Feministory

From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why strongmen rely on women at home Fascist regimes pushed narratives of domestic bliss, yet relied on women’s unpaid labor. In the US today, ‘womanosphere’ influencers promote the same fantasies

My new essay on how women end up laundering the failures of fascism here! www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Catharine MacKinnon

10/7/1946 — b. Catharine MacKinnon, American lawyer, feminist theorist, professor. A widely cited English language legal scholar; she defined the term and legal claim for #SexualHarassment, and SCOTUS adopted her argument that SH was a form of discrimination (1986) #womenshistory #gov #law #VAW #OTD

Know Your Rights | Protesters’ Rights | ACLU The First Amendment protects your right to assemble and express your views through protest. However, police and other government officials are allowed to place certain narrow restrictions on the exerc...

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#protesters #demonstration #equalrights #democracy #democracia #DemocracyInAction #DemocracyMatters #Democratic #VoteBlueToSaveAmerica #civilrights #protest #rally #nokingsinamerica #WorkersRightsAreHumanRights #immigrantrights #immigrants

Kathryn F. Clarenback

10/7/1920 — b. Kathryn F. Clarenback, American women’s rights activist, feminist and educator. An early modern feminist leader in the United States; founding member and the chair of the National Organization for Women #womenshistory #womensrights #feminism #NOW #OTD

“When I liberate others, I liberate myself.”
~ Fannie Lou Hamer, born this day in 1917
Photo taken in Mississippi in 1971 by Louis Draper
#fannielouhamer #LouisDraper #liberate #womensrights #activist #leadership #leadershipmatters #civilrights #civilrightsmovement #civilrightsactivist

Born #OTD 1896, Dorothy Lawrence was a journalist determined to report from the front line of World War One. So she posed as a man and made her way to the heart of the conflict. Hear her story in our Women and War podcast: tinyurl.com/yu4yedh6 #history #womenshistory

Catalyst for peace? Welsh women’s 100-year-old petition gets new home Exhibition at National Library of Wales marks historic event that has also inspired a wave of activism

It's worth marking the effort to see the Welsh Women's Peace Petition exhibition - it's an amazing story www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... and you can search the petition on-line www.library.wales/peacepetition #Peace #WomensHistory

#OnThisDay of AZ History in 1933, Isabella Greenway was elected Arizona's first female member of Congress. This 1932 photo shows Greenway at the Democratic Convention in Chicago where she was Democratic National Committeewoman for Arizona.
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#ArizonaHistory #Womenshistory

Mary Elisabeth Dreier

9/26/1875 — b. Mary Elisabeth Dreier, American social reformer, suffragist. Leading speaker for women’s #labor reform. President, NY Women's Trade Union League (1906-14); chair, NYC Woman Suffrage Party. Only woman on the NY State Factory Investigating Comm, Triangle Fire (1911) #womenshistory #OTD

Mary Church Terrell seated

9/23/1863 — b. Mary Church Terrell, American suffragist, civil rights + women's rights activist, author, educator. Founder, Colored Women’s League (1892); first president, Natl Assn of Colored Women(1896). Picketed White House w/Natl Wmns Party (1919); charter member, NAACP #womenshistory #woc #OTD

Victoria Woodhull standing

9/23/1838 — b. Victoria Woodhull, American suffrage leader, financial speculator, broker, publisher, feminist. The first female candidate to run for U.S. President for the #EqualRights Party (1872). She & her sister were the first wmn to open and operate a Wall St brokerage firm #womenshistory #OTD

Norma McCorvey with hands around a pole

9/22/1947 — b. Norma McCorvey, American legal plaintiff, activist, writer. Aka “Jane Roe”; the anonymous plaintiff in the landmark Roe v. Wade legal case (1973), one of the most controversial and famous SCOTUS decisions of the 20th century #womenshistory #womensrights #reprorights #Roevember #OTD

Christabel Pankhurst

9/22/1880 — b. Christabel Pankhurst, English suffrage leader evangelist, political activist, author, lecturer. Co-founder, Women’s Social and Political Union; leader, WSPU’s militant campaign (1912-13). Eldest dau of British suffrage mvmnt leader Emmeline Pankhurst #womenshistory #womensrights #OTD

Louise McKinney

9/22/1868 — b. Louise McKinney, Canadian #gov official, #womensrights activist, suffragist. The first female member of the Alberta Legislative (1917); the first woman elected to a Canadian legislature and in the British Empire. One of the Famous Five in the Persons Case (1929) #womenshistory #OTD

