How to Talk to a 9-year-old About the First Woman Vice President-Elect

Nisha Mathur
4 min readNov 13, 2020
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A Woman Vice President? What the…

I’m trying to remember being 9 years old, equipped with my used 3rd grade history textbook. Flipped to the right page, there were portraits of 40~ white men displayed side-by-side like an unnecessary yearbook. They were the United States’ presidents. I never questioned the monotonous race or sex as I stared at…

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Nisha Mathur

Thoughts on current events and growing up, coated with humor