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🧵Mission-critical thread alert. 🧵

In the three months since @19thnews soft-launched, the world has changed.

But our mission — to elevate the stories and voices of the nation’s underrepresented women — has only become more critical. 19thnews.org 1/10

Women are losing more jobs. They account for 73% of health care workers falling ill with COVID. And they’re more worried than men — about feeding their families, caring for relatives, protecting livelihoods. Women of color are hardest hit. 2/10 npr.org/sections/healt…

That’s why, in these uncertain times, @19thnews is forging ahead. 3/10

We’ve turned our weekly newsletter into a thrice-weekly must-read — one that provides the headlines, context and analysis you need to understand the pandemic’s disproportionate effects on women. (Sign up here; it’s free!) 19thnews.org/subscribe 4/10

We’re breaking news on women and the 2020 election (yup, there are still campaigns underway!) with our national publishing partner, @washingtonpost. washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/… 5/10

We’re producing weekly “Portraits of a Pandemic” with our first local news partner, @PhillyInquirer, featuring women tackling COVID in the poorest big city in America. inquirer.com/health/coronav… 6/10

And we still plan to launch our own website later this year, where *all* of our journalism will be free to consume and free to republish at 19thnews.org. 7/10

Meanwhile, our national listening tour is going virtual.

**Stay tuned for details on that next week!**

And make sure you're signed up to our newsletter for the latest event invites and updates: 19thnews.org/subscribe 8/10

Is this a scary time to be launching a start-up? Hell yes it is! Do we need your help to keep our foot on the gas? PLEASE and THANK YOU. 19thnews.org/support-us 9/10

Every $19 helps. 🙏

Please join @19thnews today to help us keep women front of mind in this pandemic — and this election cycle. 19thnews.org/support-us 10/10