Dispatch: WFFWi monthly meeting
7 PM tomorrow (Monday) -- a very timely meeting
Monthly Meeting with Professor Julia Azari
7 PM Monday, May 11 (virtual). Register at https://bit.ly/WFFWiMonthly
When we invited Professor Julia Azari to speak at our monthly meeting, we had no idea it would be so timely. Her most recent book is Backlash Presidents: From Transformative to Reactionary Leaders in American History. From Andrew Johnson to Donald Trump, America has witnessed transformation, then backlash. With the U.S. Supreme Court gutting the Civil Rights Act last Tuesday, racial backlash and “colorblind” politics are front and center. If you have a chance before the meeting, read Professor Azari’s latest in Good Politics / Bad Politics:
We live in the here and now, and hearing about the past helps us deal with the present. Please take time to attend this important meeting. And, as always, if you cannot attend, if you are registered for the meeting you will get the recording and slide deck after the event. Register now at https://bit.ly/WFFWiMonthly.
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We add a thought for Mothers’ Day. In yesterday’s Substack post by Heather Cox Richardson, she tells the story of Julia Ward Howe founding Mothers’ Day. Richardson points out that Mothers’ Day (note plural possessive) “was not designed to encourage people to be nice to their mothers. It was part of women’s effort to gain power to change society.”
Today, and every day, Mothers, and people who have mothers (that’s everybody), must keep at it. Do what we can to change society.
Musical offering: Keep Marching, from the Broadway musical Suffs. The entire production premiered on PBS Great Performances on Friday, May 8. Since the beginning of time, progress has been possible, not guaranteed, so keep marching.
