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FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION The Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is dedicated to research, public education, communication and action to advance women’s equality, nonviolence, reproductive health and rights, and empowerment of women and girls in all sectors of society. All programs of the FMF include a global perspective and activities to promote leadership development, especially among young women. On December 31, 2001, the Feminist Majority Foundation assumed ownership of Liberty Media for Women, LLC, the publisher of Ms. magazine. The combined forces of FMF and Ms. magazine are committed to ensuring that Ms. thrives as the forum for feminist ideas and as a springboard for the development and spread of feminist ideas and action. BOARD OF DIRECTORS Eleanor Smeal, President Peg Yorkin, Chair of the Board Katherine Spillar, Executive Vice President and Secretary Rae Wyman, Treasurer Helen Cho Ina Coleman Dolores Huerta Dorothy Jonas Marta Kauffman Carol Leif Mavis Leno Lorraine Sheinberg PUBLISHER Liberty Media for Women, LLC, which is wholly owned by the Feminist Majority Foundation PUBLISHER Eleanor Smeal PUBLISHING COORDINATOR Erica Hsu COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Linda Bowker, Susie Gilligan, Jelena Tadic PUBLICITY INTERNS Nora Boedecker, Melissa Markstrom, Holly Tomlinson ATTORNEYS Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP Susan A. Grode, David Halberstadter, Stacey McKee Knight, Francie R. Gorowitz Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon LLP Carole E. Handler Silk, Adler & Colvin Rosemary Fei, David Levitt WWW.MSMAGAZINE.COM ONLINE PROGRAM MANAGER Courtney O’Callaghan WEB EDITOR Alysse Bortolotto ONLINE NEWS EDITOR Beth Soderberg WEB INTERNS Melissa Hampton, Maggie Skelton FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION MS. MAGAZINE Supporters and members of the Ms. community can make a tax-deductible contribution to the Feminist Majority Foundation earmarked for Ms. magazine to increase investigative reporting, to help reach battered women’s shelters and women’s prisons, and to continue to make history for women. For information on contributions, bequests and legacies for Ms. magazine, please contact Susie Gilligan at (310) 556-2515, or by email at sgilligan@feminist.org. www.feminist.org www.msmagazine.com 10 | FALL 2009 www.feminist.org keeping score Lest We Forget “I call myself a feminist. Isn’t that what you call someone who fights for women’s rights?” —THE DALAI LAMA “In the 19th century, the paramount moral challenge was slavery. In the 20th century, it was totalitarianism. In this century, it is the brutality inflicted on so many women and girls around the globe: sex trafficking, acid attacks, bride burnings and mass rape.” —NICHOLAS KRISTOF and SHERYL WUDUNN, The New York Times “I don’t need maternity care, and so requiring that to be in my insurance policy is something that I don’t need and will make the policy more expensive.” —SEN. JON KYL (R-Ariz.) in Senate Finance Committee hearings on health insurance reform “I think your mother probably did.” —SEN. DEBBIE STABENOW (D-Mich.)’s retort “Rape is not something you can budget for.” —KATHERINE HULL of the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, criticizing states that bill survivors for their rape kits “[Caster Semenya] should not let them take away her medal. She is a woman and that’s it, full stop. A gender test cannot take away from you who you are.” —SANTHI SOUNDARAJAN on the International Association of Athletics Federations’ decision to subject South African gold medalist Semenya to gender testing; Soundarajan’s silver medal at the 2006 Asian Games was stripped from her because she was found to be intersex ©2009 MIKHAELA REID, BOILINGPOINTCARTOON@MAC.COM/DIST. BY WOMEN’S ENEWS