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Women's Christian Temperance Union/Frances WillardBuilding mass appeal almost always means making your ideas less threatening. Once persuaded, new adherents may want the cause to reflect their own…
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…
We'll come back for you later...1. ElizCadyStanton & Susan B Anthony’s objections to Black male suffrage were racist. But supporters of the 15thA were not anti-racist. In fact,…
The Nathan SistersTwo sisters were among New York’s most prominent society women at the turn of the last century…one a vigorous suffragist, the other an equally…
The Mother of Us All, part ISusan B Anthony was a lesbian. There’s solid evidence of her romantic relationships with women, and contrary evidence doesn’t exist. You didn’t know?…
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…
Seneca Falls to StonewallObama’s 2d inaugural invoked a throughline “from Seneca Falls to Selma to Stonewall.” Brett Kavanaugh has surely been itching to object since. In…
Rosh Hashana, Day 2: Meet Pauline NewmanPauline Newman was dykier than Rose. At 16 she led the biggest rent strike in NYC. After scores of friends died in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, she…
Rosh Hashana, Day 1: Meet Rose SchneidermanTo ring in the Jewish new year, I’m highlighting 2 women whose impact on labor rights for all working people -esp. women- endures. Both fierce union…
National Coming Out DayHappy #ComingOutDay to Anna Howard Shaw & Lucy Anthony! Shaw led the movement from 1904-1915. She wasn't our greatest leader, TBH. But she was a…