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And keep sending us sites of memory related to women's suffrage that you come across! We're especially eager to enrich our map for regions where content is still sparse 🌎

You can find all the information on this bust on our online map: framacarte.org/fr/map/sites...

The bust was created by the Columbian sculptror Olga Inés Arango in 2007 and was set among 13 other busts of important local women in Medellín. In 2019, the busts were moved to the more central location of la Playa to be made more visible.
© Picture by Alejandro Rojas (SajoR)

Among the last sites of memory you sent us is our first monument in South America: a bust of the lawyer and activist Rosita Turizo de Trujillo. She was part of the 1954 suffragette movement that made it possible for Colombian women to vote for the first time in 1957.
©Portrait Julián Roldán 2011

Then there's...

DISTANT SISTERS by @jameskeating.bsky.social 🌏

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526167118/

Emotion and Space in the Mid-Victorian Women’s Suffrage Movement – Lucy McCormick Separate Spheres The doctrine of the ‘separate spheres’ – women’s confinement in the home while men freely roamed the public world – is entrenched in popular imaginings of Victorian life. Historian…

New blogpost!

Lucy McCormick writes about emotion and space in the mid-Victorian Women's Suffrage Movement. She explores how anti-suffragists weaponised emotion in relation to politicised spaces, and how suffragists renegotiated these links.

Read here: womenshistorynetwork.org/emotion-and-...

une série d'émission sur le droit de vote des femmes!!!!!!
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

And we welcome suggestions at any time so keep telling us about the sites of feminist memory celebrating women suffrage you can spot in the public space 👀 🚩 ideally using the following form columbo.univ-amu.fr/index.php/83...

🏁 Our Six Weeks for Suffrage Campaign is over 🏁
Thank you everyone for the 35 new monuments you have sent us 🙌 Our team is processing them and they will appear shortly on our website!
framacarte.org/fr/map/sites...

Here are the links:
Map: framacarte.org/fr/map/sites...
Form: columbo.univ-amu.fr/index.php/83...
Email: feministmemory@gmail.com

Looking forward to your suggestions! 😊

Only 10 days left in our Six Weeks for Suffrage campaign!Thank you to everyone who has sent us suggestions of sites of feminist memory to include on our map via the online form, by email or here on BlueSky. Please keep them coming!

Do you live near a women's suffrage memorial? Help researchers at Aix-Marseille uni to map it alongside hundreds of others.
Celebrate and value global histories of democracy and feminist activism - a powerful message given ebbing support in the twenty-first century
framacarte.org/fr/map/sites...

Thank you so much Lucy for spreading the word! And thanks to everyone who responded! Our small team is gathering up your suggestions and will be adding them gradually to our map. We're now on bluesky so don't hesitate to send more suggestions our way 🤓