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Social justice lawyer. Founder. ❤️s equity. Fmr Elections Counsel @HouseAdm_Dems (#HR1) & @KamalaHarris Sen Aide. Tight shoe game. Can't be funny, am woman.🇬🇾
May 3, 2022 10 tweets 3 min read
1/ 🧵 quick takes: Alito statement, suggesting women have electoral & political power if they’re mad = HOST of issues. 1) this is not just a women’s issue. Women do not get pregnant alone. SO MANY other rights (gay & interracial marriage, contraception) on the line w/ this logic 2/Alito, (1 of 108 white male Justices) willfully ignores that people like him & complicit collaborators accrete power, deny it to others under guise of law, (even when there’s plain evidence we are being targeted) & then say “the system is fair, so use the system to fight back.”
Jun 17, 2021 21 tweets 7 min read
1/ THRILLED to share my 1st @BrennanCenter
report, out TODAY! It looks at HR1/S1 through an equity lens. What’s that mean?? America was formed by WE the People – yet for too long we deliberately excluded people based on sex, skin color & economic status. brennancenter.org/our-work/resea… 2/We feel those effects today – in disenfranchisement laws, voter ID laws hurting women & trans voters, & in voter purges w/ race impacts. We need to let people vote (louder for the folks in back, TY @staceyabrams!), but the system isn’t fixed until we address who can RUN, too!