This March 8th, International Women’s Day, let’s talk about these last few months in women’s rights.
Category: Blog
How Gen Z is taking up the mantle in the fight for the Equal Rights Amendment
I was born in 2005, around 80 years after the Equal Rights Amendment was first introduced. I was fourteen when Virginia, the 38th and final state, ratified the amendment. To this day, the ERA has yet to be enshrined in the United States Constitution.
A hope for the State of the Union address
It is our hope that Biden includes the ERA as the means to solving women’s inequality in tonight’s State of the Union Address. We hope that in Wednesday’s analysis of his speech, we will write about his use of the Equal Rights Amendment in women’s equality, rather than when he should have used it.
ICYMI: Voting Rights Town Hall Recap
A discussion on voting rights – the history and future of voter protections and expansion of access.
BREAKING: Biden has nominated a Black woman to the Supreme Court!
You may have already heard, but President Biden just nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman ever elevated by a President to join the Supreme Court of the United States!
Few Black women have served on the federal bench, and of course none have ever served on the highest court in the land. This historic nomination will change that.
Happy birthday, Audre Lorde!
A Black lesbian woman, Audre Lorde’s writing has been very formative in political thought and queer theory. She is most known for her quote, “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.”
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