Ladies’ Night at the DNC

Kamala Harris’ big night was also the Democrats’ invocation of girl power

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
GEN
Published in
5 min readAug 20, 2020

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Sen. Kamala Harris speaks on the third night of the Democratic National Convention. Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images

In the hours before the Democratic National Convention began on Wednesday, all I could think of was that stupid glass ceiling.

You know the one: Hillary Clinton put 18 million metaphorical cracks in it back in 2008. Her face symbolically shattered it at the 2016 convention…

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle
GEN
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Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.