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It's the 100-year anniversary of the 19th amendment and I really wish more places would point out that the 19th amendment only gave WHITE women the right to vote. The narrative is changing, but there's lots of history to comb through. 1/5 https://www.teenvogue.com/story/19th-amendment-anniversary-benefited-white-women
Black women could not vote until 1965; Indigenous women had to wait even longer. To this day restrictions remain to various groups of people, barring or making it extremely difficult to exercise the right to vote. 2/5
My mother raised me on feminist picture books, and as a child I was fascinated by the women's suffrage movement. By women who fought the status quo and demanded more. Only later did I find out how many people they excluded -- it wasn't part of the picture-book narrative. 3/5
If I were born 100 years ago, would I have been able to vote? I'm not white and I'm not Black. So where would a segregated, openly racist society have put me? What would they have seen when they looked at my brown Egyptian skin? 4/5
As women celebrate this centennial milestone, I hope they also read a bit more into the history of it -- and call out any platforms that frame women's suffrage in a way that excludes all but one group of women. 5/5
The @washingtonpost has a GREAT thread of stories here which I encourage you to check out. https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1295771228062588931
