From The Huffington Post (2.9.17):
Writer and artist Courtney Privett was reading the news on Wednesday as she prepared breakfast for her two daughters, 2 and 5 years old.
Like many around the country, she’d already learned how Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) cut off Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) as she tried to read a 1986 letter written by Coretta Scott King about Senator Jeff Sessions, who was nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as attorney general.
“Sen. Warren was giving a
lengthy speech,” McConnell said later. “She had appeared to violate the
rule. She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she
persisted.”
It didn’t take long for those final two words to gain traction around the internet,
becoming a rallying cry for all the women who had spent their lives
being judged, objectified, condescended to, ignored, silenced, attacked
and, yes, “warned.” Women who, nevertheless, persisted.
The event made Privett think
of her young daughters and what micro- and macroaggressions they would
endure because they are women. “I was thinking, ‘I hope they don’t have
to listen to the same stuff I did,’” she said in a phone interview with
The Huffington Post.
To express her fears and
frustrations, Privett began to draw. “Drawing has been my way of not
getting overwhelmed recently,” she explained. “Then I can put it on
paper and set it aside.”
