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19th, the Musical

Alice Paul seems to be the star of #19theMusical, which just ran a few nights @WomenInTheArts. It's focused on the last decade of the movement: the…

Best film to show your class

If I told you there was a suffrage documentary that began with Lucretia Mott and ended with Fannie Lou Hamer, that felt contemporary and engaging for…

Book review

Hi, my name is Ezra, and I’m reviewing the book Finish the Fight, by Veronica Chambers and the staff of the New York Times.  Not all women could vote…

Centennial Celebrations

What if suffrage leaders from US, UK, Canada, Europe were all in one room? In https://t.co/NfFv1YUYhr they are! Check out the project @CentOfSuffrage…

Centennial coin, the gift that keeps on giving

Leaving this right here.  Why *wasn’t* the centennial coin created a long time ago? No one knows. https://t.co/gPqGFqywyK — Philip Bump (@pbump)…

How to DO something

Some *participatory* projects to honor and commemorate the women who fought for freedom: First, obviously: vote, register voters, and if you can, work…

I really don't care, do you

Our nation's young people ARE engaged in picketing the White House in protest, just as the suffragists did, @FLOTUS They are picketing the brutal…

IdaB at Union Station

If we had to pick just one person to represent the genius and tenacity of American women, it would be #IdaBWells. I only wish it were permanent. A…

Irish suffrage centennial

For the Irish suffrage centennial in 2018, Eavan Boland wrote an ode with a perfect title: Our Future Will Become The Past of Other Women. She died…

Irony has resigned.

In 1920, Crystal Eastman proposed a platform for the National Woman's Party, post-19th Amendment, that put support for working mothers at the center.…