My Voice.
But my daughter, when I told her her of our topic and my difficulty with it, said, 'Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don't speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside'"
From Audry Lorde's "Sister outsider"
This is Women's His(her)tory Month. Great.
Guess what? The EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT is STILL not a part of the Constitution. You know what the ERA says? Well in case you do not here it is:
Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.
Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification.
This was originally written in 1923 and STILL it is not a part of the constitution. The ERA needs 38 states to ratify, in the past it has gotten up to 35.
It's going up before several states again in the next few months -- Illinois is one of them.
http://www.equalrightsamendment.org/
I am so appalled that quick action is being taken to make gay and lesbian couples not able to be marry (through a supposed CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT!), and yet it's been almost 100 years and this ERA has still not passed.
Wanna know why? Because sexism and racism and homophobia are rampant in our society, amongst other things. The ERA won't necessarily make things "better" but it would be a damn good start to allowing PEOPLE to have equal opportunities if they choose to take advantage of them.
think what you want about this one....
From Audry Lorde's "Sister outsider"
This is Women's His(her)tory Month. Great.
Guess what? The EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT is STILL not a part of the Constitution. You know what the ERA says? Well in case you do not here it is:
Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.
Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification.
This was originally written in 1923 and STILL it is not a part of the constitution. The ERA needs 38 states to ratify, in the past it has gotten up to 35.
It's going up before several states again in the next few months -- Illinois is one of them.
http://www.equalrightsamendment.org/
I am so appalled that quick action is being taken to make gay and lesbian couples not able to be marry (through a supposed CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT!), and yet it's been almost 100 years and this ERA has still not passed.
Wanna know why? Because sexism and racism and homophobia are rampant in our society, amongst other things. The ERA won't necessarily make things "better" but it would be a damn good start to allowing PEOPLE to have equal opportunities if they choose to take advantage of them.
think what you want about this one....