Lydia Moland

Ballot Blocked Episode 2 - The Transnational Activism of Mary Church Terrell (U.S. National Park Service)

For more on Mary Church Terrell's pacifist activism, I loved this interview with Dr. Noaquia Callahan Banks.
#womenshistory #womenshistorymonth #blackhistory

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Day 9 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: US suffragist & activist Mary Church Terrell.

Terrell rethought #pacifism to foreground racial justice, arguing that “you may talk about permanent peace till doomsday, but the world will never have it till the darker races are given a square deal.”

#herstory

Clara Zetkin with Kristin Gjesdal

For more on Zetkin, I highly recommend @kristingjesdal.bsky.social's incisive interview with @herplacepod.bsky.social, especially re Zetkin's analysis of fascism. She died in exile in 1933--she knew what she was talking about.

#IWD #IWD2026 #herstory #womenshistory

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Day 8 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld HAD to be philosopher Clara Zetkin!

Zetkin rethought women's role in socialism, insisting on working women's inclusion in feminism. She also originated International Women's Day!

#herstory #IWD #womeninphilosophy #IWD2026

American Idealists: Redrawing the Social Order AbstractThis chapter charts the critical reception of Hegel’s social and political philosophy in the hands of Susan Blow, Anna Brackett, and Marietta Kies,

Andreja Novakovic wrote beautifully about Blow and other American women Hegelians here: it's a rich tradition!

#philsky #Hegel #womenshistory
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Day 7 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: American philosopher and educator Susan E. Blow

Blow rethought American education by using Hegel (yes, Hegel) to advocate for American kindergartens. Opposing industrialized schooling, she insisted on play as a crucial to all children’s education.

#herstory

I hope they also stock Hegel.

Great tip. Am doing this now by reading Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Jessie Fauset as I research Mary Church Terrell’s pacifism. All three are fabulous thinkers and writers!

Staël’s Influence on Cooper and Alcott AbstractThe works of French Revolution–era philosopher Germaine de Staël were popular in nineteenth-century America. Her conception of human perfectibility

Bad news, good news: in posting about @sandrineankara.bsky.social's wonderful essay about Anna Julia Cooper, I accidentally attached ANOTHER wonderful essay about Cooper by Rachel Falkenstern. An embarrassment of riches! Apologies to Prof Bergès and here is the right one!
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Day 6 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: Hungarian feminist Rosika Schwimmer!

A radical #pacifist & refugee, Schwimmer rethought American citizenship by refusing to swear to take up arms to defend the country. She took her case to the US Supreme Court & lost in 1929. She died stateless

#womenshistory

Anna Julia Cooper and Philosophy AbstractAnna Julia Cooper (1858/9–1964) was an intellectual powerhouse, dedicated educator, and tireless activist, best known for her Black feminism. Her w

For more, see @sandrineankara.bsky.social 's wonderful essay tracing Germaine de Stäel's influence on Anna Julia Cooper and Louisa May Alcott

#philsky #womeninphilosophy #louisamayalcott #womenshistorymonth #herstory

Day 5 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: philosopher and historian Anna Julia Cooper!

Cooper rethought 19th century ideas of progress to define race and foreground women. To quote bell hooks: “one of the first black activists to urge black women to articulate their own experiences.”

#blackhistory

I got caught in the middle of a smuggling ring on a train between Estonia and Warsaw in the mid 1990s

Congratulations to @sandrineankara.bsky.social and @alanmsjcoffee.bsky.social on this important book!
#philsky #womeninphilosophy #womenshistory #herstory

Continuing to listen to David Levering Lewis's riveting biography of Du Bois.

In today's chapter, Lewis suggested that Du Bois combined the voices of Sojourner Truth and Schopenhauer and I have not been able to think straight since.

#DuBois #sojournertruth #blackhistory #schopenhauer #philsky

Thank you--so enlightening, if discouraging, to read this history.

Christine Ladd-Franklin AbstractChristine Ladd-Franklin was an American mathematician, logician, psychologist, and philosopher who studied at Vassar and Johns Hopkins and worked i

Read more on Christine Ladd-Franklin here!
#philsky #womeninphilosophy #herstory #womenshistory
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Day 4 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: philosopher, logician, and psychologist Christine Ladd-Franklin!

Ladd-Franklin rethought thought (!) by asking how mathematics & #logic are related. She rethought color by combining #psychology & evolutionary science into a theory of perception.

#WomeninSTEM

Agreed--just finished her novel Iola Leroy and can't stop thinking about it . . .

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: Religion and the Meaning of Democracy in America AbstractAfrican American poet-activist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper addressed the meaning of democracy in America throughout her long social reform career.

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Day 3 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: theorist, novelist & reformer Frances Ellen Watkins Harper!

In "Our Greatest Want," Harper rethought #Tocqueville's theory of public opinion & the story of Moses to argue for a multiracial, democratic society.

H/t Prof. Marcia Robinson! #blackhistory #herstory

Seconded! Here's an image of an exhibit honoring her at the Peace Palace in The Hague. Her novel--Die Waffen Nieder, or Lay Down your Arms--launched modern #pacifism and is absolutely worth reading today.

#WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld #womenshistory #herstory

Thrilled to build on this post--Zitkala-Ša was my next pick for #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld.

Zitkala-Ša, a Yankton Dakota Sioux, rethought the relation between colonizing teacher & indigenous pupil, refusing to call the culture attempting to kill her own a "civilization."

#herstory #nativeamerican

This #WomensHistoryMonth, I'm highlighting 19th and 20th-century women whose work helped rethink the world.

First up: Jane Addams!

Addams' research with Chicago immigrants shaped a philosophy of #pacifism recognized by a #Nobel #Peace Prize in 1931.

#WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld #philsky #herstory

On this *particular* first day of #womenshistorymonth, this image seemed appropriate.

These American women were on a ship bound for Europe to try to end WWI.

#pacifism #philsky #womenshistory #womensbiography #janeaddams #peace #20Chistory #wwi

Thanks to @tullioviola.bsky.social for this wonderful talk on Jane #Addams, WEB Du Bois and the #epistemology of folk narratives. So many rich philosophical threads.
#dubois #philsky #womeninphilosophy #pragmatism

I love Black activist Mary Church #Terrell's refusal here to let her (white) readers dismiss her simple reporting of facts as "bitterness." What a powerful way to claim your story.

#blackhistorymonth #suffrage #pacifism #19C

Brilliant! Thank you!

I am riveted by the account of Du Bois studying German #philosophy at Humboldt University in #Berlin in this incredible biography. The audiobook read by Courtney Vance is . . . did I already say riveting? Resolved: get more philosophers talking about this ...
#philsky #blackhistorymonth #dubois

Thank you! Loved doing this interview--such rich material