Intersectionality. If you’ve found yourself in social justice circles or even in certain Twitter feeds, you’ve seen this word tossed around and used in different ways. Social justice has shifted its focus away from the consciousness-raising groups and community support of the 1960s and moved toward a focus on individuality and self care.
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Powerful feminists of all ages, including celebrities like Lily Tomlin, Judy Chicago, Jane Fonda, author and professor Phyllis Chesler, and so many others. In the recent Netflix documentary, these women share what it’s been like fighting for equality in the 1940s, the 1960s, and still today.
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I laughed. I cried. I ate popcorn. That’s how we’re supposed to review movies right? I don’t know. I’ve never done one of these things so bear with me as I muddle through. Amazon Studios gifted MPLS MadWomen some tickets to an early screening of Mindy Kaling’s latest project, Late Night.
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What if you knew what your co-worker’s salary was?
More importantly, what if they were making $10,000 more, and you had both been at the same company and on the same team, and had very similar job titles? To top it off, your workloads were nearly the same for an entire year.
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Because I love a good theme day/week/month, I kicked off Women’s History Month with a lecture at the Hennepin History Museum. Professor Bill Green (maybe I also love nepotism) explored the life of Nellie Francis, an African American suffragist from Minnesota who fought for the rights of many marginalized communities.
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On February 21, MPLS MadWomen hosted a screening of the critically acclaimed film Time for Ilhan at the St. Anthony Main Theatre. On the snowy Thursday night, the audience filled the theater to near capacity eager to watch the film and to ask questions and listen as director, Norah Shapiro, spoke about her experience in making it.
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If, like me, you’re neither a voracious non-fiction reader nor television writer, you’ll still feel right at home opening up to Nell Scovell’s autobiography, Just the Funny Parts … and a Few Hard Truths About Sneaking Into the Hollywood Boys’ Club.
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Thanks to a staggering voter turnout and a record-breaking number of women on the ballot, the United States political scene is a boys’ club no more. Notable wins include Ayanna Pressley, the first black congresswoman elected from Massachusetts; Marsha Blackburn, the first woman senator from Tennessee; Sylvia Garcia and Veronica Escobar, the first Latinx congresswomen elected from Texas; Rashida Tlaib, the first Muslim woman elected to Congress; and Sharice Davids and Deb Haaland, the first Native American women elected to Congress.
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“Sorry, just, I feel, should, maybe…” The list of words women have been instructed to remove from their vocabulary grows by the day. There are even tools to help us keep track of all the things we shouldn’t be saying in our professional exchanges. All these little words are essentially apologies we make for being women in the workforce.
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