It's International Women's Day, so when you see people zooming by on electric scooters, I remember Lady Norman and her autoped. She was a suffragist who insisted on being mobile without manly "protection" :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priscilla_Norman
(UPDATE: Yes, many men in the replies. The autoped used a combustion engine, I know. My post is however NOT about the autoped, it's about the woman standing on it. I know, that's really hard for some of you to deal with. :)
“Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.”
- psychiatrist who examined jailed #suffragist Alice Paul in 1917
Photo via Wikimedia Commons The history of science, like most every history we learn, comes to us as a procession of great, almost exclusively white, men, unbroken but for the occasional token woman—well-deserving of her honors but seemingly anomalous nonetheless. “If you believe the history books,” notes the Timeline series The Matilda Effect, “science is a guy thing.
Luhrs & Associates Celebrated 👩⚖️#WomensEqualityDay! 🇺🇸
❓Did you know, on August 26, 1920, Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby signed the certificate ratifying the #19thAmendment granting women the right to vote in the United States!
✨We honor these champions of the suffrage movement:✨
• Alice Paul
• Jovita Idar
• Patsy Mink
•. Ida B. Wells
• Mary McLeod Bethune
• Debra Lekanoff
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Susan B. Anthony
• Carrie Chapman Catt
#HarrietTubman, who, after being born into #slavery, became an #abolitionist instrumental in the #UndergroundRailroad; #LucyStone, a prominent abolitionist & #suffragist; #MedgarEvers, a #CivilRights leader who was assassinated by a member of the Ku Klux Klan; #CesarChavez, a #labor leader; & #DoloresHuerta, another labor leader.
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#WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #Heterosexism #bigotry #discrimination #hate #Trump #PeteHegseth #military #Tyranny #AmericanAutocracy
The #Feminist Who Inspired the #Witches of #Oz
The #untoldstory of #suffragist #MatildaGage, the #woman behind the curtain whose life story captivated her #soninlaw #LFrankBaum as he #wrote his #classic #novel
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #History #WomensRights #Entertainment #TheArts #Literature #Books #Reading #Representation #Culture
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-feminist-inspired-witches-of-oz-180985334/
📣 Learn more about the suffrage heroes: https://tinyurl.com/v4fwrkuv
#vote #righttovote #suffragist #suffrage #womensequalityday #19thamendment
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