#OnThisDay, 27 Mar 1997, Pamela Gordon becomes the first woman to be Premier of Bermuda, after winning a party leadership election. Her party, the United Bermuda Party, was centre-right.
These are the first eighteen women elected as MPs in Turkey #OnThisDay, 8 Feb 1935. It was the first time women in Turkey could vote in parliamentary elections.
#OnThisDay, 23 Jan 1977, Patricia R Harris takes up duty as Housing and Urban Development secretary in the US cabinet. She is the first African-American woman to hold a US cabinet post.
#OnThisDay, 21 Jan 1648, Margaret Brent demands the right to sit on the Maryland council in her duel roles as a land-owner and Lord Baltimore's attorney. She was denied her place, and left saying she "protested against all proceedings in this present assembly unless she may be present and have vote."
#OnThisDay, 9 Jan 1998, Dr Mo Mowlam, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, holds talks with loyalist prisoners in the Maze prison in an effort to continue the peace talks that lead to the Good Friday Agreement.
#OnThisDay, 1 Jan 2011, Dilma Rousseff becomes the first woman elected President of Brazil. In the 1970s she'd been a guerrilla and was captured, tortured and jailed by the then dictatorship.
“My promise is ... to honor women, to protect the most fragile, and to govern for all.”
Good morning. Seeing antisemitic and anti-2SLGBTQ comments on my article, someone reached out to ask, “I wonder if you will be yet another woman in politics forced to leave because of relentless threats to your personal safety and that of your loved ones?”
No, I will not be chased out.
I will advocate for the space to be safe for everyone.
"If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair."
#OnThisDay, 12 July 1972, Shirley Chisholm becomes the first Black US Presidential candidate, winning 152 votes in the first ballot at the Democratic National Convention.
Apparently Irish women in politics have no experience in campaigning or advocating for women in politics so the top job needs to go to a man….. hits head off wall
1/ Today the #2024Election kicks off in earnest with #JoeBiden’s re-election bid announcement
There is 560 days to the #PresidentialElection. Much will happen, conditions will change but it as #Biden suggests a continuation of the battle for the soul of America
I’ll use this thread to comment periodically on the election over the next 80 weeks. It’s a long road to #ElectionDay2024, but the stakes couldn’t be higher
One of America’s better columnists, #TomFriedman, with some thoughts on #KamalaHarris and how the VP needs to be a more visible presence in the #2024Election.