“Girls” Interrupted: On the Breathtaking Leadership of Generation Z

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Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem is professor of English at the City University of New York. Two new scholarly collections edited by Maureen will soon appear: Imperial Debt: Colonial Theft, Postcolonial Reparations (Liverpool University Press, 2024) and The (New) Routledge Companion to Toni Morrison (Routledge, 2025). She lives in Brooklyn.

Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch painter who made profound narrative images, pictures set in the stoniness of dry paint that nevertheless contain movement. They have trajectories, like stories do. One of his best-known is “Girl Interrupted at Her Music” . This one, permanently installed at The Frick Collection in upper Manhattan, pictures a girl of perhaps 16 or 17 years who is being schooled presumably on the cittern, a Renaissance era guitar.

Demonstrated last Thursday was clear evidence of a concerning deafness, like Clinton’s, to what is happening in the world today and why. That the union leadership suffers deafnesses and blindnesses, further illustrated in the president’s choice to speak first and against the resolution. But how, pray tell, could the resolution have had any chance of succeeding then? That generational deaf, blind gap was demonstrated finally in a 114-40 “no” vote last Thursday.

 

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