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Katie Porter is why men didn't want women to vote.

Alice Paul & Lucy Burns didn’t rebel against the mainstream suffrage organization. It kicked them out. Natl Am. Woman Suffrage Assoc was an organization of white moderates. Religiously conservative, politically mainstream, proudly respectable.…

We know Seneca Falls had a mixed-sex audience, which was still rare. Susan B Anthony wasn't there: she didn’t join the movement until a few years later. Frederick Douglass was the most famous person in attendance, and played a pivotal role. Stay…

Have you heard of the National Women’s Conference? Do you know that in 1977, 2,000 delegates representing the racial and economic makeup of each US state & territory met in Houston? And that it was funded by the federal govt? Thread. Photo by…

One of these sculptures was made by a man, one by a woman. You can guess, right? (Representation of power thread.) Luciano Garbati says his “Medusa With The Head of Perseus” is a statement about avenging sexual violence. It was installed this month…

When your origin story is on the #WrongSideOfHistory, it tends to get whitewashed.  Such is the case with the @CooperHewitt, a marvelous museum to visit, even digitally. Their website tells the story of its founding sisters, but doesn’t mention their…

Ida B Wells’ crusade against lynching succeeded for many reasons: her investigative rigor, her talent as a writer and speaker, her relentlessness. But her first, crucial insight was recognizing that white women were lying. Thread. Until Ida published…

The 15th Amdt was ratified on Feb 3 1870. At @NYCBarAssn last night, I sat closer to the front than usual. I had never noticed this quote on the dais before & the date.👇 Related to local judicial corruption, not Reconstruction. But it struck…

Joy: learning there is a Schoolhouse Rock treatment of the 19th Amendment! Sorrow: watching it. From 1976; same year as "I'm Just a Bill." This is...bad. It says almost nothing at all, it misidentifies Susan B Anthony, and it's not even catchy. 

Imagine that in decades of state ballot initiatives on LGBT rights, no gay people were permitted to vote. Or imagine there's a referendum about a tax increase but only those who won't pay the tax can vote. That's what the women's suffrage fight was…