Girl Power Fuels Equal Means Equal Campaign

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, again. And recruit a few of your influential friends to help out. Equal Means Equal, a campaign supporting efforts to pass the Equal Rights Amendment, kicked off Tuesday night with a cocktail party at the Paradise Club at the Edition Times Square. Event hosts Natalie White, Lizzy Jagger, Georgia May Jagger, Jerry Hall, Paris Hilton, Theodora Richards and more showed up to help rally support. White, who crafted the large flag that served as a prime photo backdrop, began working on the Equal Rights Amendment in 2015 while doing a performance piece about the lack of movement in the women’s movement. “While I was doing that performance art piece, someone told me women didn’t have equal rights in the United States Constitution, so that made me extremely angry and I decided to do something about it,” she said. “We started going into the states to lobby for ratification.” To successfully pass, a state’s house and senate both have to vote “yes” on the amendment in the same year. Before White began working on the cause, no state had voted on the amendment in the last 40 years; after rallying successful ratification votes in Nevada and Illinois,

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