Welcome to women's history month 2024, where even in California, progress feels like finding tampons in the public bathroom, then realizing they're the kind with no tube.
Atkins was the only woman - a queer one at that - to have held both of the Legislature's top jobs. Her leadership was marked by a bipartisan respect, a strength and wisdom that only a lesbian from the mountains of Appalachia could summon in a place known for rivalries as intense as they are petty.
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