SLW Strategies
I know what it is like to live at a time when our leaders haven’t looked like me. They haven’t shared in my experiences. They haven’t known my fight. But I also know this is changing … faster than ever. As a young Black girl growing up in Nevada, one who preferred to watch C-SPAN […]
Upcoming organizing calls for #HarrisForPresident: Sunday: 7/28 Latinas for Harris https://tinyurl.com/2s2mnx3a Native Women + Two Spirit for Harris! https://tinyurl.com/3sr9vjfj Win With Black Men https://www.winwithblackmen.org/july2024conversation Win With Black Women https://bit.ly/WWBWonevoiceonefight Monday: 7/29 Women for Harris https://events.democrats.org/event/653900/ White Dudes for Harris https://tinyurl.com/48tpf67z Tuesday: 7/30 Caribbean-Americans for http://bit.ly/CAHarrisCall Filipino Americans for […]
OPINION PIECE: America needs direct democracy more than ever — protect the ballot now By Chris Melody Fields Figueredo top of page bottom of page
Guest Post: On the Anniversary of the Dobbs Decision, Black Women Still Remember! By Krystal Leaphart top of page bottom of page
On Thursday, May 2, you are invited to join The BGG and participate in the first-ever Women Talk Politics Day on Instagram—#womentalkpolitics. Why May 2? We are taking the horrors of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision that took away reproductive freedom for millions of Americans, leaked on this day in 2022, and turning it into a […]
The poll serves as an early snapshot heading into the 2024 elections. Black women are a powerful force in the American political system, and their political power continues to grow and garner recognition for the force it is. The findings show that Black women have top concerns about a broad range of issues, but the […]
51 years ago, on January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in Roe v. Wade, protecting a woman’s constitutional right to choose. ○ The case reaffirmed basic principles of equality, reinforced the fundamental right to privacy, and enabled women in this country to make deeply personal decisions free from political interference A […]
You can find the piece here. A’Shanti Gholar hosts this practical guide to progressive activism, a “one-stop shop for women of color who want to hear and talk about the world of politics”. As someone in the business of training Democratic women to run for office, there’s few better-placed voices than Gholar to help you […]
Read more from CAWP here. Women continued to vote at higher rates than men in the 2022 midterm elections, as they have done for more than four decades. However, understanding why women turn out at higher rates than their male counterparts – across age and racial/ethnic groups – is at least partly context-dependent and specific […]
Read more from CAWP here. New research funded by the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University, explores the dynamics of race, ethnicity, and gender on political perceptions in the United States. Two research briefs from scholars supported by our CAWP Research Grants examine […]