Dawn Teele of the School of Arts and Sciences spoke about the suffrage movement and the problematic nature of framing the Nineteenth Amendment as an inevitable progression toward justice. Doing so, says Teele, feeds “into this idea that if only all of these excluded, downtrodden, marginalized groups could wait their turn or bide their time, then, miraculously, this change they’ve been waiting for will just appear.”

June 4, 2019 ・ From The Atlantic