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A Dyke on HorsebackA Dyke on Horseback ~ One more story from the 1912 New York City suffrage marches~ 🐴thread courtesy of @WendyLRouse Annie Rensselaer Tinker…
Belva Lockwood & Dr. WalkerBelva Lockwood and Dr. Mary Edwards Walker
circa 1912
Mary Grew & Margaret BurleighMary Grew, abolitionist leader & newspaper editor. Her work was respected by all the men in the movement—except her own father. Mary >> back…
It's National Coming Out Day!It’s #NationalComingOutDay Let’s fling open the suffrage closet, shall we? We could start almost anywhere. How ‘bout the biggest suffrage org, NAWSA.…
Lesbian Erasure from the CentennialWe gotta talk about lesbians. Specifically, about lesbian erasure. Queer is cool, right? It’s 2020! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️etc., etc. So why…
Military ServiceThe connection between military service and citizenship demands constant critique. Yet for someone who finds it incomprehensible why a person would…
Mabel & FlorenceSurgeons gonna surgeon, and Dr. Mabel Seagrave was practically giddy about what she could learn by going to war. She anticipated “a wonderful advance…
Why you've never heard of this composerI appreciate that @BlachlyJames was honest when the NYT asked why he initially hesitated to conduct Ethel Smyth’s work. “I have to confess I had this…
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt liked to be in charge, and she was good at it. She ran the National American Woman Suffrage Association twice, first in 1900 when…
The last decade always feels fastThe fight for a federal amendment was so painfully slow that everything after the 1913 Inauguration march looks like a sprint to the finish line. It…