Driving Women Forward

As a women-operated group that seeks to help the fight to create an equal American society within the poll booth and in the larger societal structure, we are often faced with the realities of injustices present in both spaces. Whether those injustices are targeted at an individual’s socioeconomic standing, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, ability, or gender, we see them and fight to help dismantle them daily. Since 2018 we have made it our goal to accommodate as many American voter needs in terms of transportation as we could, and in the past months, we have made it our mission to use our platform to spread information and the history that encompasses voter suppression.

Today, we take the time to continue our mission while praising the bravery of countless American women who never stopped fighting for voting equality. We recognize that it is because of these women that we are able to work together to build on the foundation that they have left for us.

Whether that foundation was set in Mary Wollstonecraft’s infamous essay “A Vindication of The Rights of Women,” or in Abigail Adam’s plea to her husband to “Remember the Ladies,” or in the “Declaration of Sentiments” set forth by the first Women’s Rights Convention, one thing remains to be true that women find strength by building off one another.

This strength, however, is continuously fractured when we ignore the injustices that face fellow women throughout the United States of America. Unfortunately, history has time and time again proven that we can often neglect or overlook the barriers that hold fellow women back in the hyper-ablest, racialized, and practical American government machine. At Rideshare2Vote, we take the time today to acknowledge the work of American Women who broke through countless barriers as they fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920 while also taking the time to address current barriers presented in the voting process.

Today, countless American women of varying races, ethnicities, sexualities, abilities, and socioeconomic standings find it difficult to get to a polling location. It is our mission to grow large enough so that transportation is no longer an infringement on an individual’s right and willingness to vote. We envision an American society that gives all voters the tools to vote how they choose to without the doubt of proximity.

by Rideshare2Vote