#RuthBaderGinsburg is walking w/ the ancestors now. We thank you, mother Ruth, for your indomitable spirit. We honor you for daring to dream a world where law sees women as FULLY human. You held on as long as you could; made good on your promise to fight till your last day. 1/
Thank you, Ma’am. ((Deep bow))
The stakes for BIPOC and women and LGBTQ and disabled people and immigrants just went through the roof.
EVERYTHING IS AT STAKE.
Civil Rights
Voting Rights
Women’s Rights
Disabled People’s Rights
Indigenous Rights
Environmental Rights 2/ #RIPRGB
*** The illustration in tweet 1 of #RuthBaderGinsburg was created for National Geographic's book In Praise of Difficult Women by Karen Karbo.
ILLUSTRATION BY KIMBERLY GLYDER
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1/ On @MSNBC Michael Beschloss just told the story of Gandhi sending the Queen a wedding present—a piece of cloth that he spun himself. Gift was downplayed at the time. Beschloss said gift was sign of how Queen made everyone feel special. 😧 #Queen#funeral
2/ I usually love Michael B’s take on everything on @MSNBC. But this is a GROSS oversimplification of that moment. #QueenElizabethII
3/ When the British colonized India they outlawed the spinning of Indian tapestries. Britain’s Indian “subjects” (non-citizens) were only allowed to grow the raw cotton. Then it was exported to Europe, spun in similar style and sold back to Indians at a profit. #queensfuneral
2/ While I have reflected that my relationship with Jesus has moved from boyfriend-ish to brown liberator, Bob reminds where the whole evangelical lovey-dovey image of Jesus comes from. #churchasbrideofchrist#bethmoore
3/ So, why did White Evangelical’s pounce on a reference to crushing on Jesus that any one of us could find at ANY church Women’s conference? And why now? #bethmoore#loveydoveyjesus
If the impact of well-intentioned people following white supremacists is racial and gender oppression, then those followers are guilty of racial and gender oppression.
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1/ I recently spoke on the intersections of race/gender oppression in US. The very first RACE Law in the nation’s foundational history was passed in VA 1662. It was also the very first GENDER-based law and the first CITIZENSHIP law passed on this soil.
2/ That 1662 law created race-based slavery, by locating citizenship in the womb of the mother. Citizens could not be enslaved. So, if your mother was enslaved, she wasn’t a citizen and you were not a citizen. So, you could be enslaved. Plus, they outlawed interracial marriage.
3/ The 1662 law was in full force for 200+ years until passage of 13th and 14th Amendments, which ended race-based citizenship and outlawed slavery. Interracial marriage wasn’t legalized until the Loving v. Virginia (1967) Supreme Court ruling 305 years after VA’s 1662 race law.