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The Age of Roe: The Past, Present, and Future of Abortion in America Opening Discussion | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University In this opening discussion for the exhibition The Age of Roe: The Past, Present, and Future of Abortion in America, curator Mary Ziegler, will engage in conversation with Andrew R. Lewis and Kimberly Mutcherson.

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/28/1132232414/women-workforce-switching-jobs

Interesting article from NPR. Women are demanding more from their employers and not accepting the same ole same ole.

Women leaders switch jobs at record rates as they demand better from their workplaces Women leaders — already in short supply — are leaving their companies at rates not seen in years, a new report says. For every woman at the director level who gets promoted, two women directors leave.

Power to the Polls rally and march

When: Saturday, October 29, 2022, 10:30am-12:00pm
Where: Meet at Main (CCB) Plaza in Durham, and we will march the 0.3 miles over to the main branch of the Durham Public Library (an early voting site).

EARLY VOTING starts today, October 20, 2022 in Durham. Get out and vote; it's our chance to have the change we want.
(Credit: Image by rawpixel.com on Freepik.)

Meredith Tax, Longtime Feminist & Socialist, Dies at 80

Longtime feminist, socialist, author and activist Meredith Tax has died at the age of 80. She helped found a number of organizations, including the PEN American Center Women’s Committee, the Committee for Abortion Rights and Against Sterilization Abuse and the Women’s World Organization for Rights, Literature, and Democracy. Her books include the novels “Rivington Street” and “Union Square.” She also wrote about the role of Kurdish women in her book, “A Road Unforeseen: Women Fight the Islamic State.” She once wrote, “Men are taught to be active, to go and seek what they need; not to look pretty and wait for it to come into their vicinity. Men don’t observe each passing cloud over human relations as if their whole future depended on it. There’s a reason for that. It doesn’t. Women are hyper-aware of their surroundings. They have to be. Walk down a street without being tuned in and you’re in real danger; our society is one in which men r**e, mug and murder women whom they don’t know every day.” The words of Meredith Tax. She died on Sunday at the age of 80.

Image Credit: Jewish Women’s Archive

Tuesday, September 20th is National Voter Registration Day. The ERA Coalition and Political Science Dept of Howard University are hosting a roundtable on Tuesday at noon. Register to attend.

Getting Out The Vote for Equality Roundtable Join Howard University, Black Girls Vote, Gen Z for Change, and the ERA Coalition for a roundtable discussion on gender equality and voting!

Finally decades old r**e kits are being processed and the offenders identified and arrested. Justice may come for some victims, but it's been too long coming...

As NC's decades-old r**e kits are tested, new DNA evidence emerges - Carolina Public Press N.C. Attorney General’s Office now has a website that tracks kit testing and arrests

VOTING is one of the most important things we can do. Remember that the people who are elected have the power to take away our rights. So voting for those who support, honor, trust and respect women are the ones we are voting for this fall. It took us so long to get this right, so go out and exercise it!

Honoring the first African-American female commercial pilot: Bessie Coleman.

All-Black, all-female American Airlines crew flies from Dallas to honor Bessie Coleman The airline hosted the Bessie Coleman Aviation All-Stars tour last week to celebrate the anniversary of Coleman earning her international pilot's license in 1921.