{"id":48557,"date":"2016-08-04T17:40:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T17:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48557"},"modified":"2016-08-04T17:41:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T17:41:10","slug":"glamour-exclusive-president-barack-obama-says-this-is-what-a-feminist-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48557","title":{"rendered":"Glamour Exclusive: President Barack Obama Says, “This Is What a Feminist Looks Like”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Glamour Exclusive: President Barack Obama Says, “This Is What a Feminist Looks Like”<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Glamour<\/a>
\n2016-08-04<\/p>\n

Barack Obama<\/strong><\/a>, President of the United States
\nWashington, D.C.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nThe Perk of a “45-Second Commute”<\/strong> The President has spent “a lot more time” watching Sasha and Malia<\/a> (here, meeting Mac the Turkey in 2014) grow into women.
\nOfficial White House Photos by Pete Souza<\/a><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

There are a lot of tough aspects to being President. But there are some perks too. Meeting extraordinary people across the country. Holding an office where you get to make a difference in the life of our nation. Air Force One<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But perhaps the greatest unexpected gift of this job has been living above the store. For many years my life was consumed by long commutes\u00ad\u2014from my home in Chicago<\/a> to Springfield, Illinois<\/a>, as a state senator, and then to Washington, D.C.<\/a>, as a United States senator. It\u2019s often meant I had to work even harder to be the kind of husband and father I want to be.<\/p>\n

But for the past seven and a half years, that commute has been reduced to 45 seconds\u2014the time it takes to walk from my living room to the Oval Office<\/a>. As a result, I\u2019ve been able to spend a lot more time watching my daughters grow up into smart, funny, kind, wonderful young women. That isn\u2019t always easy, either\u2014watching them prepare to leave the nest. But one thing that makes me optimistic for them is that this is an extraordinary time to be a woman. The progress we\u2019ve made in the past 100 years, 50 years, and, yes, even the past eight years has made life significantly better for my daughters than it was for my grandmothers. And I say that not just as President but also as a feminist…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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