For Day 1 of #BlackHistoryMonth I’m celebrating the Black pioneers who have brought the Equal Rights Amendment through a century of struggle & are constitution makers— Pauli Murray, Barbara Jordan @Senatorspearman @LtGovStratton @JCarrollFoy & @JennMcClellanVA & many more #ERANow
For Day 1 of #BlackHistoryMonth I’m celebrating the Black pioneers who have brought the Equal Rights Amendment through a century of struggle & are constitution makers— Pauli Murray, Barbara Jordan @Senatorspearman @LtGovStratton @JCarrollFoy & @JennMcClellanVA & many more #ERANow
For Day 1 of #BlackHistoryMonth I’m celebrating the Black pioneers who have brought the Equal Rights Amendment through a century of struggle & are constitution makers— Pauli Murray, Barbara Jordan @Senatorspearman @LtGovStratton @JCarrollFoy & @JennMcClellanVA & many more #ERANow
For Day 1 of #BlackHistoryMonth I’m celebrating the Black pioneers who have brought the Equal Rights Amendment through a century of struggle & are constitution makers— Pauli Murray, Barbara Jordan @Senatorspearman @LtGovStratton @JCarrollFoy & @JennMcClellanVA & many more #ERANow
For Day 1 of #BlackHistoryMonth I’m celebrating the Black pioneers who have brought the Equal Rights Amendment through a century of struggle & are constitution makers— Pauli Murray, Barbara Jordan @Senatorspearman @LtGovStratton @JCarrollFoy & @JennMcClellanVA & many more #ERANow
Read more about Pauli Murray, Barbara Jordan & @Senatorspearman in my recent piece for @TheAdvocateMag https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/1/27/era-queer-and-it-always-has-been
The ERA Is Queer and It Always Has Been

It's been a year since Virginia became the final state needed to ratify the ERA, and trans politician Danica Roem was a key factor. 

https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/1/27/era-queer-and-it-always-has-been
Read more about Pauli Murray's ERA advocacy & the struggle of Black women for the amendment in this @VirginiaLawRev by the indomitable @JulieCSuk https://www.virginialawreview.org/articles/a-dangerous-imbalance-pauli-murrays-equal-rights-amendment-and-the-path-to-equal-power/
A Dangerous Imbalance: Pauli Murray’s Equal Rights Amendment and the Path to Equal Power - Virginia...

In January 2020, Virginia became the thirty-eighth and final state needed to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (“ERA”).1 1.See H.D.J. Res. 1, 2020 Gen. Assemb., Reg. Sess. (Va. 2020).Show More...

https://www.virginialawreview.org/articles/a-dangerous-imbalance-pauli-murrays-equal-rights-amendment-and-the-path-to-equal-power/
These women are leading the way on #ERA today!

@Senatorspearman NV ✅
@LtGovStratton IL ✅
@jcarrollfoy @JennMcClellanVA @SenatorLocke VA ✅
Sen @VictoriaLSteele AZ
Rep @GCobbHunter SC
Sen @xjelliot AK
Rep @CunninghamNCRep NC
@SenAudrey2eet & @RepDotieJoseph FL

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