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Invisible Nation: Why Authoritarians Fear & Target Women and Democracy
In this vHopeful Conversation for International Women’s Day, Vanessa Hope speaks with authors Anna Malaika Tubbs (The Three Mothers, Erased) and Soraya Chemaly (Rage Becomes Her, The Resilience Myth, All We Want Is Everything) about why authoritarians fear and target women and democracy, and how American patriarchy is rooted in the country’s founding. They trace how Black women and mothers have long been cast as “foils” to the system even as they drive the deepest democratic change, unpack the intimate link between unequal family dynamics and strongman politics, and connect petromasculinity…
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