We Must Write Women Back Into the Story
Originally published by Jean Kilbourne for Ms. Magazine
The erasure of women under President Trump’s new administration isn’t subtle. It’s sweeping, strategic, and dangerous. This is more than censorship. It’s a political act—a rewriting of who gets to count in America’s story. The names, faces, and accomplishments once proudly displayed on military websites and federal pages are now reduced to blank screens and broken links.
I’ve spent decades studying how women are silenced, sidelined, and sold short. Still, I didn’t expect to see their very names vanish from our national memory—almost overnight.
But this is how erasure works—not with a bang, but with a quiet deletion. It’s not an accident. It’s an agenda.