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Media Round-Up: Week of July 10th

  Happy Friday! Welcome to our Media Round Up. Each week we’re collecting and sharing our favorite gender + politics stories. Here’s what caught our eye this week:   Is the word ‘women’ being erased from the abortion rights movement? Matt Lavietes, NBC News The overturning of Roe v. Wade has sparked much debate over …

Midyear Check In: How Are Women Candidates for Governor Faring?

  We have less than four months to go until the general midterm election (!), and we are halfway through 2022. Time flies! Our team at BLFF is taking stock of where things stand for women candidates and incumbents. The last comparable midterm year, 2018, was the “Year of Women”—particularly in Congress and governor’s offices. …

Media Round-Up: Week of July 3rd

  Happy Friday! Welcome to our Media Round Up. Each week we’re collecting and sharing our favorite gender + politics stories. Here’s what caught our eye this week:   Some activists lean on ‘motherhood’ for authority in gun law debates Kaylin Bourdon, Washington Post As a result of the tragic elementary school shooting in Uvalde, …

Title IX: The Next Chapter

  Last month, Americans celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. This landmark legislation prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex in education as well as in activities that receive federal funds, but is Title IX antiquated? If not, what’s next? The short answer to the former (and, perhaps, …

Media Round-Up: Week of June 26th

  Happy Friday! Welcome to our Media Round Up. Each week we’re collecting and sharing our favorite gender + politics stories. Here’s what caught our eye this week:   Ketanji Brown Jackson to be sworn in as first Black woman on the Supreme Court Ximena Bustillo, NPR At noon yesterday Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was …

Inspiring LGBTQ Women In Politics

  Happy Pride Month from Gender on the Ballot! This election cycle, a record number of LGBTQ candidates are running for U.S. Congress. This is coming on the heels of a record number of LGBTQ people appointed to the Biden administration. As a potential increase for LGBTQ political representation looms, and we mark the end …

How Can We Get America’s First Black Woman Governor?

  A record number of Black women are running for office in 2022, including statewide executive roles, but there is one role that has eluded Black women the most: Governor. According to the Center for American Women in Politics (CAWP), of the 94 women who are statewide elected executives, only six are Black women. Prior …

Meet the ‘Grandmother of Juneteenth’: Opal Lee

  On June 17th, 2021, President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, making Juneteenth a federal holiday in America. Juneteenth is a celebration commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans in the United States and it is the first new federal holiday signed into law since Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was adopted …

Media Round-Up: Week of June 12th

  Happy Friday! Welcome to our Media Round-Up. Each week we’re collecting and sharing our favorite gender + politics stories. Here’s what caught our eye this week:   Title IX aimed to get women into grad schools. Over 50 years, it shaped their role in sports. Rachel Axon, Lindsay Schnell, Lydia Chebbine, The 19th* June …

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