1918 Flu pandemic
In 1918 flu pandemic killed more men than women - the movement's leaders were unscathed, and the catastrophe gave women a chance to step forward in public life. <br /><br />👇 Ty @<a href="https://twitter.com/JulieCSuk" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">JulieCSuk</a> for sharing & @<a href="https://twitter.com/BlackburnCrudo" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">BlackburnCrudo</a> @<a href="https://twitter.com/Wendelbom12" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Wendelbom12</a> for <a href="https://theconversation.com/how-the-devastating-1918-flu-pandemic-helped-advance-us-womens-rights-91045?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">the detail.</a><br /><br /><br /><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Anna Howard Shaw, herself a medical doctor, died of pneumonia on July 2, 1919, and I've wondered if that was related to the pandemic. She was 70. Another incredible figure who deserves to be better known.</p>
— Kevin Douglas (@KevinSDouglas) <a href="https://twitter.com/KevinSDouglas/status/1241145850677604353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
<br /><br />A doctor, an ordained minister, a happily partnered lesbian - and alas, a lousy organizer. But definitely deserving of more attention! Thank you.Â
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20/03/2020
April 3, 1968
Our leaders are humans with frailties and errors. Biblical Moses was wracked with depression & self-doubt. "I have been to the mountaintop and I have seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but we as a people will get to the promised land." <br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Oehry1JC9Rk" frameborder="0"></iframe>
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04/04/2020
Bye, Susan Collins
Indispensable @<a href="https://twitter.com/rtraister" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">rtraister</a> profiling Susan Collins. Esp 👀 <a href="https://nymag.com/article/2020/02/the-immoderate-susan-collins.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">"For a long time, Collins has profited from collective fantasies about women in politics being inherently more reasonable, more naturally inclined toward collaboration and moderation." </a>
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05/02/2020
Contemporary Politics, state assembly edition
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06/12/2020
ERA update
Wanna know what's happening w/ERA ratification but afraid to ask? @<a href="https://twitter.com/ProfTracyThomas" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">ProfTracyThomas</a> has a concise summary.
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Arguments as to Why the ERA Can Still be Ratified Now--After the Deadline <a href="https://t.co/Yges8GPkO2">https://t.co/Yges8GPkO2</a></p>
— Gender Law (@ProfTracyThomas) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfTracyThomas/status/1220015352693673985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
<br />But if even that's too long, start here: <br /><br />1. The deadline isn't required & it isn't binding & Congress can modify it. <br />2. Can states rescind? Unclear. <br /><br />Q: Which states sought to rescind in the 70's? <br />A: Nebraska, Tenn, S.Dakota, Idaho & Kentucky. <br /><br />In Kentucky, Lt Gov Thelma Stovall used her power as acting governor to veto the bill. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040123082919/http://www.womeninkentucky.com/site/public_service/T_Stovall_statement.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Her reasoning:</a> <br /><br />Q: How many states had female governors in the 1970s? <br />A: 2
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30/01/2020
Getting the President's Attention
Direct action strategies almost always start with a modest gesture, which is pilloried as inappropriate and impolite. Once activists escalate to more disruptive tactics, the earlier strategy is lionized as “the right way to protest.” Strategy thread. <br /><br />More than a year before suffragists began picketing the White House, they tried getting President Wilson’s attention by asking for an appointment. Wilson was planning a public appearance in Philadelphia - at the swearing-in of 4,000 new citizens on May 10, 1915. <br /><br />Alice Paul wanted him to feel suffragists’ presence everywhere he went, so she sent two emissaries: Dora Lewis and Anna Lowenburg to the White House to ask Wilson to meet with suffragists while in Philly. Dora Lewis was 20 years Alice’s senior and one of her closest confidantes. <br /><br />From an established Philadelphia family, Dora Lewis had raised 4 young children after her husband was killed in a train accident. She was a longtime suffragist, active in NAWSA before shifting her allegiance completely to <br /><br />Anna Lowenburg was a good partner for this mission: an officer of the