Message from: Sharon Rae Jenkins, SPW Apportionment Chair
We lost an important feminist voice this year; well, several, but I’m not talking about Jean Lau Chin or others who have left us in the most difficult way. SPW lost a feminist vote on APA Council because not enough feminists turned in their apportionment ballots last November. That’s a feminist voice silenced. Please stay with me as I head into the bureaucratic weeds, because that’s where the tiny things that can make a big difference live. Some of them bite, poisonously. APA Council is the American Psychological Association’s legislative body, where policy—feminist or not—is set for all of APA. APA is our psychologist voice in Congress and (in better years) our leverage on federal mental health policy. That voice needs to be as feminist as we can make it, to direct its attention to renewal of the Violence Against Women Act, for example. If you belong to APA, you get to vote for APA presidents like Jessica Henderson Daniel, Rosie Phillips Davis, and now Sandra Shullman. That’s much mor