100 Years, 100 Women, 2020

100 Years, 100 Women, 2020
Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
Curated by Dr. Deborah Willis

This year we celebrate the 100th  anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment that guaranteed all American women the right to vote.  In 1920, this did not give all women the right to vote, as Asian American women could not vote until 1952, Native American women could not vote in all 50 states till 1957, and a majority of Black women could not vote till 1965. We vote to create change and see our communities and values reflected in our elected officials. Americans are being confronted with their icons, their fetishes, their appropriations and the erasure of HERstory.  Voter suppression through barriers of registration, id requirements, lack of early voting, laws, intimidation and systemic racism are keeping people from exercising their right to vote.  These hits keep coming but this work to guarantee the right to vote is multigenerational, multicultural, and intersectional and absolutely necessary to dismantle power structures and build an equitable and inclusive United States.



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