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A Past of Protest

Inspiration Point by Jane Yevgenia Muschentz (California, 45)

6/22/2024

 
In this version of history, Marge
never went to college / Marge went to college briefly / Marge went to
an all-girls college in the Roaring 1920’s /
in pre-revolution Iran / in 2022 Afghanistan / in 2005 Harvard,
when the school’s President attributed underrepresentation
of women in science to:
​“...different availability of aptitude at the high end... a level of commitment
that a much higher fraction of married men have been historically prepared to make
than of married women.” 1
​Controversy arose
when Marge wore pants / rode a bike / drove a car / played baseball / practiced medicine /
Marge was jailed / sent to an asylum for reading too much and managing
her own finances / Marge was rich and White /
Marge was poor and White / Marge was rich and Latina /

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