Avengers of the Week | Telling It Like It Is
Hey! Did you catch the 8th annual The New Yorker Gender Tally? Writer, illustrator, and longtime GenderAvenger Jess Esch shares a comprehensive overview of gender representation across the magazine's contributors. The New Yorker Gender Tally is a labor of love, and Jess puts a lot of work into the findings each year.
Read her full blog post and then share Jess’s thread from this week.
Advocacy and Action We Loved This Week:
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Prominent Avengers We Honor This Week:
This week, the Supreme Court confirmation hearing was held for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman ever nominated to the Supreme Court. Read about the February 25th announcement and her life's work via the White House website.
Feminist icon Madeleine Albright, the first woman to ever serve as Secretary of State, died this week at 84. Read about her life and impact via TIME.
🔥 Yes! This week’s #GenderAvenger #AvengersOfTheWeek are telling it like it is. Thanks to Jess Esch, Sree Sreenivasan, Chloe Angyal, Dr. Hisham Zerriffi, and Carol Schwartz for keeping it 💯