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Working the polls
Dr @marthasjones_ says we shouldn't talk about suffrage, we should talk about voting rights. There's no before and after, just an ongoing struggle. In that spirit, forgive me sharing a piece about the mechanics of voting today. Our rights depend on…
Women's Christian Temperance Union/Frances Willard
Building mass appeal almost always means making your ideas less threatening. Once persuaded, new adherents may want the cause to reflect their own more conservative interests. For the vanguard, this instrumental tradeoff rarely feels good. To take…
Tags: contemporary relevance, Frances Willard, LGBT, WCTU
What's been bugging me since I was 10
Imagine that in decades of state ballot initiatives on LGBT rights, no gay people were permitted to vote. Or imagine there's a referendum about a tax increase but only those who won't pay the tax can vote. That's what the women's suffrage fight was…
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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 supporters were the more conservative, cautious, and upper-class of what became two factions…
Tags: contemporary relevance, LGBT, Racism
Voting rights today
IHO the beginning of our centennial year, a quick spotlight on PRO-voting, anti-suppression tools. While some states are making it harder to vote, these are ways to EXPAND access to the ballot - and they're growing! See end for how to bring these…
Voting is everything
Voting is everything...and it's so insufficient. It took lifetimes to win, and needs our work to keep. In the words of the future Governor of Georgia, perhaps our future President: “Voting will not save us from harm, but silence will surely damn us…
The Emma Goldman Institute for Capitalism
Today’s “March for Life†takes the 19th Amdt as its theme. The anti-abortion movement regularly invokes Susan B Anthony, ElizCadyStanton & Alice Paul. Suffragists indeed inspire people of varied opinions - but anti-abortion groups are lying…
Suffrage colors: Inauguration Day recap
Suffrage colors, a recap! Wasn’t planning to, but I’ve seen some silly myths floating around. So here goes…
YELLOW originated w. 1867 suffrage referendum in Kansas. Local suffragists made cloth ribbons in the color of the state…
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Statues
In NYC we have statues of two great suffragists. They've been standing watch over neighborhood protests these weeks. 👈Frederick Douglass at 110th St with a beautiful North Star bench 👉Harriet Tubman at 122nd w/her passengers in her skirts. More…
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…
Tags: contemporary relevance, LGBT, Seneca Falls