Ordinary Equality

Ordinary Equality

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Ordinary Equality episodes

  • Forward Together, Backward Never

    Follow us on Twitter at @OrdEquality for everything you need to know about the ERA as we watch history in the making.  

    Special thanks to Equality Now, an international human rights organization that works to protect and promote the rights of women and girls around the world. To learn more about what you can do to support the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, check out www.equalitynow.org/era.

    To dive deeper into some of the topics discussed in this episode, check out:

    • With Virginia ratification, where does the Equal Rights Amendment go from here? (PBS * 2020)
    • Notes from a Member of Generation Ratify (American University JGSPL * Emilia Couture * 2019) 
    • Why We Need the Equal Rights Amendment Right the F*ck Now (Cosmopolitan * Alyssa Milano * 2019) 
    • “Why the United States Constitution Needs An Equal Rights Amendment” (Kate Kelly, Teen Vogue, 2018)

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    31 min
  • Bipartisan Bonanza

    Follow us on Twitter at @OrdEquality for everything you need to know about the ERA as we watch history in the making.  

    Special thanks to Equality Now, an international human rights organization that works to protect and promote the rights of women and girls around the world. To learn more about what you can do to support the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, check out www.equalitynow.org/era.

    To dive deeper into some of the topics discussed in this episode, check out:

    • “Illinois Approves Equal Rights Amendment, 36 Years After Deadline” (Rick Pearson, Bill Lukitsch * Chicago Tribune * 2018)
    • “Virginia Ratifies the Equal Right Amendment, Decades After The Deadline” (Bill Chapel * NPR * 2020)
    • “Danica Roem is Virginia’s First Transgender Elected Official. Here’s What She Wants to Accomplish” (Alana Abramson * Time * 2017) 
    • It’s Time to Finally Pass the Equal Rights Amendment (Ben Cardin, Lisa Murkowski * Washington Post * 2019) 

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    32 min
  • An Amendment Resurrected

    Follow us on Twitter at @OrdEquality for everything you need to know about the ERA as we watch history in the making. 

    Special thanks to Equality Now, an international human rights organization that works to protect and promote the rights of women and girls around the world. To learn more about what you can do to support the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, check out www.equalitynow.org/era.

    To dive deeper into some of the topics discussed in this episode, check out:

    • “Nevada Ratifies The Equal Rights Amendment ... 35 Years After The Deadline” (Colin Dwyer * NPR * 2017)
    • “Pat Spearman Testimony ERA” (C-SPAN * 2019) 
    • “The Equal Rights Amendment Can’t Be Defeated by Anti-Trans Scare Tactics” (Danica Roem and Kate Kelly * Teen Vogue * 2019) 
    • “I Don’t Have Equal Rights Under the Constitution -- Yet” (Alyssa Milano * CNN * 2018) 

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    35 min
  • The A+ Amendment

    Follow us on Twitter at @OrdEquality for everything you need to know about the ERA as we watch history in the making. 

    Special thanks to Equality Now, an international human rights organization that works to protect and promote the rights of women and girls around the world. To learn more about what you can do to support the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, check out www.equalitynow.org/era.

    To dive deeper into some of the topics discussed in this episode, check out:

    • “Could 1972 Equal Rights Amendment Have New Life?” (Gregory Watson * Texas Scorecard * 2019)
    • “The Strange Saga of the 27th Amendment” (Evan Andrews * History * 2017)
    • The ERA and the Three-State-Strategy (C-SPAN * 2018) 
    • “The Equal Rights Amendment: Why the Era Remains Legally Viable and Properly Before the States” (Held, Herndon, Stager * William & Mary Journal of Women & Law * 1997

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    27 min
  • U.S. vs. the World

    Follow us on Twitter at @OrdEquality for everything you need to know about the ERA as we watch history in the making. 

    Special thanks to Equality Now, an international human rights organization that works to protect and promote the rights of women and girls around the world. To learn more about what you can do to support the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, check out www.equalitynow.org/era.

    To dive deeper into some of the topics discussed in this episode, check out:

    • “An Equal Rights Amendment for the Twenty-First Century: Bringing Global Constitutionalism Home” (Julie Suk * Yale Journal of Law and Feminism * 2017)
    • Advancing Equality: How Constitutional Rights Can Make a Difference Worldwide (Jody Heymann, Amy Raub, Aleta Sprague * University of California Press * 2020)
    • Feminist Press
    • “Advancing Equal Rights in the World’s Constitutions”

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    37 min
  • Not on a Pedestal, but in a Cage

    Follow us on Twitter at @OrdEquality for everything you need to know about the ERA as we watch history in the making.

    Special thanks to Equality Now, an international human rights organization that works to protect and promote the rights of women and girls around the world. To learn more about what you can do to support the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, check out www.equalitynow.org/era.

    To dive deeper into some of the topics discussed in this episode, check out:

    • The Ginsburg Tapes (Lauren Moxley)
    • The Many Lives of Pauli Murray (Kathryn Schulz * New Yorker * 2017)
    • “Women Are Not Granted Equality Anywhere in the Constitution (Jennifer Carroll Foy * Marie Claire * 2020)
    • Equal Means Equal (Kamala Lopez * 2016)
    • Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court vs. The American People (Jamie B. Raskin * Routledge * 2003)

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    39 min
  • Update: The ERA Today

    Follow us on Twitter at @OrdEquality for everything you need to know about the ERA as we watch history in the making. 

    Special thanks to Equality Now, an international human rights organization that works to protect and promote the rights of women and girls around the world. To learn more about what you can do to support the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, check out www.equalitynow.org/era.

    To dive deeper into some of the topics discussed in this episode, check out:

    • 3 State Attorneys General Gue To Recognize ERA as 28th Amendment (Ryan Miller * USA Today * 2020)
    • “House Votes to Revive Equal Rights Amendment” (Danielle Kurtzleben * NPR * 2020)
    • “Virginia Approves the ERA., Becoming the 38th State to Back It”  (Timothy Williams * NYTimes * 2020)

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    23 min

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