-justice-coalition-rainbow-push-coalition-voter-suppression-georgia-brad-raffensperger/ Wed, 09 Dec 2020 00:59:07 +0000 https://libertymediams.wpenginepowered.com/?p=200948 A lawsuit alleges Georgia unlawfully purged almost 200,000 voters from the voter rolls. "Every American should be upset about this," said Barbara Arnwine, one of the suit's three co-plaintiffs. "The state of Georgia did not do its job. It did not protect the constitutional rights of its citizens."

Ms. writer and attorney Mariah Lindsay sat down with Arnwine to talk Black Voters Matter et al. v. Raffensperger; exactly how Georgia became the center of attention; and the future of voting rights.

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