Did you know some schools prohibited social studies teachers from discussing the inauguration? Kelsie and Brooke start this episode by talking about how important it is to model civil discourse over issues that are controversial and how current events is where the women are-- if you block it, you block women's history. Then, of course, they talk about the woman of the hour-- Kamala Harris.
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