Every Monday leading up to the election, McNally Jackson Seaport is hosting journalists and writers to help break down the events of the week as it relates to their area of expertise, for our Engaged Electorate series. These clarifying conversations aim to cut through the waves of information on our newsfeeds, and bring discussion forums to our in-person communities. We will also be joined by different organizations each week, who will provide ways for you to get involved with local and national causes. 

For our final week, we welcome back Lux Magazine and panelists Sarah Thankam Mathews, Natasha Lennard, Sarah Leonard, and Emily Janakiram for an election recap, focusing on the roll of gender in the 2024 presidential election.

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.

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This event is co-presented with Lux Magazine and the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.

Lux is a feminist magazine of politics and culture founded in 2021. We publish a glossy print edition three times a year featuring our award-winning writers, and a regular newsletter. We are interested in the many points at which identity intersects with politics. Our coverage runs from in-depth political reporting — on underground abortion networks, for example, or on abolitionists’ 911 alternatives — to reviews of the latest batch of bisexual novels and reports on feminist politics from Afghanistan to Mexico. We publish established and emerging writers and artists, delivering their work to readers in over a dozen countries.

The Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung is an internationally operating, progressive nonprofit institution for political education. The foundation’s New York Office works on issues concerning the United Nations - including amplifying voices of marginalized people - and fostering a leftist transatlantic dialogue.

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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.

 

 

 

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 Leonard is editor-in-chief of Lux magazine. She is a contributing editor to Dissent and The Nation.

 

 

Emily Janakiram is a writer and a member of NYC for Abortion Rights.

 

 

 

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