ブルックリン美術館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (ブルックリン美術館Instagram)「The Brooklyn Museum community mourns the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Justice Ginsburg was born in Brooklyn in 1933. Her family lived in Flatbush and she attended James Madison High School on Bedford Avenue. Ginsburg visited the Brooklyn Museum frequently as a child and in 2019 she gifted us her “favorite” portrait created by artist Constance P. Beaty. Ginsberg graduated first in her class from Columbia Law School, after transferring from Harvard, where the Dean famously asked her cohort of female students, “Why are you at Harvard Law, taking the place of a man?” Pushing past numerous instances of sexism, she would go on to become the first tenured woman at Columbia, devoting her career to advancing gender equity and the rights of women. In the early 1970s she co-founded the Women’s Rights Law Reporter, the first law journal in the United States devoted to advancing women’s rights and the Women’s Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union, arguing six gender discriminations cases before the Supreme Court in that capacity. She won five of them. She was appointed Associate Justice in 1993 by President Bill Clinton, the second woman to serve on the Court. Her long tenure as a Justice was vitally important to upholding and advancing the rights of women, LGBTQ, and many other communities that had long faced discrimination in the United States. Ginsburg is believed to be the first Supreme Court Justice to officiate at same-sex wedding and she relished her cultural moment as “The Notorious RBG.” Called “the great dissenter” for the important challenges she wrote while on the Court, Ginsberg said, “Dissenters speak to a future age ... the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant voice. So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today, but for tomorrow.” Rest in peace RBG. May your memory be a revolution.」9月19日 22時51分