No more monster, I can breathe again. Oh, and you said that I was done.

That's a little bit of Kesha with her song, Praying, a showstopper at this year's Grammys,

where the White Rose Movement made its presence known.

The Movement for Women's rights in this country

is the subject of this podcast. I'm Mormonalny. An issue with a long history. It goes back to

Abigail Adams, who wrote to her husband, one of the founding fathers, do not put such unlimited

power into the hands of the husbands. Women will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.

Of course, women were not allowed to vote until 1920. So what about other rights for women?

Some 80% of Americans think they are guaranteed by the Constitution. But despite the efforts of

Abigail Adams and many others that we'll hear

about today, they are not. Kimberly Williams Crenshaw is a professor of law at UCLA, faculty

director at the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at Columbia Law School.

She is the founder and executive director of the African American Policy Forum. That's part of the Equal Rights Amendment Coalition.

A lot of titles for you, Kimberly Williams Crenshaw.

Thanks a lot for joining us.

Thanks for having me on.

So a little bit of constitutional history here.

Women were intentionally left out just like African Americans.

They were.

You know, I just started my civil rights class yesterday, and I was talking to the students

about what we the people actually meant, and in fact, we the people was basically he,

the people.

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