Remember the Ladies
Ordinary Equality
Acast Creative Studios
4.0 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Follow us on Twitter at @OrdEquality for everything you need to know about the ERA as we watch history in the making.
Special thanks to Equality Now, an international human rights organization that works to protect and promote the rights of women and girls around the world. To learn more about what you can do to support the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, check out www.equalitynow.org/era.
Also, special thanks to Grace Lynch and Alex Black for their impeccable dramatic readings.
To dive deeper into some of the topics discussed in this episode, check out:
“The Equal Rights Amendment Can’t Be Defeated by Anti-Trans Scare Tactics” (Kate Kelly and Danica Roem * Teen Vogue * 2020)
“Virginia Approves the E.R.A., Becoming the 38th State to Back It” (Timothy Williams * New York Times * 2020)
Standoff (Jacqueline Keeler * Torrey House Press * 2020)
Women’s Lives, Men Laws (Catharine MacKinnon * Belknap Press * 2007)
Upcoming:
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts (Rebecca Hall * Simon & Schuster * 2020)
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| 0:00.0 | Before we get started, I wanted to let you know that there are mentions of sexual assault in today's episode. |
| 0:08.3 | You want a revolution, I want a revelation, so listen to my declaration. |
| 0:13.1 | We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal. |
| 0:17.6 | And when I mean Thomas Jefferson, I'm a compel him to include women in the sequel |
| 0:21.8 | work |
| 0:22.5 | you must remember that men to |
| 0:26.2 | you must remember that |
| 0:30.1 | men the Constitution was written |
| 0:32.6 | that women were regarded as property |
| 0:36.2 | the struggle for an equal rights amendment traces back women were regarded as property. |
| 0:44.3 | The struggle for an equal rights amendment traces back to 1923 when feminist Alice Paul wrote the words that became ERA. |
| 0:46.8 | Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or bridged by the United States or any |
| 0:53.0 | state on account of sex. |
| 0:55.0 | So as we want today, remember, forward together, backward, never. |
| 1:01.0 | If you could change one thing about the Constitution, what would it be? |
| 1:05.0 | I would add an equal rights amendment. |
| 1:08.0 | Can you say that? |
| 1:10.0 | The United! When do we want us? Equal Rights Amendment. Can you have a lot? ERA! |
| 1:11.6 | Where do we want us? |
| 1:13.6 | No! |
| 1:14.6 | Yesterday, all these years later, Virginia's legislature voted to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, |
| 1:20.6 | making it the 38th state to do so. |
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