Penn. Woman Suffrage Assoc, she had hiked to Washington with Rosalie Jones’ pilgrims in 1913, and then served as PA’s chief marshal in the pre-Inauguration march. She was also an immigrant, a Jew from Russia. <br /><br />Lewis & Lowenburg were appropriate spokespeople for the women of Phila.; Lowenburg even more as a naturalized citizen. They wanted to know why the men whose naturalization Wilson celebrated would become voters, but no woman - native born or naturalized - would have the chance. <br /><br />They spent three days at the White House waiting for a moment with the President. (Calling on POTUS in-person wasn’t unheard of then.) Wilson ignored them. Wilson's secretary, a man sympathetic to the suffragists, later apologized to Dora Lewis for the inconvenience. <br /><br />The President couldn't see the suffragists because he was “necessarily engaged in matters which seemed to be of consequence to the whole world.” Expecting that Lewis & Lowenburg would be snubbed, Lucy arranged for newsreel photographers to meet them outside the White House. <br /><br />Mainstream suffragists derided these tactics: Anna Howard Shaw criticized the women for “heckling” the president. To NAWSA leaders like Shaw & Carrie Chapman Catt, everything Alice Paul & Lucy Burns did smacked of the aggressive tactics they had learned in England. <br /><br />The press adopted NAWSA’s tone and reported on a “siege” of the White House. Wilson was so irritated by two white women sitting in his antechamber that he got the newsreel men to scrap the footage. <br /><br />In the end, world events overtook the story. Two days before the Philadelphia event, a German submarine torpedoed the ocean liner Lusitania off the coast of Ireland. It sank in 18 minutes, killing 1,200 civilians, 128 of them American. <br /><br /><iframe width="1518" height="533" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IIVHiAizhgI" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br />Alice and Lucy, who had been debating whether to try and corner Wilson in Philadelphia, took the public’s temperature and decided to pull back. “[I]t does not seem the moment or place to start any more aggressive tactics,” Alice wrote Lucy on May 10. “¼ of those [Americans] lost on the Lusitania were Philadelphians and the city seems to be thinking of nothing else.” #Suffrage100 #19thAmendment
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03/08/2020
I really don't care, do you
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Our nation's young people ARE engaged in picketing the White House in protest, just as the suffragists did, <a href="https://twitter.com/FLOTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FLOTUS</a> They are picketing the brutal policies of your husband and his administration. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/suffrage?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#suffrage</a> <a href="https://t.co/7NzKPT5KRO">https://t.co/7NzKPT5KRO</a></p>
— Elaine Weiss (@efweiss5) <a href="https://twitter.com/efweiss5/status/1272673994274230272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 15, 2020</a></blockquote>
<br /><br />@<a href="https://twitter.com/efweiss5" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">efweiss5</a> @<a href="https://twitter.com/FLOTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">FLOTUS</a> Oh. Wow. She really has no idea, does she?
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15/06/2020
Pandemic begins
Great illustrated thread about 1918 flu pandemic in my hometown. Note WWI-era temporary change in spelling of Pittsburg(h). <br /><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p lang="en" dir="ltr">THREAD<br />On October 4th, 1918, Charles Patterson, a 29-year-old resident of Aspinwall, died in St. Francis Hospital. This was the first known death caused solely by the Influenza Pandemic that would soon encapsulate <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Pittsburgh?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Pittsburgh</a>. <a href="https://t.co/vUvgC0CMEb">pic.twitter.com/vUvgC0CMEb</a></p>
— Odd Pittsburgh (@OddPittsburgh) <a href="https://twitter.com/OddPittsburgh/status/1238159458313928706?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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12/03/2020
Senator Warren drops out
