Plank Like RBG

About

Plank Like RBG refers to a gathering in Washington, D.C. in celebration of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg's 86th birthday inspired by a photograph of Ginsberg exercising. At the event, participants will perform the exercise planking, while wherein which one holds their torso and legs up on their forearms and toes.

Origin

On June 27th, 2018, Julie Cohen, director of the Ginsberg documentary RBG, tweeted ^[1] a photograph of Ginsberg planking. They captioned the photograph, "America to Justice Ginsburg: Just. Keep. Planking." Within the year, the post received more than 14,000 retweets and 72,000 likes (shown below).

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Following the release of the photograph, the website The-Outrage^[2] began using "Plank Like RBG" merchandise, including shirts, sweatshirts and waterbottles.

On October 31st, 2018, Twitter^[3] user @KayMathers1 tweeted a video of their Ginsberg Halloween costume, which inlcluded the shirt (shown below).

This one’s for you #rbg#RuthBaderGinsburg #planklikerbg(yes I may do a Ginsberg later tonight) pic.twitter.com/AtG0Idb5p8

— Kay Mathers (@KayMathers1) October 31, 2018

On February 13th, 2019, the website The-Outrage launched a Facebook ^[4] event for "Plank Like RBG 86th Birthday Celebration at Supreme Court." I the event description they write:

On March 15th, we will take over the steps of the United States Supreme Court to revel in the celebration of all celebrations – aka Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Birthday. Together as a community we will PLANK LIKE RBG, showing our respect to THE. MOST. SUPREME. woman who has relentlessly fought for justice for 60+ years.

Why the heck are we planking, you ask?
In a recent interview, when RBG was asked who the most important person was in her life, she replied, "My trainer." RBG planks day in and day out so that SHE. CAN. KEEP. DISSENTING. I mean, come on, what would we do without her?! Come join The Outrage as we celebrate one of our favorite icons and the OG feminist.

On March 10th, The Daily Dot ^[5] published a report on the event. As of March 12th, 2019, the event has more than 460 people marked "going" and 2,000 marked "interested."

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