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Wendy Rouse
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Professor, Historian, Author of Queer History of the Suffrage Movement & Her Own Hero: Origins of Women's Self-Defense, History Teacher Prep, #LGBTQHistory 🏳️‍🌈🗃️
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Wokeness ruining the workplace (circa 1910).
November 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
What? Women ruining things, yet again, with their insistence on equality?
November 6, 2025 at 11:36 PM
November 5, 2025 at 12:32 AM
When you vote today, remember the suffragists who fought for the right to vote.
#GOTV #Vote
November 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
When Ingham was finally permitted to visit her in prison, McShane was physically and emotionally drained. She wrote weeping, “Wonderful to see [Ingham], only I wanted so much to go home with her.”...
#GOTV #Vote
November 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
“I have just been forcibly fed, and I feel that every atom of American self-respect within me has been outraged. I have been seven days without food, and today I fainted on the floor of my cell."...
#GOTV #Vote
November 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Elizabeth McShane lived with fellow suffragist Mary Ingham. Ingham worried after learning that McShane was arrested and on hunger-strike in prison. In one desperate telegram Ingham asked “HAS ANYONE SEEN HER” and “WOULD THEY LET ME GO.” McShane finally sent a letter to Ingham...
#GOTV #Vote
November 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The suffragists who picketed the White House in 1917 demanding the passage of the 19th Amendment endured arrest & imprisonment for the cause. Many of them, estranged from their own families because of their commitment to the fight for democracy, relied on each other for support...
#GOTV #Vote
November 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Everything about this NYT cover kind of sums up where we are in this moment (most especially the apparently very important article on the Choco Taco).
September 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Happy 105th Birthday to the 19th Amendment! Here's hoping it has many more!
August 27, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Gee, it's almost as if they don't want us to learn any LGBTQ+ history at all. 🗃️ 🗺️ 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

Oh and they most definitely don't want you flying this flag:
August 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM
New book alert: Teaching LGBTQ+ History in High School by Stacie Brensilver Berman and Robert Cohen
#sschat 🍎 🗺️ 🗃️ #LGBTQHistory

www.routledge.com/Teaching-LGB...
July 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Today’s ruling threatens the very essence of public edu-
cation...strikes at the core premise of public schools: that children may come together to learn not the teachings of a particular faith, but a range of concepts and views that reflect our entire society...

Sotomayor's dissent
🗃️ 🏳️‍🌈 🍎 🗺️ #sschat
June 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
"The point of inclusivity is to use books representing a
diversity of identities and viewpoints the same way one
might use any other book, communicating that one’s
LGBTQ classmates should be treated in the same manner
as anyone else."

Justice Sotomayor's dissent
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#sschat
June 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Votes for Women (and ju-jitsu too)!
June 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
June 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Pride month break-ups are so 😥
June 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
April 19, 2025 at 2:35 AM
But we have always been here and always will be.

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#WomensHistoryMonth
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March 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Suffragist Alice Morgan Wright spent her life fighting for women’s rights. Wright's romantic relationships with women helped forge important alliances that further fueled a global women’s rights movement. 6/8

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#WomensHistoryMonth
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March 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Alice Dunbar Nelson lived a public life dedicated to racial justice and women's rights. Her private life was very queer. She had several romantic relationships with men and women throughout her life. 5/8

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#WomensHistoryMonth
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March 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Suffragist Dr. Mary Edwards Walker endured public ridicule, harassment, and arrest for wearing men’s clothing and advocating for dress reform. Walker’s challenge to a binary construction of gender was especially radical at the time. 4/8

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#WomensHistoryMonth
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March 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Annie Tinker’s "mannish" gender presentation was the talk of the town. Tinker led a cavalry of suffragists on horseback and used the press attention to advocate not only for the vote but for the right of women to choose any career of their choice. 3/8

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#WomensHistoryMonth
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March 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Suffragist Dr. Margaret Chung queered the norm in a number of gender-bending ways. Her masculine gender expression in her youth challenged preconceived notions of how a woman should dress and act. 2/8

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#WomensHistoryMonth
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March 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The government doesn't want you to know this history.
But they cannot erase us, because we won't let them.

Check out this #WomensHistoryMonth thread honoring some of the queer suffragists who fought for the vote. 1/8

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March 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM