Newark, Albany, South Dakota

Newark, Albany, South Dakota

We are stuck more firmly in one place than ever, while talking easily with everywhere and anywhere. Ergo, an appreciation of three intensely place-specific works of suffrage public history that women are making. Reply w/more!

NEWARK - Noelle Lorraine Williams still brings Newark history to life on Instagram every day. When I can cross the Hudson again I’m going to her “Radical Women" exhibit at the @NewarkLibrary, which fuses voting rights past & present w/great art.

Noelle does such amazing work as a scholar, artist, public historian, and activist! Check out my interview with her for @QueerNewark & you can find her on Instagram: @black_abolitionists_newark https://t.co/vjXWp0JMSM

— Kristyn Scorsone (@ykristyn) April 8, 2019

ALBANY - @AlbanyMuskrat Julie O’Connor writes beautiful longform essays 👇 And she reconstructed Albany suffrage history by tracking down every woman who voted in 1880s schoolboard elections AND those turned away--more than 150 white and Black women.

SOUTH DAKOTA - The landscape is majestic and so is @LizAlmlie’s website. SoDak's suffrage story in detail, organized beautifully, with timeline, biographies, places, primary & secondary sources. And she made the art!

Daily Suffragist

20/05/2020