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VoteEquality + Artists4ERA
@voteequalityus.bsky.social
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VoteEquality is a nonpartisan 501c3 grassroots effort solely focused on publication of our fully ratified 28th Amendment (ERA) before President Biden leaves office. Let's make history!
https://voteequality.us
https://artists4era.org
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Let everyone know! The 28th Amendment is here to stay!
Reminder: equal rights for others doesn’t mean fewer rights for you. It’s not pie.
April 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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One more to choose from. We'd love it if all 28th Amendment advocates shared and used these as part of your social media outreach. Just remember to give us credit and share with us! Join us in continuing to fight!
Publish Equality! 28A Advocate feminist + badass + organizer A hero figure of a woman with long wavy hair and brown skin. She is wearing dark sunglasses, jeans, a lavender 28=A tee, and lavender slides. The accessories are a purple tote, a smart phone, a pocket constitution (which we know contains the Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment), a lavender and purple van for traveling to fight for equality, and a protest sign that says, "Hey Archivist, Publish Equality!"
April 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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One of our team who’s good at creating these did this one too with the notorious RGB. Which do you like better so far?
28A advocate Feminist plus bad ass plus organizer A superhero of a woman in a lavender T-shirt that says 28 equals ERA wearing jeans and lavender slip on sandals There is a black and white dog, a photo of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a purple tote, a smart phone, a lavender van, and a clipboard for collecting signatures. There is also a pocket constitution with what we know includes the 28th amendment as the equal rights amendment and a protest sign that says publish equality and leads to our website
April 20, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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28A Advocat, Feminist, Badass, Organizer

Let's go!!
superhero 28A advocate with ERA=28 t-shirt, a Publish Equality! protest sign, a pocket constitution with the 28th Amendment in it, a clipboard for collecting signatures, a purple bus for traveling to where the people are, and a purple tote, smart phone, and cat, because everyone needs those :)
April 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Did you change your name when you got married? You need to know this!⬇️

The House votes on the Save Act tomorrow April 10. This bill could make it harder for you to vote & disenfranchise 69 million women

Tell your Rep to protect your right to vote by voting NO!

Use 5calls.org or call 202-224-3121
H.R.22 - SAVE Act 119th Congress (2025-2026) | Get alerts BILL Hide Overview X Sponsor: Rep. Roy, Chip [R-TX-21] (Introduced 01/03/2025) Committees: House - House Administration Latest Action: House - 04/08/2025 Rule H. Res. 294 passed House. (All Actions) Tracker: 0 Introduced
April 9, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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“Our Future, Our Democracy” (No Autocracy!) 🌸🌼

limited edition offset lithograph
by Chuck Sperry @chucksperryart.bsky.social

available exclusively at @harmanprojects.bsky.social
link: harmanprojects.myshopify.com
“Our Future, Our Democracy” (No Autocracy!) limited edition offset lithograph by Chuck Sperry
April 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Yesterday was #EqualPayDay and for every $1 white men make:

Asian women: 94 cents
White women: 80 cents
Black women: 66 cents
Native and Latina women: 58 cents

Women get paid less, but across racial lines the pay is even LOWER. One way to fight that is pay transparency.
Women's Equal Pay Day How pay breaks down for women by the numbers Women Overall 83 cents Asian Women 94 cents White Women 80 cents Black Women 64 cents Native Women 58 cents Latina Women 58 cents Source: AAUW
March 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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So very happy to say that the special performance for the ERA project went wonderfully today. Thank you, Maureen and everyone who made this possible!
I wrote the lyrics to this piece about my grandmother (Cecil Norton Broy - pictured below), Alice Paul, the National Women's Party and the Equal Rights Amendment with the dream of performing it where all the things took place - at the Belmont Paul House in Washington DC. After having to debut it virtually in 2020 and singing it for audiences live in Oregon, Maryland and Texas, I'm finally getting to sing it there on March 16, 2025!!! It's FREE! And the ERA is a super duper timely right NOW! Please come see me in a few weeks. I'm tagging those of you that I hope will come. :) SPeCIAL PErFOrMaNCE OF THE ERA PROJECT A SONG CYCLE FOR SOPRANO AND PIANO AT THE BELMONT-PAUL WOMEN'S EQUALITY NATIONAL MONUMENT 144 CONSTITUTION AVENUE, NE WASHINGTON, D.C. SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 2025, 3 PM SOPRANO / LIBRETTIST MAUREEN BROY PAPOVICH COMPOSER RAIN NoX A white woman with long light hair wearing a black dress and a black jacket trimmed with gold is standing in front of a presentation. The quote behind her says “there is nothing complicated about ordinary quality“ Alice Paul 1885 to 1977. A young white woman with long light hair is wearing white and a sash that says votes for women. The woman who is giving the presentation is standing next to her. They are both smiling.
March 16, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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President Biden did declare that the legal requirements of the Equal Rights Amendment were met and there has been at least one lawsuit filed using it as an argument against discrimination
@potus from Instagram on his last working day in office PRESIDENT BIDEN DECLARES THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT IS NOW THE LAW OF THE LAND Guarantees All Americans Equal Rights and Protections Under the Law Regardless of Their Sex
March 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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A Special Performance of The ERA Project!