No US woman could vote, except some in New Jersey, in: <br /><br />1776 <br />1777 <br />1778 <br />1779 <br />1780 <br />1781 <br />1782 <br />1783 <br />1784 <br />1785 <br />1786 <br />1787 <br />1788 <br />1789 <br />1790 <br />1791 <br />1792 <br />1793 <br />1794 <br />1795 <br />1796 <br />1797 <br />1798 <br />1799 <br />1800 <br />1801 <br />1802 <br />1803 <br />1804 <br />1805 <br />1806 <br />1807 <br /><br />No US woman could vote in: <br /><br />1808 <br />1809 <br />1810 <br />1811 <br />1812 <br />1813 <br />1814 <br />1815 <br />1816 <br />1817 <br />1818 <br />1819 <br />1820 <br />1821 <br />1822 <br />1823 <br />1824 <br />1825 <br />1826 <br />1827 <br />1828 <br />1829 <br />1830 <br />1831 <br />1832 <br />1833 <br />1834 <br />1835 <br />1836 <br />1837 <br />1838 <br />1839 <br />1840 <br />1841 <br />1842 <br />1843 <br />1844 <br />1845 <br />1846 <br />1847 <br />1848 <br />1849 <br />1850 <br />1851 <br />1852 <br />1853 <br />1854 <br />1855 <br />1856 <br />1857 <br />1858 <br />1859 <br />1860 <br />1861 <br />1862 <br />1863 <br />1864 <br />1865 <br />1866 <br />1867 <br />1868 <br />1869 <br /><br />No US women could vote fully, except some in Wyoming and Utah, in: <br />1870 <br />1871 <br />1872 <br />1873 <br />1874 <br />1875 <br />1876 <br />1877 <br />1878 <br />1879 <br />1880 <br />1881 <br />1882 <br />1883 <br />1884 <br />1885 <br />1886 <br /><br />No US woman could vote fully, except some in WY, in: <br />1887 <br />1888 <br />1889 <br />1890 <br />1891 <br />1892 <br />1893 <br /><br />No US woman could vote fully, except some in WY & Colorado, in: <br />1894 <br />1895 <br /><br />No US woman could vote fully, except some in 4 states, in: <br />1896 <br />1897 <br />1898 <br />1899 <br />1900 <br />1901 <br />1902 <br />1903 <br />1904 <br />1905 <br />1906 <br />1907 <br />1908 <br />1910 <br /><br />Most US women could not vote in: <br />1911 <br />1912 <br />1913 <br />1914 <br />1915 <br />1916 <br />1917 <br />1918 <br />1919 <br /><br />Native American women could not vote until 1924. Puerto Rican women could not vote until 1935. Immigrant women from throughout Asia could not vote until 1952. African-American women in the South could not vote until 1965. Many formerly incarcerated women cannot vote today. <br /><br /><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Please stop calling all of us Native and Indigenous women “Native American”. Our nations reject this Fed created (in the 1950s) colonized term.</p>
— ndngenuity (@ndngenuity) <a href="https://twitter.com/ndngenuity/status/1235866756272410624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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05/03/2020
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Seneca Falls to Stonewall
Obama’s 2d inaugural invoked a throughline “from Seneca Falls to Selma to Stonewall.†Brett Kavanaugh has surely been itching to object since. In dissent yesterday he wrote: “Seneca Falls was not Stonewall.†I know more about both of those things than he does. So, a primer.🧵 <br /><br />Things the women’s rights conference at Seneca Falls in 1848 & the Stonewall uprising of 1969 have in common: <br /><br />* Both were led by radicals <br />* Both featured important Black leaders <br />* Neither was the first protest on its topic. Paulina Wright Davis & Ernestine Rose had lobbied a decade for the Married Women’s Property Act in NY. Before Stonewall, national gay orgs like Mattachine Society existed; 👇🾠picketing the White House in 1965. <br />* Both were in the great state of New York <br />* Both lasted for several days <br />* Both included people of all races & genders, like Lucretia Mott & Sylvia Rivera, Frederick Douglass & Marsha P. Johnson, all pictured above. <br />* Both were repeated annually thereafter. Larger National Woman’s Rights Conventions took place in a different city each year beginning in 1850. One year after Stonewall, the first Pride marches were held in NY, LA, Chicago, and SF to mark the anniversary of the uprising. <br /><br />So they seem pretty similar, huh? There were a few differences: <br /><br />* Planning - Seneca Falls was planned just a few weeks before it happened; the attendees came from the surrounding area. Stonewall was a spontaneous response to yet another police shakedown of LGBTQ bars. <br />* Violence - The women at Seneca Falls suffered no violence, though just 10 years earlier a mob burned down the Philadelphia hall where another co-ed, interracial group gathered. <a href="https://nowthisnews.com/videos/politics/eric-marcus-details-stonewall" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Stonewall featured violence by and against the police.</a> Watch @<a href="https://twitter.com/EricBMarcus" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">ericbmarcus</a> <br />* Publicity - Few people heard about the Seneca Falls convention at the time. It was covered extensively only in Frederick Douglass’ newspaper The North Star. News of Stonewall reached people faster via mimeograph machines, radio, telephones, and television. <br /><br />In both movements, polite protest only got us so far. Success ultimately required confronting the system aggressively, and accepting that violence and jail might result. #TimesUp #MeToo #NoJusticeNoPeace #CenturyofStruggle #BlackLivesMatter #Suffrage100
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16/06/2020
<a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/17-1618_hfci.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">SCOTUS LGBT Rights Decision</a>