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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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Also the job of historians is “to pursue the truth”? Whose truth?

Historians don’t seek THE truth. We understand there are multiple truths.
November 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Wokeness ruining the workplace (circa 1910).
Anti-suffrage postcard depicting an angry man forced to care for a baby while fuming: "This ain't no man's job." The implication is that women's insistence on political equality ("wokeness") would require him to do so-called women's work (take care of children) and thus ruin men's work.
November 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Suffragist jail door pin.
November 5, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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More about the history of the pin here:
www.loc.gov/exhibitions/...
“Prisoner of Freedom” Pin | Surviving Prison and Protecting Civil Liberties | Confrontations, Sacrifice, and the Struggle for Democracy, 1916–1917 | Explore | Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight fo...
Tells the story of the seventy-two-year campaign for women's suffrage. Considered the largest reform movement in American history, its participants believed that securing the vote was essential to ach...
www.loc.gov
November 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Yes, I have a few. So cool!
November 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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When you vote today, remember the suffragists who fought for the right to vote.
#GOTV #Vote
Suffragist with banner "To Ask Freedom for Women is Not a A Crime."
November 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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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
Suffragist Dora Lewis released from Occoquan in a weakened state. Library of Congress.
November 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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“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
Image of hunger-striking British suffragette being force-fed in Holloway Prison.
November 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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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
Helena Hill Weed, Norwalk, Conn. Serving 3 day sentence in D.C. prison for carrying banner, "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed." July 6-8, 1917. Library of Congress.
November 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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October 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Important piece. Thanks!
October 16, 2025 at 1:24 PM