Last week, Facebook announced the launch of its Voting Information Center, with the goal of “[helping] every eligible voter in the U.S. who uses our platform vote this year.” The launch of the Voting Information Center comes following years of widespread criticism against the site.
Tag: 2016 Election
Hillary Was Right: Real Talk About the Deplorables
Unless we reckon with the depth and staying power of white supremacy and toxic masculinity, we will never be able to do anything more than defend what little inclusion and democracy we have. That begins with acknowledging it.
Views from the Frontlines of a Historic Candidacy and a Feminist Uprising
After the 2016 election, I wanted to put down my camera and cry forever—but if Hillary was not going to give up, how could I? Our second chapter was just beginning, and I wanted to be there to document it.
How Can Love Trump Hate? Ask bell hooks.
bell hooks’ “All About Love” speaks to the erosion of the promise of American ideals—already apparent nearly two decades ago—and how a politics of love might reverse it.
Gender Played a Starring Role in the 2016 Election
Just as it would be inaccurate to claim gender as the sole factor in shaping the 2016 election, it would be similarly irresponsible to ignore its role in the presidential race and its interaction with other key dynamics of the campaign.
Liberating Words: “A Conversation in America in Early November”
And besides, we don’t need a woman in the White House right now.
You can take me off your call list.
I hang up on an America I don’t recognize
In Defense of Identity Politics
After all these years, universality and the common good are still the (unmarked) province of straight white men.
Revisiting “What Women Really Want” in Politics
In 2005, Democratic pollster Celinda Lake and Kellyanne Conway examined the lives and opinions of women voters for their book, “What Women Really Want.”
We Don’t Need Another Diva
Clinton’s loss should not have surprised me: the most visible women in our culture, equally adored and reviled, divas are meant to fail. Or so the story goes.
The Media’s Woman Problem In A Trump Age
It’s heartening that liberal publications around the country are now an emboldened vanguard against Donald Trump’s misogyny. But the sexism and inequality that allow misogyny to thrive run deep in these same news outlets.