Hi,

First, THANK YOU for signing our student initiated, online, ERA Now! petition. https://www.change.org/p/u-s-senate-ratify-the-equal-rights-amendment          We invite you to share our petition with others.

The photo shows teens (The Yellow Roses) supporting Fredie Kay and the Suffrage100MA campaign. It is essential for girls today to know a ton about whose shoulders they now stand. Girls today stand on the shoulders of giants such as the suffragists and other feminists. This photo was taken in the lobby of a theater performance of "We Did it For You."  The 100th anniversary of women winning the vote is coming up in 2020.   http://suffrage100ma.org

Secondly, THANK YOU to the creators, cast and backstage crew of the excellent women's history play "We Did It For You."  The play reveals the stories, sacrifices, struggles and successes of the many, many activist feminists who came before us  https://www.wediditforyou.org    such as Alice Paul, Gloria Steinem, Lucy Stone, Sojourner Truth, Fannie Lou Hamer, Billy Jean King and many other American sheroes.  

Alice Paul, for example, wrote and launched in 1923 the national campaign to add women's rights (ERA) to the U.S. Constitution.

The ERA is unfinished business. Women in the U.S. still are not recognized as equals in the Constitution. That causes some people to treat women as second class objects. It's time to change that. It's time to pass and ratify the ERA. 

What happens when teens research the feminists on whose shoulders they now stand?

Art becomes reality. The Yellow Roses actually had a 45 minute phone conversation with the real Gloria Steinem during their research into the Equal Rights Amendment. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/gloria-steinem-yellow-roses 

For the past 3 years, "The Yellow Roses for the ERA" have been lobbying online for passage and ratification of the ERA.  More and more we see girls taking the lead to bring together the past, present and future of women's rights in the U.S.     Have you seen this play? We recommend it highly.

Brava.  

The Yellow Roses   http://theyellowrosesera.org

Massachusetts