Maya Rodale
@mayarodale.bsky.social
Bestselling author of funny, feminist historical fiction. Substack: Hidden Herstories. Women's History for Modern Feminists. www.mayarodale.substack.com.
"Ever since woman took her life in her own hands, ever since she began to think for herself, the dawning of a great light has flooded the world."
--hope from the feminists of 1887
--hope from the feminists of 1887
October 26, 2025 at 10:36 AM
"Ever since woman took her life in her own hands, ever since she began to think for herself, the dawning of a great light has flooded the world."
--hope from the feminists of 1887
--hope from the feminists of 1887
"Now I’m old, all constraints are gone and I can do what I like,” she said. One of her recent songs includes the chorus: “So shout out, fuck it / It’s my time! / The stage is mine! / I’m 79 / And in my fucking prime.”
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
‘We were the original punks’: the rebel women revitalising local music scenes
A thriving movement is reclaiming the genre and bringing more diverse audiences to live venues
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
"Now I’m old, all constraints are gone and I can do what I like,” she said. One of her recent songs includes the chorus: “So shout out, fuck it / It’s my time! / The stage is mine! / I’m 79 / And in my fucking prime.”
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
"If the lady you mention will only sleep all she wants, and make it a rule to rest when she is tired, she will never get ill."
--Life advice from Suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1866. Your feminist foremothers want you to take a nap!
--Life advice from Suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1866. Your feminist foremothers want you to take a nap!
September 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"If the lady you mention will only sleep all she wants, and make it a rule to rest when she is tired, she will never get ill."
--Life advice from Suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1866. Your feminist foremothers want you to take a nap!
--Life advice from Suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1866. Your feminist foremothers want you to take a nap!
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I adored Some Like it Scandalous by @mayarodale.bsky.social! Best HEA I've read in ages. Great story topped off with a perfect proposal.
September 3, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I adored Some Like it Scandalous by @mayarodale.bsky.social! Best HEA I've read in ages. Great story topped off with a perfect proposal.
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To save the lives of infants and small kids in lower resource countries, there are a handful of tools: anti-malarial drugs, bed nets and vaccines. A massive experiment in rural Kenya suggests another. n.pr/4fKcjw3
Researchers discover a secret weapon that saves babies' lives. And it's not medical
To save the lives of infants and small kids in lower resource countries, there are a handful of tools: anti-malarial drugs, bed nets and vaccines. A massive experiment in rural Kenya suggests another.
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August 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
To save the lives of infants and small kids in lower resource countries, there are a handful of tools: anti-malarial drugs, bed nets and vaccines. A massive experiment in rural Kenya suggests another. n.pr/4fKcjw3
US Representative: "Now ladies, what is really the legal status of marriage, so far as the condition of the wife is concerned?"
Susan B. Anthony: "One of servitude, and of the hardest kind, and just for board and clothes, too."
--House Judiciary Meeting in 1871
Susan B. Anthony: "One of servitude, and of the hardest kind, and just for board and clothes, too."
--House Judiciary Meeting in 1871
August 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
US Representative: "Now ladies, what is really the legal status of marriage, so far as the condition of the wife is concerned?"
Susan B. Anthony: "One of servitude, and of the hardest kind, and just for board and clothes, too."
--House Judiciary Meeting in 1871
Susan B. Anthony: "One of servitude, and of the hardest kind, and just for board and clothes, too."
--House Judiciary Meeting in 1871
Today's fast fashion factories sound a lot like Gilded Age sweatshops: "...sewing on hundreds of buttons, or ironing hundreds of collars. Depending on the complexity of the task, workers earn between one and 10 yuan per item, toiling for long hours in cramped conditions."
China’s fast-fashion capital slows down under Trump’s trade war
Guangzhou is the humming heart of the global fast fashion industry, but uncertainty over US tariffs is putting pressure on orders and profits
www.theguardian.com
August 1, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Today's fast fashion factories sound a lot like Gilded Age sweatshops: "...sewing on hundreds of buttons, or ironing hundreds of collars. Depending on the complexity of the task, workers earn between one and 10 yuan per item, toiling for long hours in cramped conditions."
"If women, on being made really free to choose, will not marry, then we must arraign men on the charge of having made the married state so irksome and distasteful to women that they prefer celibacy when they dare enjoy it."
--19th century women on the 21st century "male loneliness epidemic"
--19th century women on the 21st century "male loneliness epidemic"
July 25, 2025 at 12:07 PM
"If women, on being made really free to choose, will not marry, then we must arraign men on the charge of having made the married state so irksome and distasteful to women that they prefer celibacy when they dare enjoy it."
--19th century women on the 21st century "male loneliness epidemic"
--19th century women on the 21st century "male loneliness epidemic"
Maybe affordable, quality childcare is our generational equivalent of the fight for women's right to vote or to legalize birth control. buff.ly/Me9O6Pn
Childcare is a hellscape for most US families. Why isn’t there a bigger push for change?
Long seen as women’s work, childcare is underpaid and considered a private matter for families – not government
www.theguardian.com
July 12, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Maybe affordable, quality childcare is our generational equivalent of the fight for women's right to vote or to legalize birth control. buff.ly/Me9O6Pn
"Resolved, That the members of this society do hereby pledge themselves not to aid either by their labor, time or money, the proposed celebration of the independence of the men of the nation, unless before July 4, 1876, the women of the land shall be guaranteed their political freedom."
