Jessica Valenti

                                                                6" x 9" watercolor on 140 lb.  Strathmore paper. 
 

"I just have to remind everyone, it is fine for race and gender and identity to play a role in your vote. It's fine. For so long, people have made it seem (white men have made it seem) as if that is a shallow factor to consider when electing a president. Political representation is a really big fucking deal. And what a massive trick they've played on voters to make people feel as if they need to be embarrassed to care about this for that to play a role. It's absurd. 

Do you think that all of these white male presidents who've been elected for hundreds of years were not elected because they were white men? Those were votes for race and gender. But, when you vote for a white man, that's seen as a politically neutral act. That is deliberate. That framework is deliberate. Don't let anyone make you feel embarrassed about caring about political representation." -Jessica Valenti

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