The gender divide in politics is massive, with women shifting leftward and men making up the large base of support for Donald Trump and his allies. And this isn’t just true in the US – around the world, ascendant far-right and fascist movements are driven overwhelmingly by men. The right has obsessed over trans rights, abortion, and library books about queer lives in a manner perplexing to many progressives.
How do we understand this divide’s shaping of the 2024 election, and where is the gender split headed? Will it grow, or will far-right female figureheads like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Marine Le Pen win more white women to their cause? What can we learn from the political battles playing out everywhere else the right is ascendant – from India to England to Kenya? Lux writers address these questions in our new issue and from the stage.
WHEN: Monday, November 11th, 6:30pm
WHERE: McNally Jackson Seaport, 4 Fulton St., New York City
Speakers:
Emily Janakiram is a writer and is active in the intersectional and feminist collective New York City for Abortion Rights.
Natasha Lennard is a columnist for The Intercept, associate director of the Creative Publishing & Critical Journalism program at the New School, and author of Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life.
Sarah Thankam Mathews is the author of All This Could Be Different, which was shortlisted for the 2022 National Book Award in Fiction. It was also a New York Times Editor’s Choice and named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Vogue, Vulture, the Los Angeles Times, TIME, Slate, and Buzzfeed. Mathews grew up between Oman and India, immigrating to the United States at seventeen.
Sarah Leonard is editor-in-chief of Lux magazine. She is a contributing editor to Dissent and The Nation.
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This event is co-presented with Lux Magazine and the McNally Jackson Books
