Edition 116: The Equal Rights Amendment with Freda, Wendy Murphy & Margaret Moss

Happy Winter holidays to all of our listeners! We hope you are warm and cozy as you listen to this, our 116th handcrafted, collectively created podcast. In this month’s edition, Freda interviews Wendy Murphy, an experienced impact litigator working fiercely to gain equal protection for women under the law. Wendy has won numerous cases setting precedent and leading to changes in the law for women regarding sexual assault and protecting the constitutional and civil rights of victimized women and children. To listen to Wendy Murphy bring her case to court on December 16th at 2pm Eastern time you can use the following website. It is possible to register two days in advance. https://forms.mad.uscourts.gov/courtlist.html You can read Wendy’s Constitutional Terrorism article that details the Equal Rights Amendment, its herstory, and its importance in more detail than she had time to provide in her interview here: https://8fdaf192-a63f-4cc1-ba48-30c5727fb699.usrfiles.com/ugd/8fdaf1_b95d74efe47e437abcf29301af7a10b8.pdf And here is a link to Wendy Murphy’s book Oh No He Didn’t: Brilliant Women and the Men Who Took Credit for Their Work. Her book includes a discussion about women’s inequality and ties to the problem of men taking credit for women’s work: https://www.amazon.com/Didnt-Brilliant-Women-Credit-Their/dp/1947976478/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=7W5QB3UD3NSW&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.E2dmW1SmEINDuhKhtXPlPLZmNtT0WR6WnGCHuF4ZbtulZayM_NULVg_aD39TCnXEXwCILf_svyZ3MCbNtgyw9jeIEby5dUtQh8ra378hrnVn2Dg1JCB8Z2E_tJY0Q0fzrv-H97ahAYLOyqldRKD84wM52_YgBXTdw5tksAreiwRO9Epsg7uxHFMRuRJs7Zk5ZP2WfQwB2_FQy2St3ByK_A.uBD0ckSRUUzY_vegQwKtrJrseNHYSW_6AYsyEbNQMYU&dib_tag=se&keywords=oh+no+he+didnt&qid=1737175237&sprefix=oh+no+he+didnt%2Caps%2C83&sr=8-1#aw-udpv3-customer-reviews_feature_div Wendy Murphy works with the organization EQUAL MEANS EQUAL, a national non-profit organization dedicated to the immediate publication, adoption and enforcement of the original Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U.S. Constitution, which became enforceable federal law on January 27th of 2022. You can get involved here: https://equalmeansequal.org/ You can hear Wendy speak more here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6tnXAMpZsS8 Wendy referenced the feminist activism group FIST. Feminists in Struggle (“FIST”) is a national female-only radical feminist network, democratically run, and composed of individuals born female and affiliated female-only feminist organizations. You can find FIST here: https://feministstruggle.org/ Thanks for staying tuned to WLRN, your feminist-community powered radio station in the Femisphere!