Negative Space: Alexander Hamilton
- Ariel Burr, first woman on U.S. currency
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Trans female and founder finally overcomes 19th century transphobia and political rival as first woman on United States paper currency. Ariel Burr will be the new face of the ten dollar bill, says Jack Lew.
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- Hamilton getting booted off the $10 bill and replaced with a woman
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“Not only was Hamilton the first Treasury Secretary, he was ardently anti-slavery, and arguably one of the nation’s most crucial founding fathers. ‘An online petition earlier this year urged the administration to replace Jackson with abolitionist Harriet Tubman by 2020, the 100th anniversary of the constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote,’ wrote USA Today. That would’ve been a noble cause—replacing a pro-slavery wild man with a female abolitionist.”