July 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
"Resolved, That the members of this society do hereby pledge themselves not to aid either by their labor, time or money, the proposed celebration of the independence of the men of the nation, unless before July 4, 1876, the women of the land shall be guaranteed their political freedom."
Ever since I first read this story of Susan B. Anthony helping an abused wife escape—breaking the law to do so—I couldn’t stop thinking about it. This is sisterhood in action.
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Susan B Anthony and the Runaway Wife
Legally wrong but morally right
mayarodale.substack.com
June 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Ever since I first read this story of Susan B. Anthony helping an abused wife escape—breaking the law to do so—I couldn’t stop thinking about it. This is sisterhood in action.
buff.ly/N7sGrRb
buff.ly/N7sGrRb
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Incredible mom energy from Mira Nair
June 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Incredible mom energy from Mira Nair
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Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
slate.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
"Why do these people submit to the cruel tyranny that our government exercises over them?" The answer is apparent—"simply because they are ignorant of their power."
--The Complete History of Women's Suffrage
--The Complete History of Women's Suffrage
June 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"Why do these people submit to the cruel tyranny that our government exercises over them?" The answer is apparent—"simply because they are ignorant of their power."
--The Complete History of Women's Suffrage
--The Complete History of Women's Suffrage
"In our hearts we feel that there is a word sweeter than mother, home, or heaven. That word is liberty."
Matilda Joslyn Gage (1829-1898)
Matilda Joslyn Gage (1829-1898)
June 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"In our hearts we feel that there is a word sweeter than mother, home, or heaven. That word is liberty."
Matilda Joslyn Gage (1829-1898)
Matilda Joslyn Gage (1829-1898)
Imagine listing the occupations of Florence Nightingale, Millicent Fawcett and other reformers as "blank" on census records! It happened and it's how women get erased from history.
Contributions of 68 million women unrecognised in historical records | London Daily News
The legacies of 68 million women could go unrecognised in history, with census records labelling them as ‘unoccupied’. That’s according to researchers at family history website Findmypast¹, who…
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June 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Imagine listing the occupations of Florence Nightingale, Millicent Fawcett and other reformers as "blank" on census records! It happened and it's how women get erased from history.
“It is not enough that we should have the vote. We need the means by which the votes are cast.”
Ranked Choice Voting Is A Women’s Issue
In 1916, Jeannette Rankin began her historic run for Congress.
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June 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
“It is not enough that we should have the vote. We need the means by which the votes are cast.”
Men were afraid that this would happen if women got the vote.
June 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Men were afraid that this would happen if women got the vote.
Women in 1855: "Women must have equal pay for equal work."
Women in 2025: "Women must have equal pay for equal work and wtf why are we still fighting for this!?"
Source: The Complete History of Women's Suffrage
Women in 2025: "Women must have equal pay for equal work and wtf why are we still fighting for this!?"
Source: The Complete History of Women's Suffrage
May 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Women in 1855: "Women must have equal pay for equal work."
Women in 2025: "Women must have equal pay for equal work and wtf why are we still fighting for this!?"
Source: The Complete History of Women's Suffrage
Women in 2025: "Women must have equal pay for equal work and wtf why are we still fighting for this!?"
Source: The Complete History of Women's Suffrage
"In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of woman. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer."
--Lucy Stone in 1850, Suff who made it possible for modern women to get free
--Lucy Stone in 1850, Suff who made it possible for modern women to get free
May 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of woman. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer."
--Lucy Stone in 1850, Suff who made it possible for modern women to get free
--Lucy Stone in 1850, Suff who made it possible for modern women to get free
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Don’t rank Cuomo!!
Good morning, NYC. We have some very exciting news to share.
May 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Don’t rank Cuomo!!
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Happy Birthday to Amelia Bloomer! She would be 207 today, and appalled at how relevant her arguments still are for the legal and social rights of women, and all genders.
Amelia Bloomer
A fascinating look at an underappreciated woman in American history whose newspaper fostered a national conversation on women’s issues.Those who recognize the name Amelia Bloomer usually do so because...
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May 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Happy Birthday to Amelia Bloomer! She would be 207 today, and appalled at how relevant her arguments still are for the legal and social rights of women, and all genders.
Apparently, the scariest thing about emancipated and enfranchised women is that men might have to do housework and childcare. Don't promise me a good time!
May 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Apparently, the scariest thing about emancipated and enfranchised women is that men might have to do housework and childcare. Don't promise me a good time!
"Did he ever take in the idea that to the mother of the race, and to her alone, belonged the right to say when a new being should be brought into the world?"
--Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1855 on the rights of women to their own bodies. Outrageously still relevant.
--Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1855 on the rights of women to their own bodies. Outrageously still relevant.
May 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"Did he ever take in the idea that to the mother of the race, and to her alone, belonged the right to say when a new being should be brought into the world?"
--Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1855 on the rights of women to their own bodies. Outrageously still relevant.
--Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1855 on the rights of women to their own bodies. Outrageously still relevant.
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It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
May 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.