contents I SPRING 22 VOLUME XXXI I • NUMBER 2


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5Following rules set by the Taliban in fall 2021, women and men—separated by a curtain—attend a class at a university in Kabul. This spring, the Taliban barred girls from returning to school after sixth grade.


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32 Ms. Harriet Tubman at 200 INTRODUCTION BY JANELL HOBSON


Ms. pays tribute to Harriet Tubman on the anniversary of her birth—with a series celebrating her legacy as a liberator, abolitionist, diviner, healer, nurse, naturalist, freedom fighter, military raid leader, spy, scout, suffragist, daughter, sister, wife, mother, aunt, friend and national icon.


34 dark energy A POEM BY ALEXIS PAULINE GUMBS


35 Harriet Tubman, Astronomer Extraordinaire BY CHANDA PRESCOD-WEINSTEIN


36 A Life Beyond Myths BY KATE CLIFFORD LARSON


37 Harriet Tubman’s Disability— and Why It Matters BY DEIRDRE COOPER OWENS


38 Justice and the Meaning of the Tubman $20 BY KEISHA N. BLAIN


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DEPARTMENTS FRONTLINES


39 Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court President Joe Biden honored his commitment to appoint a Black woman to the nation’s highest court. BY CHRISTIAN F. NUNES


HEALTH


40 No Picket Lines at the Virtual Abortion Clinic With a Roe v. Wade reversal looming and states passing abor- tion restrictions at a breakneck pace, women are increasingly going online to access abortion pills easily and safely. BY CARRIE N. BAKER


MONEY


42 Jobs for Men The economic recovery is still primarily benefiting male workers. Here’s how the U.S. can do better. BY MARTHA BURK


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43 BOOK REVIEW Carrie N. Baker on Bridget J. Crawford and Emily Gold Waldman’s Menstruation Matters: Challenging the Law’s Silence on Periods; Michele Goodwin on Dorothy Roberts’ Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World; Halley Sutton on Maria Adelmann’s How to Be Eaten


46 BOOKMARKS


Great reads for spring BY KARLA J. STRAND


48 LAST WORD


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