Citizenship is a community act. Democracy gets its power from the people.

The shrinking of people participating in that process over time has landed us in a more polarized space.

This is How to Be a Citizen from Pantsyu Politics.

Over four episodes we talk about how to vote, how to debate, how to think about our relationship to our government and our communities.

Join us as we think about what America and 2020 should be and what we should be to America.

Hi everyone, this is Elise, Managing Director of Pantsyu Politics.

Before we jump into our How to Be a Citizen series, I wanted to let you know about some of the exciting bonus content we have over on our Patreon page to accompany this series.

For as little as a dollar a month, you can join our Patreon community and get access to a huge library of bonus content, including content specific to this How to Be a Citizen series.

So patrons of all levels will get access to deep dives on the Federalist papers.

You'll get to hear conversations Beth is having with her young daughters about what citizenship means.

And we have a series of amazing coloring pages we commissioned to go along with this series.

A special thank you to Carolyn Schwartz, aka Soul Mama for her creativity and beautiful work on those pages.

She took our very abstract ideas and made them come to life.

You can find more of her work, including her latest and 13th coloring book, Wash Your Dam Hands and other useful advice for surviving crazy times, a quarantine coloring book.

On her website, her sd page and social media pages, all of which we've linked in the show notes.

We'll be back to all of that exciting bonus content to go along with this series.

Make sure you join our amazing community of listeners supporting the show at patreon.com slash pimp suit politics.

We couldn't do what we do without your generous support.

This is Sarah and Beth, your listening to Pant suit politics, the home of Grace filled political conversations.

Hello everyone, we're so excited that you're joining us for our summer series.

If you remember last summer, we worked on the Bill of Rights.

This summer, we're going to go back even farther and start to think about the creation of our constitution and rolling forward through the federalist papers into how we vote today.

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