A Song Cycle for Soprano and Piano
The Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument
144 Constitution Avenue, NE, Washington, D.C.
Sunday, March 16, 2025, 3 PM
Soprano/Librettist Maureen Broy Papovich
Composer Rain Nox
Piano Lior Willinger
A SPECIAL PERFORMANCE OF THE ERA PROJECT A SONG CYCLE FOR SOPRANO AND PIANO AT THE BELMONT-PAUL WOMEN'S EQUALITY NATIONAL MONUMENT 144 CONSTITUTION AVENUE, NE WASHINGTON, D.C. SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 2025, 3 PM SOPRANO / LIBRETTIST - MAUREEN BROY PAPOVICH COMPOSER -RAIN NOX PIANO - LIOR WILLINGER
February 27, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Gwendolyn Sawyer Cherry was the first Black woman to win election to the Florida Legislature in 1970. She was a public high-school chemistry teacher for more than 20 years before starting law school.
Gwendolyn Sawyer Cherry head shot with coiffed hair that turns out at the chin, pearl earrings, and a suit jacket and blouse. She is smiling broadly.
February 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Anna Julia Cooper was an author, educator, sociologist, speaker, Black liberation activist, Black feminist leader, and one of the most prominent scholars in United States history. She was born enslaved, and yet became the fourth Black woman to ever earn a PhD. #BlackHistoryMonth
Miss A.J. Cooper c. 1902 by C.M. Bell https://www.loc.gov/item/2016702852/
February 18, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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While she died too young, we don't normally think of Audre Lorde as historical enough for #BlackHistoryMonth
Still, she described herself as, "Black, lesbian, feminist, socialist, mother, warrior, poet" and she worked her entire life to confronting injustice in the United States.
Audre Lorde By Elsa Dorfman - Own work, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1725145
February 18, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Today, we wish to honor artist and activist, Faith Ringgold. She spent her life doing both, participating in several feminist and anti-racist organizations, and creating art out of most mediums one can imagine.
By Original work: Faith RinggoldDepiction: 19h00s - Own work, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72957960 A painting divided in eight triangular sections to portray a variety of women. The women are depicted in professional and many other roles roles, intended to represent positive alternatives to incarceration. It was commissioned for the Women's Facility on Rikers Island.
February 15, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Today in #BlackHistoryMonth we honor Dollie Lowther Robinson, a politician and labor leader. She moved from North Carolina to New York in the 1930s. She graduated from Brooklyn College and received her LL.B. degree from New York Law School.
D. L. Robinson stands at a podium as a delegate for the 1967 New York State Constitutional Convention. She is a tall Black woman wearing a white dress with dark flowers. She is speaking while holding a microphone in her hand.
February 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Today's focus for #BlackHistoryMonth is Frederick Douglass. He brings us mutual empowerment and a reminder that we need to support and uplift one another on Galentine's Day.
An etching of a young Frederick Douglass. It has scribbled hearts around his head and says "Happy Galentine's Day from Human Rights Hero, Frederick Douglass". He is dressed formally, with a waistcoat, vest, and broad tie with a tie tack. He has a thin beard along his jaw line.
February 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Today's #BlackHistoryMonth hero is Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman ever to be elected to the U.S. Congress. She was also the first Black person to run for for a major party's - the Democratic Party - nomination for President of the United States, when she announced her candidacy in 1972.
Shirley Chisholm in 1972. She is a small Black woman with set curled hair, wire frame glasses, and a geometric patterned blouse or dress.
February 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Just saw the 28th Amendment "in the wild" thanks to @ezrayoung.bsky.social

Let's go!!!

