A YOUTH-LED MOVEMENT TO RATIFY THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT
MASSACHUSETTS BRANCH
What We Do
EDUCATE
Educating young people about the Equal Rights Amendment and our nation's past and present gender inequality.
ADVOCATE
Advocating for the ratification of the ERA and gender equality legislation through legislative and judicial direct action.
ELECT
Inspiring youth to vote and fight for pro ERA, and gender sense legislation and candidates
EMPOWER
Empowering youth, women identifying, non binary, gender non conforming and femme people of all sorts!
CHECK OUT OUR BOOK LIST!
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Feminism is for Everybody by Bell Hooks
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This is a short book about the ideas of the feminist movement and why incorporting these ideals would benefit everyone in society.
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Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
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This is a collection of essays and speeches that show why women, people of color, and young people are so upset with the current state of our world.
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Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. Davis
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This book documents the experiences of different people across varying demographics, and explains the nature of intersectionality.
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This Bridge Called My Back by Various Writers
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A collection of essays, stories, poetry, and artwork by women of color, this book examines the new wave of feminism that began in the late 20th century.
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Men Explain Things To Me by Rebecca Solnit
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This is a collection of experiences and essays that explains the complicated gender war that seems to occur all the time in our nation and across the world, and the tendencies of men to assume they know things that they don’t and that women don’t know things they do.
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We the Women By Julie Suk
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This book is written by legal author and ERA advocate Julie Suk. It explores the ERA's past and explains its significance in the future. This book also pays tribute to the late justice Ruth Bater Ginsburg,
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Knock Down the House
Knock Down the House is about four strong women who ran for candidacy in the United States House of Representatives in 2018 and won.
*it can be streamed on Netflix*
Surge
Surge is a documentary about the huge number of women that ran and changed history in the 2018 midterm elections.
*it can be streamed on Amazon or SHOWTIME ANYTIME*
Mrs America
Mrs America is a TV mini series depicting the movement to ratify the ERA in the 70s. It follows Gloria Steinem and the leader of the anti-ERA movement Phyllis Schlafly.
*it can be streamed on Hulu or Amazon prime*