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Working the pollsDr @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…
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…
What's been bugging me since I was 10Imagine 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…
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,…
Voting rights todayIHO the beginning of our centennial year, a quick spotlight on PRO-voting, anti-suppression tools. While some states are making it harder to vote,…
Voting is everythingVoting 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,…
The Emma Goldman Institute for CapitalismToday’s “March for Life” takes the 19th Amdt as its theme. The anti-abortion movement regularly invokes Susan B Anthony, ElizCadyStanton & Alice…
Suffrage colors: Inauguration Day recapSuffrage colors, a recap! Wasn’t planning to, but I’ve seen some silly myths floating around. So here goes… YELLOW originated w. 1867…
StatuesIn NYC we have statues of two great suffragists. They've been standing watch over neighborhood protests these weeks. 👈Frederick Douglass at…
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…