Browse Items (25 total)
Live-tweeting PBS' The Vote, Part IIHoping they'll mention that after her two husbands, Carrie Chapman Catt spent the last 30+ years of her life with Mary Garrett Hay. Leaving it right…
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…
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…
Meet Anna DickinsonThere were no microphones in the struggle for suffrage. Radio didn't yet exist. Public lectures were the only way to hear new ideas, and giving a…
Military ServiceThe connection between military service and citizenship demands constant critique. Yet for someone who finds it incomprehensible why a person would…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…