Ava Slocum

This is such an amazing and important article!

Sacrificing Women for the Church of Men: Medical Conscience Rights and Christian Hypocrisy One Tennessee woman’s story about being unmarried and denied prenatal care spotlights how religious freedom is weaponized under Trump.

Bigotry doesn’t always present as a Unite the Right rally or violence in our nation’s capital. Sometimes, it comes with a demure smile and a sweet, “It’s just my personal belief.”

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Young Men May Not Be as Conservative as You Think Gen Z men in their teens and twenties are leaning further right than ever… or so mainstream media would have you believe. For months before and since the November 2024 election, news articles, podcas...

Although the majority of respondents indicated they support Trump, a “considerable” number of young men polled said they voted for Trump in November but currently dislike him.

War on Women Report: State Department Mass-Burns Contraceptives; GOP Budget Decimates Medicaid; Texas Crisis Pregnancy Center Funds Paid for CEO’s Smoke Shop War on Women Report: State Department Mass-Burns Contraceptives, Food Aid; ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Decimates Medicaid; Texas Crisis Pregnancy Center Funds Paid for CEO’s Smoke Shop

Important July updates in last month's WOW Report!

Young Men May Not Be as Conservative as You Think Gen Z men in their teens and twenties are leaning further right than ever… or so mainstream media would have you believe. For months before and since the November 2024 election, news articles, podcas...

Thank you so much to John Ray from the Young Men Research Project for speaking with me for this @msmagazine.com article!

I'm so grateful for the opportunity to have written this essay for the Aug/Sept print issue of Girls' Life Magazine (on newsstands now!). It's about an eating disorder I had during college (which I'm very recovered from now) but I'm hoping this article might be helpful for other people.

The Great American Jeans Debate: Racializing Beauty and Democratizing ‘Good Genes’ in Commercial Media A viral American Eagle ad pits Sydney Sweeney against Beyonce, revives eugenicist undertones and reignites questions about beauty in America.

As a denim ad glorifies whiteness under the guise of ‘great genes,’ feminists are left asking: Whose America is this?

Meet Milwaukee’s New Abortion Clinic and Its Determined Medical Director: 'Everybody Needs Abortions' Roe v. Wade fell in June 2022. An 1849 Wisconsin abortion ban went into effect. Cue: Milwaukee’s new abortion clinic and its medical director.

In a state still reeling from Roe’s fall, one OB-GYN is building a future where no one is turned away—regardless of income, immigration status or circumstance.

Trump’s History of Misogyny Was Obvious Long Before the Epstein Files Scandal President Donald Trump’s History of Misogyny and Violence Against Women Was Obvious Long Before the Jeffrey Epstein Files Scandal

Long before the Epstein scandal cracked Trump’s image among his base, feminists and gender violence prevention advocates had been warning about his misogyny and the dangers of normalizing it.

Pregnant and Unmarried? In Tennessee, That’s Now Grounds for Denial of Care. Tennessee's anti-abortion law allows doctors to deny treatment based on 'conscience.' Now an unmarried woman has been denied prenatal care.

A new law allows doctors to deny treatment based on ‘conscience.’ Now a woman has been denied prenatal care.

A 35-year-old mother in Tennessee was denied prenatal care simply because she’s not married.

All women, regardless of if they are married or not, deserve health care.

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Keeping Score: States Ramp Up Antiabortion Efforts; Black Women Forced Out of the Workforce; Only a Quarter of Americans Say Trump Has Helped Them In every issue of <em>Ms.</em>, we track research on our progress in the fight for equality, catalogue can’t-miss quotes from feminist voices and keep tabs on the feminist movement’s many milestones. ...

Texas state Rep. Giovanni Capriglione, who wrote the state’s abortion ban, was accused of paying for multiple abortions.

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A lot of important news this month!

The Mythology of Rape Exceptions An excerpt from Kylie’s forthcoming book, Coercion

An excerpt from my forthcoming book is in the Abortion, Every Day newsletter tonight!

Why Is the Trump Administration Destroying Almost $10 Million of Contraceptives? After the richest man in the world shuttered the U.S. agency that provides aid for the world’s poorest, the government is now going to spend money destroying the contraceptives, medications and food i...

They’re also burning 500 tons of food aid meant for hungry children.

'No More Shame!' The Transformative Lesson of Gisèle Pelicot, the French Survivor of Mass Rape A phone call one autumn morning from local police requesting that Dominique Pelicot, then 67, husband to Gisèle, also 67, report to the local station interrupted their daily routine. A surprised Gisèl...

“You’re not drugging me by any chance, are you?” Gisèle Pelicot once asked her husband. He had broken down in tears, asking, “How can you accuse me of such a thing?”

