Happy Friday! Welcome to our Media Round Up. Each week we’re collecting and sharing our favorite gender + politics stories. Here’s what caught our eye this week:   Roe’s reversal has put Brown v. Board in focus. Women played key roles in that case, too. Nadra Nittle, The 19th* In post-Roe v. Wade America, …

  Happy Self-Care Day! Have you ever wondered what trailblazing women in politics do for self-care? Check out five of them below.   Attorney General Maura Healey Maura Healey is the current Attorney General of Massachusetts, first assuming office in 2015. Attorney General Healey is the first openly gay state attorney general in the United …

  Happy Friday! Welcome to our Media Round Up. Each week we’re collecting and sharing our favorite gender + politics stories. Here’s what caught our eye this week:   Historic number of LGBTQ candidates are running for office this year, LGBTQ Victory Fund says Rachel Janfaza and Devan Cole, CNN According to data from the LGBTQ Victory …

  Happy Friday! Welcome to our Media Round Up. Each week we’re collecting and sharing our favorite gender + politics stories. Here’s what caught our eye this week:   Is the word ‘women’ being erased from the abortion rights movement? Matt Lavietes, NBC News The overturning of Roe v. Wade has sparked much debate over …

  We have less than four months to go until the general midterm election (!), and we are halfway through 2022. Time flies! Our team at BLFF is taking stock of where things stand for women candidates and incumbents. The last comparable midterm year, 2018, was the “Year of Women”—particularly in Congress and governor’s offices. …

  Happy Friday! Welcome to our Media Round Up. Each week we’re collecting and sharing our favorite gender + politics stories. Here’s what caught our eye this week:   Some activists lean on ‘motherhood’ for authority in gun law debates Kaylin Bourdon, Washington Post As a result of the tragic elementary school shooting in Uvalde, …

  Last month, Americans celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. This landmark legislation prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex in education as well as in activities that receive federal funds, but is Title IX antiquated? If not, what’s next? The short answer to the former (and, perhaps, …

  Happy Friday! Welcome to our Media Round Up. Each week we’re collecting and sharing our favorite gender + politics stories. Here’s what caught our eye this week:   Ketanji Brown Jackson to be sworn in as first Black woman on the Supreme Court Ximena Bustillo, NPR At noon yesterday Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was …