Ms. asked some of our favorite feminists—from abortion activists and providers to climate crisis specialists and environmentalists—what they see as top priorities and what changes they’re hoping for in 2022.
“After all of the challenges of the last few years, I hope that the new year brings a new recognition of the realities women and families face and a new commitment to building a country and a care infrastructure that really supports them., affordable child care and universal pre-K, so that we end the days of forcing parents to choose between their families and their paychecks.
Abortion rights protesters demonstrate outside the Texas State Capitol in Austin on Sept. 1, the day S.B. 8 took effect in Texas. “As a Black feminist, I am most concerned about the backtracking of our democracy as we witness states controlled by conservative Republicans pass laws that set up barriers to our most basic rights.
“Black women, femmes and gender-expansive people are facing dual attacks on the freedom to control our bodies through abortion barriers and the freedom to control our destiny through voter suppression. As Black feminists, we know that we cannot separate abortion access and voting access—they are inextricably linked.Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
—a decision that could allow a now ultra-conservative Court to overturn the 1973 landmark decision inand ban abortion rights in this country. But we must examine how we got here.
“Black activists have faced fire hoses, police attack dogs, lynch mobs and bloody beating on the Pettus bridge to win the right to vote and we are prepared to face them again. But will others join us?As a Black feminist, I have two wishes for 2022—the passage of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to protect our right to vote and the education of white women voters so they understand that our very democracy is in jeopardy.
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