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Men Are Impersonating ICE to Attack Immigrant Women. MAGA Emboldened Them. Multiple men have been arrested in at least three states since President Donald Trump's inauguration for allegedly posing as immigration enforcement officers to perpetrate sexual violence against immigrant women.The Trump administration is emboldening and reinvigorating such violence by providing more tools to harm women of color, including both systemic tools (mass detention and deportation) and a cover for any man looking to kidnap immigrant women in broad daylight.

Men are posing as immigration officers to intimidate, kidnap and assault women.

When government officials snatch people off the streets without a warrant or showing a badge, it emboldens criminals to do the same.
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'No More Shame!' The Transformative Lesson of Gisèle Pelicot, the French Survivor of Mass Rape A phone call one autumn morning from local police requesting that Dominique Pelicot, then 67, husband to Gisèle, also 67, report to the local station interrupted their daily routine. A surprised Gisèl...

A 72-year-old survivor who exposed France’s largest mass rape case has turned her ordeal into a rallying cry—and is now celebrated with France’s highest civilian honor.

Fast Facts About Bea Feitler, the Pioneering Graphic Designer You’ve Never Heard Of For our Summer 2025 issue, Ms. is going retro. The cover for the latest print issue is an homage to the October 1975 issue, which offered a “Special Issue on Men.” Both covers, 50 years apart, show a ...

So much fun to work on this piece about Bea Feitler, the former @msmagazine.com art director who designed the original October 1975 cover that the new Summer 2025 print cover is paying homage to.

Inside Liberty University’s Secret Maternity Home Imagine you’re a pregnant teenager in 1972. Abortion isn’t an option, and you’re not ready to get married… so you might turn to a maternity home for unwed mothers. You’ll live there until the baby is ...

Former residents say Liberty’s Godparent Home used shame and faith to force adoptions.

Thank you so much!

Texas is Treating Abortion as Capital Murder They're laying the groundwork to put women and doctors in jail -- or on death row -- at the same time as abortion bans are leaving miscarrying women bleeding out in ERs.

"They're laying the groundwork to put women and doctors in jail -- or on death row -- at the same time as abortion bans are leaving miscarrying women bleeding out in ERs." #MsReads via @jillfilipovic.bsky.social

Men Are Impersonating ICE to Attack Immigrant Women. MAGA Emboldened Them. Multiple men have been arrested in at least three states since President Donald Trump's inauguration for allegedly posing as immigration enforcement officers to perpetrate sexual violence against immi...

Multiple men have been arrested in at least three states since Trump’s inauguration for allegedly posing as immigration enforcement officers to perpetrate sexual violence against immigrant women.

An Open Letter to Rep. Kat Cammack From a Medical Doctor: It’s Abortion Bans That Make Doctors Afraid to Act, Not ‘the Radical Left’ No woman may escape the cruelty of the nebulous and varying restrictions on reproductive healthcare in the post-Roe world—as Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) discovered in May 2024 when faced with a life-thr...

My latest for @msmagazine.com is an earnest plea for understanding from Rep. Kat Cammack.

The uncertainty of the #reprorights landscape & cruelty of politicians like Ken Paxton are scaring doctors. Not liberal fearmongering.

#medsky #obsky #kenpaxton #pregnancy

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Inside Liberty University’s Secret Maternity Home Imagine you’re a pregnant teenager in 1972. Abortion isn’t an option, and you’re not ready to get married… so you might turn to a maternity home for unwed mothers. You’ll live there until the baby is ...

Grateful for the chance to work on this @msmagazine.com piece about @tjraphael.bsky.social and @wonderymedia.bsky.social's podcast Liberty Lost, which covers the terrifying history of maternity homes in the U.S.

This Organization Took Out Pro-Abortion Newspaper Ads—in the Hometowns of the Justices Who Voted Down Roe To celebrate the nationwide accessibility of abortion pills—even three years after Dobbs—Mayday Health took out a series of cheeky ads in the hometown newspapers of each of the five Supreme Court just...

Wrote about Mayday Health's pro-abortion newspaper ads for @msmagazine.com!

Great to work on this in June with Cat Ross! We had a lot of big news updates last month...

Big thank you to @murray.senate.gov for her dedication to keeping reproductive health centers OPEN and OPERATING!

“Defunding” Planned Parenthood would shut down scores of clinics and deny more than a million people access essential health care. We cannot let this stand!

🚨The GOP provision to DEFUND Planned Parenthood is staying in the Big Ugly bill. Clinics will shutter. Women will lose access to cancer screenings, birth control, and basic care.

I will be forcing a vote to try to strip it out.

Fight like hell. We need to kill this bill.

War on Women Report: MAGA Republicans Hope to Turn Miscarriage Into a Crime and Gut Planned Parenthood MAGA Republicans are back in the White House, and Project 2025 is their guide—the right-wing plan to turn back the clock on women’s rights, remove abortion access, and force women into roles as wives ...

A lot of important news from June in this month's WOW Report: