In the Running: Christine Hallquist
**Name:** Christine Hallquist **Age:** 62 **The Race:** Governor of Vermont **Making History:** If I win, I’ll be the first transgender governor in the nation. **The Challenge:** When I got in the...
View ArticleIn the Running: Dana Balter
**Name:** Dana Balter **Age:** 42 **The Race:** New York’s 24th Congressional District **Making History:** If I win, I’ll be the first Democrat woman to represent this district. **The Challenge:** One...
View ArticleDrowning in My Own Estrogen
I had a breast reduction when I was sixteen. It was definitely the move. I’m only five foot two and not all that big in circumference, and I was just a friggin’ kid when my boobs decided to become...
View ArticleSay No to Say Yes
Sometimes I wonder what it means to be an empowered autistic woman. Not a “genius,” not “disabled,” just empowered. Fulfilled. Happy, even. There are so few examples of what this looks like in the...
View ArticleFinding My Grandmother, One Psychic at a Time
I’m in Sedona, Arizona, where today’s psychic gazes at some point across my right shoulder, la-la-la-ing to herself. She is a young woman with long hair, in a loose cotton dress. The other psychics...
View ArticleIn the Running: Lupe Valdez
**Name:** Lupe Valdez **Age:** 71 **The Race:** Governor of Texas **Making History:** I would be the first lesbian and first Hispanic governor of Texas. **The Challenge:** I’m the eighth child of...
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“They Want to Silence Us”
“I was always hot and sweaty,” Valeria Fernanda said. The three-year-old squirmed in her chair, her ponytail bobbing, as she described the month-long trip that began in July 2018, when she and her...
View ArticleBirthing Justice
My favorite picture book when I was three years old was called *Where Did I Come From?* It was a big cardboard book, with the title question written in large, black letters across the front. Inside, a...
View ArticleBuilding a Lifeline
Last January, a year before the completion of his prison sentence, Sunny moved into a transitional center outside Atlanta. On the condition of good behavior, he’d be able to work outside the prison for...
View ArticleIn the Running: Lauren Underwood
**Name:** Lauren Underwood **Age:** 32 **The Race:** Illinois’ Fourteenth Congressional District **Making History:** I would be the first woman and the first person of color to represent my district,...
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