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The Fight Goes
On
On Thursday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren
exited the 2020 presidential race, leaving two
white men as the frontrunners and many women across the progressive
movement wondering what path, if
any, a progressive
woman has to the presidency. “Today American women lost that chance
for representation, and right now it’s unclear when they’ll ever have
it,” writes Samhita Mukhopadhyay for TeenVogue. In
politics and beyond, women have to come to terms with America’s sexism over and
over again, and we as a nation still have a
lot to learn.
“Whoever the nominee is, their campaign is going to have to come to
terms with the intense misogyny so many female voters have dealt
with—and understand that it’s an issue we care deeply about,”
says GENMag columnist Jessica
Valenti.
- Nevertheless, she’ll
persist: Warren is, of course, already looking ahead. “Choose
to fight only righteous fights, because then when things get tough—and
they will—you will know that there is only one option ahead of you:
Nevertheless, you must persist,” she said in remarks
to her campaign team. “I’m sad that @ewarren is no
longer in the race, but I’m not disheartened,” tweeted
former Roosevelt Network Director Joelle Gamble. “I
know that she will still be a tireless advocate for a just future. I
also know that progressives winning does not rest in just one
candidate. It rests on all of us continuing to dream big and fight
hard.”
 Repeating Women’s
History
March
is Women’s History Month, and the conservative backlash to women’s
rights remains unrelenting with Roe v. Wade under
threat yet again. For the blog, Roosevelt Health
Equity Director Andrea Flynn explores why women can’t afford to relive
our pre-Roe history: “As we honor the history that women have
made—and that we have yet to make—let’s not forget that an attack on
abortion rights is also an attack on women’s financial security.
Roe paved a pathway for women to hold more individual,
social, and economic power, and the relentless attacks on that
landmark decision are at their core attempts to strip women of that
power and exert control over every aspect of our lives.” Read
on.
- Another angle:
For Slate, Dahlia Lithwick explains
why access to fundamental reproductive health care is
bigger than a single ruling: “We may feel powerless to change the
composition or the ideology of the current Supreme Court, or the
federal courts that will decide the scope and nature of women’s
rights. But the one power that should not be given away is our
awareness of how very much is on the line and the salience of so many
other cases that will affect women, their bodies, their incomes, and
their families for a generation.”
 Women Who
Lead
As a co-author of the Green New Deal,
Roosevelt Climate Policy Director Rhiana Gunn-Wright made GreenBiz’s
list of 25
women who are leading the way in today’s climate
movement. For
Roosevelt and well beyond, Gunn-Wright grounds her work at the
intersection of racial equality and environmental justice. “All of my
power analysis comes from Black feminism,” she told The Root in December. “I think that if not
for my background in Black feminism and other people’s backgrounds who
work on the Green New Deal, we wouldn’t have gotten to this place.”
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