TODAY IN THE @GUARDIAN, I write about Zoe Leonard's 1992 statement "I want a president" and its relevance to today's politics, 30 years on: ⭐️ LINKINBIO TO READ ⭐️ Some extracts: "...intended to be published as a statement in an underground LGBT magazine, I Want a President was written in the run-up to the 1992 US presidential race ... at the height of the Aids epidemic, a medical issue turned political crisis that was, in the previous decade, catastrophically silenced by Ronald Reagan..." "...Leonard’s piece spoke passionately about her desire for a progressive leader. Her sentences demanded empathy from politicians who had clearly never shared the experiences of those from the “wrong” race, class, sexuality or economic bracket..." "...Leonard’s lines bring home the fact that empathy, as a trait, is not regarded as powerful ... Why are those in power so afraid to say when they have been wrong..." "...It reappeared under the High Line in 2016, in the run-up to the presidential election that saw in Donald Trump..." #ZoeLeonard #WomenArtists