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Join the DWMC as we celebrate the Centennial of the 19th Amendment. From the Women’s Rights Convention in 1848 until the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920, women campaigned vigorously, courageously and with growing confidence for the right to vote against seemingly insurmountable odds. Women’s suffrage was always intertwined with struggles against racism, white supremacy, lynching, settler colonialism, and anti-immigrant insularity. The victory of 1920 resonates today as we struggled to expand voting rights for all citizens for the 2020 Presidential election and consequently faced the most egregious and outright voter suppression effort in modern history.
Bettina Aptheker is Distinguished Professor Emerita, Feminist Studies Department at UCSC where she taught for more than 40 years. She holds the Jack and Peggy Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies, and jointly held the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies.
As a scholar-activist Bettina is deeply committed to anti-racist work, speaking widely about the #MeToo movement, and supporting all efforts to protect and sustain immigrants, the undocumented, and the Dreamers.