What’s Current: Harriet Tubman to replace Andrew Jackson on the American $20 bill

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Harriet Tubman to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill! (Hamilton will remain on the $10, and Abraham Lincoln on the $5, but images of women will be added to the back of both.)

…But why will it take the U.S. 20 years to get Tubman onto the $20?

Hillary Clinton wins New York Democratic primary, by a decisive double-digit margin, securing an almost certain victory over Bernie Sanders for the Presidential Nomination.

Sarah Ditum: “We have to teach girls about more than just consent – let’s teach them refusal.”

“Pornography is no longer restrained by paper, but replicates and spreads virus-like on mobile phones – and every child has a mobile phone. That means that every child has a camera, too, and can make themselves a direct participant in the economy of exposure that seems to make up the adult world. Selfies are rated. Nudes are coaxed, then distributed. Lives are trashed.”

“Sexual violence at [UK] schools is endemic. The government can’t ignore it any longer.”

Susan Cox

Susan Cox is a feminist writer and academic living in the United States. She teaches in Philosophy.