Women worldwide earn nearly 20% less than men for the same work. On International Equal Pay Day, we demand economic justice—because equal pay is a human right. 💙 #EqualPayDay #GenderJustice #WomensRights #Feminism #MakeBillionairesPay

Here’s a brutal little dose of reality for anyone naïve enough to think “the good old days” ever actually existed!
#WomensRights

Catharine Beecher seated

Black + white line art of the Hartford Female Seminary

9/6/1800 — b. Catharine Beecher, American educator, author, lecturer. Founder of the Hartford Female Seminary (1823), early major educational institution for young wmn in the U.S. Founder, American Woman’s Educational Assn (1852); brought schools to underserved regions #womenshistory #education #OTD

Image of Fanny Wright seated at her desk

9/6/1795 — b. Frances Wright, Scotish-American author, abolitionist, reformer, feminist + freethinker. Founder of Nashoba, which prepared slaves for emancipation. Converted her NYC church to a “hall of science”where she lectured on women’s legal rights #womenshistory #womenwriters #womensrights #OTD

Claudette Colvin

9/5/1939 — b. Claudette Colvin, American civil rights activist, medical professional. Pioneer of the Af-Am Civil Rights mvmnt; at 15, she refused to give up her seat to a white person and to move to the back of the bus (1955), 9 months prior to Rosa Parks same action #womenshistory #civilrights #woc

9/5/1859 — Harriet E. Wilson publishes ‘Our Nig’, the work was considered the first novel published by an African-American in the United States but has now been contested by another manuscript #womenshistory #womenwriters #woc #OTD

Eileen Mary Challans seated at desk with typewriter.

9/4/1905 — b. Eileen Mary Challans, English-born South African author. Pseudonym Mary Renault; historical novelist and an expert on ancient Greece. Renowned for her scholarship and detailed works on ancient civilizations; she was a critic of apartheid #womenshistory #womenwriters #OTD

As indeed they were in WW1
#WomensHistory

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Controlling Women: The Untold Story of Britain's First Female Police Force
Sandra Hempel
newbooksnetwork.com/controlling-... #booksky #womenshistory -- lots of interest here, wwi, unusual coalitions, advocacy SA survivors, etc

Sarah Barnwell Elliott standing in cap and gown.

8/29/1848 — b. Sarah Barnwell Elliott, American writer, playwright, women’s rights activist and suffrage leader. Wrote novels, short stories, poems, essays, articles and letters. President of the Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association (1912-14) #womenshistory #womenwriters #womensrights #OTD

Anna Ella Carroll

"The War Powers of the General Government" | Pamphlet by Anna Ella Carroll | 1861

8/29/1815 — b. Anna Ella Carroll, American political writer, publicist, lobbyist, activist. Publicist for the Union cause during the Civil War and advisor to President Lincoln. Wrote noted + widely-distributed #CivilWar pamphlet, “The War Powers of the General Government” (1861) #womenshistory #OTD

Jo Freeman

8/26/1945 — b. Jo Freeman, American political scientist, attorney, theorist, feminist, author. Early organizer of the women’s liberation movement; 10+ books, extensive writings on wmn, notable classic feminist articles, #law + public policy toward wmn #womenshistory #womensrights #WomensEqualityDay

National Woman’s Party members (Alice Paul second from the right) standing in front of the NWP headquarters with a banner titled: ” ‘No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex.’ Susan B. Anthony 1872 and 1894.”

8/26/1920 — The 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution officially commences guaranteeing woman suffrage #WomensEqualityDay #womenshistory #womensrights #votingrights #OTD "No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex" —Susan B. Anthony 1872

Bainbridge Colby | 1920

8/26/1920 — Secretary of State, Bainbridge Colby receives the ratification certificate from Tennessee and signs the proclamation, the #19thAmendment to the US Constitution is adopted & women of the United States are enfranchised with the vote | #WomensEqualityDay #womenshistory #womensrights #OTD

National American Woman Suffrage Association suffrage banner art stating "Equal Suffrage is the Birthright of Woman".

AUGUST is U.S. Women’s Equality Month!

Women's Equality Day is August 26th, commemorating women’s right to vote in the United States (1920)

#womenshistory #WomensRights #WomensEqualityMonth #WomensEqualityDay #ShePersisted #Planet5050