Contributing editor @nytopinion; recovering gender editor. I write on culture n politics & teach journalism at NYU. Author, Feminist Fight Club & This Is 18.
Feb 5, 2021 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
Late last year, as the pandemic inched on, we set up a hotline where working moms could call in and scream, laugh, cry or vent for a solid minute. We called it The Primal Scream Line.
And scream they did.
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Hundreds called in. They cried in frustration. They sang songs. They locked themselves in closets and shouted into the phone.
They complained about the STICKINESS everywhere. The mountains of laundry. Some wondered if they were really cut out to be parents.
Aug 18, 2020 • 16 tweets • 7 min read
Today is the centennial of the #19thAmendment’s ratification — which promised suffrage to American women.
Like most people, I learned about this history in school.
The story went like this:
The fight for women’s voting rights in this country began in 1848 in Seneca Falls, NY, and ended in 1920. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were leaders. Suffrage gave all women in America the vote. The end.
