This year marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment, a major milestone in the fight for gender-based equality. But the early women’s suffrage movement failed in many ways, erasing the work of Black suffragists and leaving room for the continued discrimination of marginalized groups of women.
Successive movements — like Womanism, which arose to account for the specific experiences of Black women, or those inspired by feminists in the 1970s, who continue to advocate for legislative policies like the Equal Rights Amendment — worked to pick up where those early leaders failed. Despite the gains, the work and needs of twentieth century Black feminists were still widely erased from the mainstream conversation. Transgender women were also frequently excluded. Today, intersectional feminists still face systemic barriers to gender equity. The country’s top power holders and industry leaders have Read more…
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