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Routes of Resistance: Navigating the Frontlines of Abortion Access
The ERA Project, in partnership with Columbia Law School's Journal on Gender and the Law, will be hosting an essential virtual symposium examining abortion access in our post-Dobbs landscape. Join us as we explore strategies, solutions, and paths forward. Register here.
The Power of State Constitutional Rights Symposium
At Northwestern School of Law's two-day symposium, "The Power of State Constitutional Rights," ERA Director Ting Ting Cheng will speak about the power and potential of state ERAs on a panel moderated by Alicia Bannon, Director of the Judiciary Program at the Brennan Center for Justice. Register here.
"Ratified" Documentary Premiere
ERA Director Ting Ting Cheng served as a commentator for Ratified, a powerful new documentary which chronicles the history of the Equal Rights Amendment, with a particular focus on Virginia's final ratification. The film premieres on PBS Independent Lens on October 20. Stay tuned for additional screening events and please reach out if you’d like to organize screening events with us.
Model Policy Agenda Launch (Las Vegas, Nevada)
Please join the ERA Project and leaders in Nevada’s historic sex equality movement, Nevada NOW, Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN), and SEIU Local 1107, on Tuesday, September 17th, 2024, Constitution Day, in Las Vegas, Nevada for a report launch and a lineup of exciting speakers at Realizing Sex Equality: The Future of Nevada’s Equal Rights Amendment.
Conference: The Present and Future of the Equal Rights Amendment
Organized in collaboration with Georgetown University Law Center, this conference gathered distinguished legal scholars, members of Congress, lawyers, advocates, and organizers together at Georgetown Law to sharpen a vision and strategy for the future of the ERA.
Gender-Based Violence & the ERA: Sex Equality & U.S. v. Rahimi
Join the ERA Project for Gender-Based Violence and the Equal Rights Amendment: A Discussion About Sex Equality and United States v. Rahimi, in which legal experts will discuss what is at stake in this case and the potential of the ERA to reorient the legal system's responses to gender-based violence.
ERA Centennial Convention
The ERA Centennial Convention marked the 100th anniversary of the Equal Rights Amendment by celebrating the women and LGBTQ+ people who have fought for the ERA for decades and building a strong, intergenerational movement to get the ERA over the finish line.
The convention was held on July 21-22, 2023 in Seneca Falls, NY at the First Presbyterian Church of Seneca Falls where the National Woman’s Party first unveiled the ERA—at the same podium Alice Paul gave her speech 100 years ago. The event focused on cultivating the next generation of ERA activists and helping them see their place in history as constitution-makers.
The ERA Symposium: A New Guarantee of Sex Equality in the U.S. Constitution
The 2022 symposium on “The Equal Rights Amendment: A New Guarantee of Sex Equality in the U.S. Constitution” was held virtually on March 3rd and 4th, 2022.
Advance Film Screening: My Name Is Pauli Murray
On September 28, 2021, The Center for Gender and Sexuality Law's Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) Project hosted a free online screening of the documentary My Name Is Pauli Murray. The film looks at the life and ideas of Pauli Murray, a non-binary Black lawyer, activist, Episcopalian priest, and poet who influenced both Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Thurgood Marshall.
Equal Rights Amendment Talk with Professor Julie Suk
This event is part of the Front Lines of Gender Justice Speaker Series.
Join Professor Katherine Franke (James L. Dohr Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the ERA Project), in conversation with Professor Julie Suk (CUNY Graduate Center) on the importance and challenges of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). Julie C. Suk is a leading scholar of constitutional gender equality in the United States and around the world. Her recent book, We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment, charts the legal, historical, and political significance of the ERA's current resurgence, enabled by generations of women constitution-makers.