Feel the hope that we've been waiting for
So, how was your weekend? Good here, walked around the neighborhood, got down to the White House. Played Brand New Day from The Wiz on repeat, heard Celebration more than I have in a while. Sang, danced, gleefully embarrassed my children by going full Woo Girl. I slept better than I have in a while.
Today is National Scrapple Day, appropriately enough.
The Lily | Joe Biden is the first president-elect to mention the transgender community in a victory speech | Caroline Kitchener
President-elect Joe Biden began his victory speech Saturday night by thanking “the broadest and most diverse coalition in history.” “Democrats, Republicans, Independents,” Biden said, “young, old, urban, suburban, rural, gay, straight, transgender.”
The Advocate | Biden, Harris Speeches: Shout-Outs to LGBTQ+ Folks and History Made | Trudy Ring
LGBTQ Nation | Joe Biden will be the first president to enter the White House supporting marriage equality | Alex Bollinger
LGBTQ Nation | President-elect Biden thanks his “gay, straight, transgender” supporters in historic victory moment | Juwan Holmes
Out Magazine | Joe Biden Includes LGBTQ+ Community in First Speech as President-Elect | Mikelle Street
Reuters | Biden win seen as green light for women's reproductive rights | Ellen Wulfhorst
Democrat Joe Biden as U.S. president will bring sweeping changes to women’s reproductive rights globally, starting with overturning a U.S. policy banning government-funded aid groups from mentioning abortion, according to campaign groups.
Red Magazine | What Joe Biden's win really means for women | Johanna Derry
Washington Post | Biden plans immediate flurry of executive orders to reverse Trump policies | Matt Viser Seung Min Kim, Annie Linskey
Vox | Biden plans on swiftly rolling back Trump policies with a set of executive orders | Katelyn Burns
Washington Post | America has elected a vice president. For the first time, she is not a man. | Chelsea Janes
Harris’s victory comes 55 years after the Voting Rights Act abolished laws that disenfranchised Black Americans, 36 years after the first woman ran on a presidential ticket and four years after Democrats were devastated by the defeat of Hillary Clinton, the only woman to win the presidential nomination of a major party.
The Advocate | What 'Vice President Kamala Harris' Means to Marginalized People | Tracy E. Gilchrist
The Cut | Kamala Harris Will Become the First Female Vice President | Amanda Arnold
Daily Beast | Kamala Harris Wins, Busting Barrier After Barrier | Emily Shugerman
Essence | Kamala Harris: I'm Grateful That Black Women Have Had My Back | Kirsten West Savali
HuffPost | Kamala Harris Elected As First Black, Asian American Vice President | Taryn Finley
LGBTQ Nation | Kamala Harris is now the Vice President-elect. She will set so many firsts in Washington. | Juwan Holmes
Los Angeles Times | Kamala Harris makes history many times over as vice president-elect | Melanie Mason
MadameNoire.com | On The Shoulders Of Shirley Chisholm, Kamala Harris Is The First Black Woman To Be Elected Vice President Of The United States | Charise
Mother Jones | Kamala Harris will make history and be the first Black woman vice president | Jamilah King
New York Times Kamala Harris Makes History as First Woman and Woman of Color as Vice President | Lisa Lerer, Sydney Ember
The 19th | Kamala Harris, America’s first female vice president-elect, makes history | Errin Haines
POLITICO Magazine | ‘Harris Has the Potential To Change the Face of U.S. Politics’
Refinery29 | Kamala Harris Makes History As First Woman & POC VP | Natalie Gontcharova
Vox | Kamala Harris is elected the first woman vice president | Li Zhou
AP | Stacey Abrams credited for boosting Democrats in Georgia | Bill Barrow, Kat Stafford
Stacey Abrams spent years working to convince political power players that Georgia is a genuine two-party battleground, a Deep South state where the left could compete if it organized Black voters, other sporadic voters and stopped apologizing for being Democrats. She was right.
BET | How Stacey Abrams Helped Biden-Harris Take Down Trump | Madison Gray
POLITICO | How Stacey Abrams and her band of believers turned Georgia blue | Maya King
Washington Post | There’s a long history behind Stacey Abrams | Henry Farrell
Refinery29 | We Have To Thank Stacey Abrams For Biden’s Win In Georgia
Who Voted
Newsweek | Catholics Helped Elect Joe Biden as More Voters Shrugged Off Abortion Issues, Hostile Clergy | Jocelyn Grzeszczak
Out Magazine | How LGBTQ+ Officials, Activists Helped Turn Pennsylvania Blue | David Artavia
RawStory | Meghan McCain Nation: Anyone baffled at how Trump’s margin among white women went up hasn’t been watching ‘The View’ | Melanie McFarland
Abortion
SCOTUSblog | Petitions of the week: Three cases testing the legality of a federal ban on abortion referrals | Andrew Hamm
The American Independent | How the new Supreme Court could make abortion more dangerous | Lisa Needham
Rewire News Group | No, Abortion Is Not a ‘Wrongful Death’ | Caroline Reilly
LGBTQ
The 19th | Equality Act hangs in the balance as Democrats falter in Senate races | Kate Sosin
Religion News Service | Study finds that queer Christians quit the church twice as much as others | Kathryn Post
Pregnancy & Parenting
Business Insider | Millions of American workers have children. Thanks to the pandemic, we can now stop pretending we don't. | Melissa Petro
Melissa Petro is a freelance writer based in New York where she lives with her husband and two small children. Before the pandemic, she says she often played the role of the "secret parent," struggling to juggle work and family while sensing pressure from her employers to minimize her time spent parenting. Now as more parents combine childcare with working from home, Petro says the labor of parenthood is no longer invisible or taken for granted.
Business Insider | Working parents are reaching their 'breaking point' due to the pandemic, and they say national paid parental leave can't come soon enough | Caroline Hroncich
The pandemic has shown that parents are in need of paid leave more than just after the birth of a child.
Chico Enterprise-Record | Pandemic may have hurt young workers, single parents, says economist | Laura Urseny
Keene Sentinel | Pandemic Parenting: How New Hampshire arrived at a child care crisis | Jack Rooney
Scary Mommy | The Pandemic Is Impacting Trans & Non-Binary Parents Too, So Include Us In The Conversations | Amber Leventry
When it comes to talking about how navigating the pandemic, resources and privilege vary, but the story always stays grounded in the assumption that all parents come with binary, heterosexual and cisgender identities.
Reproductive Health & Justice
MarketWatch | This is what it could cost you if Obamacare is thrown out | Liz Weston
If the Supreme Court throws out the ACA, your finances and your future could pay the price. Retiring early or starting a business might become too hazardous if your access to health insurance isn’t guaranteed. You might have to wait a year before pre-existing conditions are covered by an employer’s plan. Young adults could be kicked off their parents’ policies.
CNN | Ending Obamacare would be a big tax cut for the rich | Tami Luhby
UPI | Reduced costs for contraception under ACA has led to decline in birth rates | Brian P. Dunleavy
The elimination of out-of-pocket costs for contraception under the ACA resulted in an increase in birth control use and a corresponding decline in birth rates of up to 20%, according to an analysis published Friday by JAMA Network Open. This is particularly true among women in low-income households.
Work & Money
Illinois
Northern Public Radio | Senate Committees Discuss Inequity in Education, Employment | Sarah Mansur
State education officials and youth employment advocates are proposing expanding job skills programs in areas with large minority student populations and high unemployment, while also removing barriers to employment that disproportionately affect minorities.