February 8, 2026

Dear Friends and Family,

It’s Super Bowl Sunday 2026, and the cultural fireworks are everywhere: Bad Bunny headlining the official halftime show with his gender-fluid flair, Latino pride, and progressive messaging, while Turning Point USA fires back with its “All-American” rival event featuring Kid Rock and unapologetic traditionalism. The headlines are screaming about identity, nationalism, and whose version of America gets the spotlight. Millions are tuned in, picking sides in this latest culture-war showdown.

Me? I’m deliberately tuning out. Today I’m chowing on mac’n’cheese, and a full-on binge of Franklin & Bash—that silly early-2010s show about two rogue lawyers who win impossible cases with stunts, bromance, and zero respect for stuffy courtroom rules. Pure escapism. No commentary tracks, no hot takes, just Mark-Paul Gosselaar in flip-flops and Jared Franklin’s ridiculous closing arguments making me laugh out loud. But even as I chuckle at their beach-style Animal House antics, the irony isn’t lost on me. This Super Bowl spectacle—progressive boundary-breaking on one side, conservative “traditional values” on the other—is the perfect distraction from the one thing both camps keep ignoring: the unfinished struggle for actual, constitutional equality for women based on biological sex.

Bad Bunny’s performance is celebrated as feminist allyship and anti-machismo, yet the broader progressive framework he represents has blurred the critical line between sex and gender identity. DEI-era “inclusivity” has opened women’s sports, shelters, and private spaces to males who identify as women—eroding the very sex-based protections women need for safety, privacy, and fairness. Keeping women’s sports female-only isn’t transphobic; it’s essential. On the flip side, TPUSA’s patriotic counter-programming rightly pushes back against gender ideology in some areas (like protecting female athletes), but its vision of “traditional” womanhood often keeps us tethered to subordinate roles—marriage and motherhood first, leadership optional. Both sides are partially sighted and fully blind to the bigger picture: without explicit constitutional protection on the basis of sex, women’s rights remain vulnerable to whichever cultural wind blows hardest.

Super Bowl Sunday also quietly reminds us of persistent violence against women. The old myth of a massive spike in domestic violence reports has been debunked, but the day’s high-stakes atmosphere—alcohol, crowds, charged emotions—can still trigger real danger in abusive homes. Performative halftime messages won’t fix that. Only strong, sex-based legal equality will.

That’s why, even on my lazy binge day, I can’t stop thinking about the petition urging Senator Lisa Murkowski to champion Senate Joint Resolution 38—the bill that would finally clear the path to publish the already-ratified Equal Rights Amendment. The ERA would enshrine in the Constitution: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged… on account of sex.” Simple. Powerful. Overdue.

Women first. Biological sex matters. The ERA protects female bodies, female spaces, female opportunities—without watering them down for gender ideology or chaining them to outdated tradition. So yes, I’m escaping into Franklin & Bash today. I hope you’re enjoying whatever brings you rest and joy—whether it’s the game, a walk, a book, or your own comfort binge. But no matter what you’re watching or doing this Super Bowl Sunday, please make this one thing a priority: the time for the ERA is now.

Take two minutes to sign the petition asking Senator Murkowski step up and do the job she was elected to do… push the envelope and lead the Senate with a Dear Colleague letter and push SJ Res 38 forward. Then share it far and wide.

Here’s the link: https://c.org/bsbRTjmKKR

Let’s push past 500 signatures, then 1,000, then the thousands needed to finally make history.

Forward, sisters, forward, brothers, forward—until the ERA is the 28th Amendment.

Love and Light in Christ, 

Helene de Boissiere-Swanson