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In Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, these survivors found a voice: ‘I felt with her the deeply vulnerable pain of telling someone’

Ocasio-Cortez’s explicit language around trauma may help facilitate other women’s healing, experts added

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Health

1 in 10 college women face period poverty, a study shows. Here’s what that means.

Black and Latina women are most likely to report not being able to afford tampons and pads, research shows

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News

Women are missing from the GameStop news. Experts blame this ‘fratty’ subreddit.

The online forum is ‘not a fun place to be if you’re not a White man’

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News

A 9-year-old was pepper-sprayed instead of receiving help. It’s part of the ‘dehumanization of Black girls,’ experts say.

Treating the girl as a threat, rather than a child in crisis, fell into a familiar pattern

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Politics

State legislatures got redder in 2020. It’s a ‘dire reality’ for abortion rights, advocates say.

Advocates on both sides are watching these four states

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Spotlight

Priyanka Chopra Jonas called Ava DuVernay. We eavesdropped.

They chatted about ‘The White Tiger,’ Hollywood’s ‘lie’ and more

By Lena Felton

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Health

The latest pandemic work for women? Snagging vaccine appointments for their parents.

‘It’s on me not because any brother or male relative refused to, but because I don’t think it occurred to them,’ said one woman

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Work

The Air Force and Army just made an important change to their ‘grooming’ standards for women

The new rules are a step toward the armed services recognizing the diversity of servicemembers

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Health

Why South Carolina’s first female sheriff is calling the state’s antiabortion bill ‘absolute insanity’

A provision exempting rape and incest survivors will actually do more to harm them, experts say

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Spotlight  //  First-person

‘I May Destroy You’ is a searing portrayal of trauma. Shame on the Golden Globes for not recognizing its brilliance.

Micaela Coel’s series is essential viewing, and it should be treated as such by one of television’s biggest awards

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Work  //  Perspective

The Color of Money with Michelle Singletary: What resources can help my family while I’m unemployed?

From salary to debt, The Post’s award-winning personal finance columnist tackles your concerns

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Advice  //  Perspective

Ask Dr. Andrea: The inauguration went off without a hitch. Why am I still feeling anxious?

The stress never really stopped, even once I knew things were safe

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Comics  //  Perspective

I experienced homelessness as a teen. I’m still processing the trauma.

Homeless people are often treated as if they don’t exist. It’s dehumanizing.

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Evan Rachel Wood names Marilyn Manson in abuse allegations: ‘I am done living in fear of retaliation’

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Olympics

Tokyo Olympics chief says women talk too much at meetings, calls it ‘annoying’

Yoshiro Mori, president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee, said women have a tendency to make meetings run unnecessarily long

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By The Way

Amsterdam will move its red-light district out of the city center, citing tourist behavior

The city’s council has gained bipartisan support to shutter and relocate its famous brothels

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