Katherine Alford - The Transformative Power of Flour, Fury, and Womens Voices (A Cookbook with More Than 50 Recipes)

1961, Ban the Bomb March in front of the White House, organized by Womens Strike for Peace

Stephanie Schriock

President of EMILYs List

I believe in the power of women in all of their roles.

After all, Im the president of EMILYs List, an organization that has existed since 1985 to elect pro-choice Democratic women. Many people dont know that our name is based on a baking punEMILY isnt a person, its an acronym. Early Money Is Like Yeast it makes the dough rise. Created at a time when no Democratic woman had been elected to the Senate in her own right and there were fewer than twenty-five women in Congress, EMILYs List has since grown from a fund-raising organization into a powerhouse that has helped more than 1,200 women get elected to offices up and down the ballot. We train candidates, raise and donate money to support them, run independent expenditures, and work with women candidates through their wins and losses.

Weve been around a long time and are proud of our success, but even we saw something different after Donald Trump got elected. Suddenly the number of women who reached out, looking for help running for office, skyrocketed. Women were marching, they were donating, they were knocking on doors and voting, and they were RUNNING FOR OFFICE. In 2018, we had our biggest election cycle, supporting more women than ever, including the twenty-four women who flipped Republican House seats (and, in turn, flipped the House and made a woman Speaker), the two new Democratic women senators, four new women governors, and literally hundreds of women in state and local offices around the country.

Despite that growth, women are still represented in less than 25 percent of Congress and hold less than a third of state legislative offices. And we still havent cracked that hardest and highest glass ceiling of allthe White House. Which means here at EMILYs List, we cant let up, even a little.

So it was a natural fit when Kathy and Katherine got in touch about donating some of the proceeds of this amazing book to EMILYs List. We love the fact that some of your Rage Baking can help out women across the country, those running for the first time and those running for reelection, in their efforts to make their communities better.

Thank you for your support of EMILYs List and the amazing women we support. Lets all put our rage into both our baking and our activism, in whatever form that takes. As a veteran of many campaigns around the country, I can tell you that campaigns can always use both volunteers and baked goods. I hope youll consider both.

Kathy Gunst

I t was late September 2018. I was glued to the television. I listened all day as the Senate grilled Dr. Christine Blasey Ford about the incident, as they called it, with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. I watched as Rachel Mitchell, a female prosecutor from Arizona, the woman puppet for the men in gray suits, asked the same questions over and over again.

I remember thinking: Why is this called a hearing? No one is really listening to Dr. Ford.

I kept asking myself: Why would this woman risk her career, family, safety, and reputation to challenge a Supreme Court nominee if it never really happened?

A line from a song in the musical Hamilton kept running through my head: No one else was in the room where it happened.

And I remember thinking, toward the end of the hearing, when it became clear that despite all the testimony, they would push Kavanaugh through: Women dont get heard. Women are considered hysterical if they sound the alarm over a mans bad behavior instead of accepting the old logic that boys will be boys.

In a press conference after the hearing, Senator Lindsey Graham from South Carolina, told reporters, I dont doubt something happened to her, but she is saying its Brett Kavanaugh but she cant tell me the house, the city, the month, or the year Ms. Ford is a very accomplished lady, something happened. I thought it was a good suggestion for her to go talk to someone and work through this.