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This bonus episode of Looking Back, Moving Forward features a conversation between Ms. consulting editor Carmen Rios; professor, author, and activist Loretta Ross; and professor and Ms. contributor Janell Hobson, moderated by Ms. Executive Editor Katherine Spillar, about how the past informs the future—and what our history tells us about our present moment.
Their conversation was recorded during a celebration in Los Angeles marking the launch of the Ms. Magazine archive on ProQuest, available now at libraries and on campuses across the country. Together, they reflected on the lessons we’ve learned from feminist history, the importance of feminist media platforms like Ms., and their visions for the future of feminism.
Featured in this episode:
- Kathy Spillar, executive editor of Ms. and executive director of the Feminist Majority Foundation. Read her work in Ms.
- Loretta Ross, activist, professor, and author of multiple books on Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You’d Rather Cancel, co-author of Reproductive Justice: An Introduction and Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice, and editor of Radical Reproductive Justice: Foundations, Theory, Practices, and Critique. Follow her on Facebook and Instagram and read her work in Ms.
- Janell Hobson, Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York; author of When God Lost Her Tongue, Venus in the Dark, and Body as Evidence; and co-chair of the Ms. Committee of Scholars. Follow her on Bluesky and read her work in Ms.
- And your host, Carmen Rios, feminist superstar and Ms. consulting editor. Follow her on Twitter, Instagram, Threads, and Bluesky and read her work in Ms.