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Case 1:25-cv-00342 Document 1 Filed 02/05/25 Page 1 of 34 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Mr. Sloan Manning, Plaintiff, U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Defendant. COMPLAINT OF MR. SLOAN MANNING This is an action under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e, et seq., the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, 29 U.S.C. § 701 et seq., the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq., and Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, 42 U.S.C. $18116. It also brings constitutional counts alleging sex discrimination and disability discrimination in violation of the United States Constitution, including the Fifth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, Nineteenth Amendment, and the Twenty eighth Amendment.
February 9, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Today's hero from "Ordinary Equality" is Barbara Jordan. In November 1972-the same year the ERA passed in Congress-Barbara Jordan was elected to the US House. She was the 1st ever Black woman from the South* elected to Congress & the 1st ever Black woman to serve on the powerful Judiciary Committee
A black and white headshot of Barbara Jordan. She is wearing a conservative suit and pearl drop earrings
February 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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@katekelly.bsky.social's book "Ordinary Equality" also writes of Mary Church Terrell who fought for racial equality and women's suffrage throughout her life, understanding the intersectionality of race and gender discrimination.

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Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) said, "A white woman has only one handicap to overcome -that of sex. I have two - both sex and race. I belong to the only group in the country which has two such huge obstacles to surmount." Like her parents, Mary believed in quality education for Black children. In 1887 after receiving her bachelors and masters deoree before the age of twenty-five Mary moved to Washington.
February 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Celebrate the 5th Anniversary of Virginia’s ratification and our 28A with the hygge of a cozy fireplace and a great book!

Some of these are FREE - (except S&H) -check it out!

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A splash of three available books on the 28th Amendment and getting it passed. "The Hungry Heart: A Woman's Fast for Justice" by Zoe Anne Nicholson, "Our United States Constitution", and "Ordinary Equality: The Fearless Women and Queer People who Shaped the U.S. Constitution and the Equal Rights Amendment" by Kate Kelly, art by Nicole LaRue
January 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Thank you @onlinewithzoe.bsky.social for sharing your ERA diary with everyone!
FREE BOOK DOWNLOAD Wild West Women, Inc. is proud to sponsor the free distribution of The Hungry Heart, A Woman's Fast for Justice. This is Zoe Nicholson's original diary, May 14 - June 24, 1982. Introduction by Mary Lee Sargent, Epilogue by Sonia Johnson. To Miss Alice Paul and her legions of women, bound and determined to ensure full constitutional equality. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on acount of sex. THE HUNGRY HEART A WOMAN'S FAST FOR JUSTICE Zoe Ann Nicholson Find Link on: WildWestWomen.org ZoeNicholson.com LuneSoleilPress.com
January 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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On Friday, January 17, 2025, President Biden announced what VoteEquality has asserted since the day Virginia ratified in 2020 when our team was still called VAratifyERA:

The Equal Rights Amendment IS our 28th Amendment. All Article V requirements in the U.S. Constitution have been met.
President Biden declares The Equal Rights Amendment is Now the Law of the Land Guarantees All Americans Equal Rights and Protections Under the Law Regardless of Their Sex
January 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Yes! We did it! The Equal Rights Amendment is now the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution — and is the law of the land.

ACTION: Spread the word! Tell your friends. Share this post with the tag #ERAis28A.

For talking points go to:
voteequality.us/talking-pts/
January 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Overjoyed to share this statement from the Alice Paul Center for Gender Justice from Friday, January 17, 2025. #ERAis28
Statement from Alice Paul Center for Gender Justice from Friday, January 17, 2025. 'This morning President Joe Biden affirmed what we've known since 2020: The Equal Rights Amendment is the 28th amendment in the US Constitution. 102 years since the ERA was first introduced to congress, Alice Paul's dream of constitutional gender equality will become a reality. Let us celebrate this monumental achievement accomplished by generations and generations of feminists who believed in the pursuit of justice and liberty, let us toast to those who dedicated their lives to equality but did not see its final passage, and let us remember the fierce words of National Woman's Party member Crystal Eastman following the passage of the 19th amendment; "now we can begin!"'
January 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM