Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a pioneering feminist and an inspiration to women across the country (and world). And as Justice Ginsberg has been fighting for gender equality for decades, it’s likely no coincidence that the official trailer for the upcoming documentary film about her, titled “RBG,” was released on Wednesday.
Appropriately timed for International Women’s Day, the trailer previews an intimate and inspiring look into Ginsberg's continuous fight for human rights, what it was like pursuing a career in a male-dominated field, and how she became the second female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
"I ask no favor for my sex; all I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks," she says.
Ginsburg was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1993 by President Bill Clinton. Prior to serving on the Supreme Court, she was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in 1980. In the 1970s, she served as the director of the Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. She also taught Rutgers University Law School and at Columbia University, where she became the first woman tenured professor.
"I became a lawyer when women were not wanted by the legal profession," Ginsburg says in the trailer clip. "I did see myself as kind of a kindergarten teacher in those days because the judges didn't think sex discrimination existed."
The trailer alternates between clips of Ginsburg working out — lifting weights and doing planks — to signing autographs to showing her in various other situations outside of the Supreme Court. Viewers are treated to shots of esteemed women’s rights activists praising her accomplishments.
“When you come right down to it, [she’s] the closest thing to a superhero I know,” feminist icon Gloria Steinem says.
In the trailer, there are clips of Ginsburg talking about her personal life too and relationship with her late husband Martin David Ginsburg.
“I’ve had the great good fortune to share life with a partner truly extraordinary for his generation,” Ginsburg says in the documentary clip. “He was the first boy I ever knew who cared that I had a brain”
At age 84, Ginsburg indeed is unstoppable — and still passionate about her work and career. Her fame almost seems comical to her though.
"I'm 84 years old and everyone wants to take a picture with me,” Ginsburg jokes.
The film will be released on May 4.
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