Broken promises, intact ceilings

When Andrew Cuomo announced his resignation as governor of New York, some started hailing the forthcoming ascension of Lt. Governor Kathy Hochul as another glass ceiling broken for women. But let me be perfectly clear: this isn’t a victory for women. It is...

Chin Up, Shoulders Back

Kamala Harris taking the oath of office for the vice president. Screen shot from the JCCIC livestream. I wept today. I watched the first woman, the first Black woman, the first South Asian woman, take the oath of office for the vice presidency of the United States....

Hope on the Horizon

Kamala Harris during her acceptance speech, wearing “suffragette white.” While we can’t yet say the dust is settling on the 2020 elections, we are beginning to see the end. Though Biden and Harris have 279 electoral college votes as I write this (and...

RBG and SDOC: The OG Women of SCOTUS

Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Photo: Michael O’Neill / Corbis via Getty Images. A lot of people will be eulogizing Ruth Bader Ginsburg over the next days and weeks, and rightfully so. She was a trailblazer who stood up for the rights of...

30 October 2019: Where do we go from here?

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve had the first few lines of “You Must Love Me” from the film Evita stuck in my head. Eva Perón (played by Madonna) meant something very different when she sang the opening lines: Where do we go from here? This...

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