While most of us are staring at Twitter today, would be an opportune time to:
2020
Hopescrolling
The 19th | 19 to Watch: Key races, issues at stake for women voters in 2020 | Alexis Lanza
The Advocate | 16 LGBTQ+ Candidates to Watch on Election Night | Neal Broverman, Daniel Reynolds
The Advocate | Montana Could Elect Its First Out Statewide Official Tuesday | Trudy Ring
Daily Kos | Openly transgender and genderqueer candidates might make history this Election Day | Marissa Higgins
TMFRH
The American Independent | Trump campaign says he can't be anti-LGBTQ because he once had a gay friend | Casey Quinlan
Newsweek | Trump's Evangelical Allies on Defensive After Pastor Suggests President's Arrogance is Deadlier Than Abortion | Christina Zhao
Kamala
Essence | Kamala Harris: I'm Grateful That Black Women Have Had My Back | Sen. Kamala Harris
Jezebel | What a Kamala Harris Vice Presidency Would Mean for Black and Brown Women | Prachi Gupta
…and friends
Marie Claire | The Child Care Crisis Will Worsen If We Reelect Donald Trump | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Refinery29 | "Vote Like Your Life Depends On It": Elizabeth Warren On Protecting Roe, Expanding The Court & Losing Her Brother To COVID | Natalie Gontcharova
Vox | Stacey Abrams on minority rule, voting rights, and the future of democracy | Ezra Klein
GOTV+
LGBTQ Nation | Exclusive: Pete Buttigieg tells LGBTQ voters that “Help is on the way” | Juwan Holmes, John Gallagher
LGBTQ Nation | LGBTQ leaders in battleground states plead with voters because local elections make a big difference | Molly Sprayregen
Prism | LGBTQ Latino voters ‘show up and show out’ for 2020 election | Tina Vasquez
Cosmopolitan | "We Need Better Options": 4 Women with Disabilities Reveal How the Voting System Leaves Them Behind | Sara Li
HuffPost | Women Have Spent Trump's Time In Office Building Political Power | Emma Gray
Slate | Women's declining support for Trump. | Lili Loofbourow
New York Magazine | Will the GOP Become the Party of Men? | Zak Cheney-Rice
Slate | Bad News for Trump: Karens Are Voting Biden | Willa Paskin
Smithsonian Magazine | In Puerto Rico, Women Won the Vote in a Bittersweet Game of Colonial Politics | Rosa Cartagena
Jezebel | Into the Woods: How Some Women Are Surviving Election Day | Marie Solis
Why didn’t I do this?? Seriously, though. The kids almost no live instruction this week, I could be looking out the window at a stand of trees right. now.
State ballots
CNN | Abortion, marijuana, Puerto Rico statehood: Voters consider a wide range of issues in ballot questions | Veronica Stracqualursi
CBS News | Abortion on the ballot in Colorado and Louisiana | Kate Smith
NBC News | Abortion restrictions are on the ballot in Colorado and Louisiana | Chloe Atkins
Washington Post | Abortion ballot measures in Louisiana and Colorado offer glimpse into post-Roe nation | Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Samantha Schmidt
Mother Jones | Colorado Voters Are Considering an Anti-Abortion Ballot Measure. It’s Part of a Broader Disinformation Scheme. | Becca Andrews
Business Insider | Results of Colorado Proposition 115 to ban abortions at 22 weeks of pregnancy | Grace Panetta, Canela López
American Independent | Louisiana sneaks a scheme to ban all abortions onto the ballot | Lisa Needham
Stat | Doctors in Congress, new e-cigarette taxes, stem cells, and abortion rights: Here’s what STAT is watching tonight | Lev Facher, Nicholas Florko, Andrew Joseph, Kate Sheridan
Abortion
Los Angeles Times | At a top hospital, Catholic restrictions on women's healthcare are growing worse | Michael Hiltzik
Ms. | Mike Pompeo is Wrong: There *Is* an International Right to Abortion | Merrite Johnson
POPSUGAR | I Don't Want Anyone to Have to Choose an Abortion, So I Voted For Joe Biden
Jezebel | Just What We Need: SCOTUS May Take Up a Direct Challenge to Roe v. Wade in the Coming Days | Marie Solis
Need a break from being anxious about the election? Here’s something else to be anxious about: As soon as Friday, the Supreme Court could decide to take up a Mississippi abortion case that puts Roe v. Wade right in its crosshairs. The law seeks to ban abortion at 15 weeks in direct defiance of the 1973 landmark decision, which says that states can’t ban abortion before fetal viability.
NPR | Supreme Court's Abortion Cases Could Threaten Birth Control, Too | Julie Rovner
LGBTQ
Rewire News Group | This ‘Religious Liberty’ Case Could Take Away Your Right to Adopt | Lisa Needham
Oral arguments begin Wednesday in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, a case that could radically alter the landscape of LGBTQ rights.
CNBC | Supreme Court, with Justice Barrett, to hear major LGBT rights case day after election | Tucker Higgins
RawStory | SCOTUS to hear major LGBTQ case, with Barrett - designed to give Christians special rights to discriminate | David Badash
The 74 | Church, State and Choice: Wednesday Supreme Court Hearing Could Affect Debate on Public Funding of Religious Schools and Inclusion of Gay Students | Linda Jacobson
Metro Weekly | 7 in 10 Americans oppose allowing foster care agencies to discriminate against same-sex couples | John Riley
LGBTQ Nation | Even if Joe Biden wins, the Supreme Court will still wreak havoc on our rights | Jamie Manson
It is impossible to overstate how much is at stake this Election Day. But even if the outcomes meet our deepest hopes, the fight for equal protection under the law, particularly for women, LGBTQ people, people of color, will be far from over.
Out Magazine | Almost Half of Queer Republicans Wish They Were Straight | Donald Padgett
A new study examining the differences in queer Republicans found that nearly half wished they were straight, and almost as many see being queer as a “personal shortcoming.”
Arkansas
Metro Weekly | Arkansas gay couple verbally attacked when applying for marriage license | John Riley
Georgia
Metro Weekly Georgia transgender sheriff's deputy can sue for health care denial, court says | John Riley
Michigan
The 19th | Gretchen Whitmer sued by LGBTQ+ groups over trans military ban | Kate Sosin
Pregnancy & Parenting
Jezebel | Pregnant Women Face a Higher Risk of Death from Covid | Marie Solis
Keep scrolling, Jenn, no clicking, keep scrolling.
Work & Money
Inc. | The Gender Pay Gap Won't Close Itself. Here's How to Get Started Fixing it at Your Company | Sonia Thompson
Law360 | Limiting The Pandemic's Strain On Workplace Gender Equality | Kelly Cardin, Jessica Schild
National Law Review | Why Employees at Religious Organizations May Not Be Protected Against Discrimination | Jolena Jeffrey
Patheos | Researchers Say Religion Makes the Gender Wage Gap Worse (by $1,734 Per Year) | Hemant Mehta
Philanthropy Women | Anybody Got a Spare $6.3 Billion to Fund Women and Girls? | Kiersten Marek
University Business Magazine | Here's a snapshot of the gender pay gap in higher ed | Matt Zalaznick
More, More, More
The Mary Sue | What Is Feminist Horror? | Princess Weekes
Los Angeles Review of Books | The Paesano of Shame: Trump’s Italian American Consiglieres | Christine Grimaldi
Whether you call them paesani, the plural in Italian, or paesans, the plural among Italian Americans, we must denounce Trump’s Italian American circle for all his emissaries represent: racism, for starters, and so much more