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September 14, 2020 by Rachel Fadem
Lilith Votes: How I’m Feeling (Spoiler: Not Great!) as a First-Time Feminist Voter
August 18th marked the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which gave some women–white women–the hard-won right to vote in the United States, and I feel disappointed.
As a first-time voter, radical feminist, and survivor of sexual assault, I’d anticipated that this election would be more hopeful than it is. In 2016 I felt the possibility that women would have a more significant say in government and that our voices would be heard. Hillary Clinton was predicted to win the election, which would have been an historic validation. But Donald Trump became president, and the past four years have been even worse than anticipated. From the appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the defunding of Planned Parenthood, women’s voices and bodies are being left in the dust.
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September 9, 2020 by Arielle Silver-Willner
Lilith Votes: How to Make a Voting Plan, Today!
November is quickly approaching, and with it, so is the possibility of another surge of the Coronavirus. In preparation for this critical election, it is important to make a plan for how you will cast your vote. Whether this election will be your first or your fifteenth, use this guide to find all the information you’ll need to safely and successfully cast your ballot.
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April 2, 2019 by admin
When Women Changed the World by Voting
A centerpiece of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative “Because of Her Story,” is a new exhibition outlining the more than 80-year women’s suffrage movement. It is part of the larger struggle for equality that continued through the 1965 Civil Rights Act and arguably lingers today. Curator Kate Clarke Lemay: “‘Votes for Women’ is as much a study of the Constitution as it is a long social history of the activism of largely forgotten women. … who challenged norms to place women’s empowerment at the center of America’s promise of equality for all.” The catalog is published in collaboration with Princeton University Press. Through Jan. 5, 2020 at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC. npg.si.edu
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