#suffragette movement

[vox-anglosphere]

Suffragettes began peacefully - but soon turned Britain on its head

#Suffragette movement #women's suffrage #Votes for Women #London police #demonstrations #politics #British history #1910

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“ENGLISH SUFFRAGETTE "MARTYRS" SENT TO PRISON,” Ottawa Journal. December 2, 1911. Page 11. ---- Rather than pay fines for their physical demonstration against the government in London, the English suffragettes have again taken jail sentences. These pictures were taken when a previous suffragette party went to jail as "Martyrs".  The large picture shows one of them in her narrow cell at Holloway prison. At the side are three others, also prisoners. Note the arrow prison mark on their clothes, and the big numbered badges. At the left is the prison itself.

#suffragettes #women's suffrage #suffragette movement #passive resistance #sentenced to the penitentiary #women prisoners #prison for women #political prisoners #public order #british history #her majesty's prison service #holloway prison #history of crime and punishment

[letters-of-fire]

finally got to design my third FL character, Mary Hence!

she's 44, sapphic, and she came to London to avenge the murder of her lover. on the Surface she was a paleontologist and a campaigner for women's suffrage

she is a very no-nonsense lady, and a type that is willing to commit an arson/blow up a building/murder or die herself for a cause

#fallen london #oc: mary hence #I took a liberty to dress her in suffragettes' colors even though the movement doesn't yet exist technically #just a fun fact #my art

[thedeafprophet]

actually the main point of which Fallen London does not let me roleplay, is that the game 100% constantly forces you to have your character drink alcohol ahdjfjfggkgkkhkjj

#it was The Time Period so i get it XD but like #that wasnt a good thing lmao #whilst i do not agree with parts. there is a reason for the ties btwn the suffragette movement and prohibition #(due to the ties btwn it and domestic violence) but thats a whole other topic #prophet's fl nonsense

[inukradfem]

#radical feminism #radfems please touch #suffragist #suffragette #women's suffrage #suffrage movement #radfem #radical feminists please touch

[webandofsisters]

There is violet jewelry everywhere to represent the Suffragette movement but it looks like it is new invention. Does anyone know when the violet flower came to be associated with the Suffragettes?

#suffragette #womens suffrage #violet #women's rights movement

[mothman-dyke]

Hot take ik but it's actually pure shit and so sinister how we've arrived at a point culturally where referencing any historical feminists gets u met with "but they were problematic :/ " like I mean yeah but it's so telling we aren't doing this with any other 'group' isn't it...I'm lightly drunk so take me with a grain of salt but it feels very intentional and designed to divide women from feminist thought; if we never engage w prev thinkers of the movement for fear of catching their problematic-ness than we don't access their knowledge. We reinvent the wheel over and over again instead of letting ourselves build on what has already been established.

#this is half about 'noo dont read 2nd wave texts they were ALL TERFS' & half about 'nooo dont ever reference the suffragettes they were #ALL RACIST' #like i mean yes like all 'movements' they had shitty ppl but we arent doing this with any1 else are we lol #also somehow this is related 2 'karens' and the cultural fear of aging. #theres an extremely successful inclination to separate young women from old at all costs and its so sinister. #and so discouraging how youngw wommen buy into it wholesale yk?? #anyway anyway dont rb blah blah #.txt #hot takes.txt

[vampire-himbos-of-santa-perdita]

God works hard but Mina Murray works harder.

#for historical context #this was a Big Deal for women at the time #secretarial work was extremely liberating #and gave young women a sense of power in terms of how fucking important their record keeping/archival work was #bluestockings like Mina were essentially the precursor to the suffragette movement #and one bled into the other rather nicely #in short Miss Thing is Empowering herself in the biggest (mostly) socially acceptable way she can #and it’s gonna Pay Off later #in terms of her position as an irreplaceable Character in the story #Dracula #Mina Murray #Mina Harker #daily Dracula

[awesomehistoryloverblog]

Podcast: 10 Forgotten Facts about the Women's Suffrage Movement

August 2020 marked 100 years since women in the U.S. were finally given the right to vote.  Though the Declaration of Independence in 1776 declared that all ‘men’ are created equal, the U.S. Constitution did not grant such equality to women.  For the next 144 years, U.S. women were denied the right to vote, up until the start of the Roaring Twenties in 1920.   So America had the automobile, the…

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#19th Amendment #suffrage movement #Suffragettes #Susan B Anthony #voting rights #womens suffrage

[faithandarisadventures]

Golden Lane Suffrage Demonstration During the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis Missouri History Museum St. Louis, Missouri April 26, 2022

Look at that sass! I am loving her!

#missouri #st louis #history museum #museums #womens suffrage #womens suffrage movement #womens rights #voting rights #womens history #suffragette #feminist #feminism #equal rights #human rights #historical photos #sass #our adventures

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"PRO-SUFFRAGISTS WIN IN DEBATE," Montreal Gazette. October 15, 1913. Page 5. ---- Marshalling of Facts and Figures Refutes Allegations of Antis ---- WOMEN WERE ELOQUENT ----- Mrs. Seymour Carter and Mrs. Fenwick Williams on Rival Sides, Aided by Two Mere Men ---- Shattering the argument of their opponents with an overwhelming array of facts and figures arranged in logical sequence, and the apparent incontrovertible assumption that what had worked well in other communities of similar traditions and institutions would be successful here, Mrs. Fenwick Williams and Professor J. A. Dale, of McGill University, last night secured a unanimous verdict by three judges that they had made out a case for the granting of the franchise to women.

Their task was, perhaps, the easier, with the sympathies of nine-tenths of the audience with them, but it must be said of the audience, the majority of whom were women, that their attitude was as eminently fair to the debaters on the other side. Mrs. Seymour Carpenter and Mr. Maurice Alexander had undertaken to prove the affirmative in a debate on the principle that "The enfranchisement of women is undesirable," and though they labored under all the disadvantages of building up a constructive thesis, in which the other side had simply to pick a flaw or two to bring about the collapse of the whole fabric, they made some points which the judges and the audience admitted, gave the debaters for the negative some difficulty to explain away.

The debate was staged at Victoria Hall, Westmount, and attracted an audience of between two hundred and three hundred people. Mrs. Seymour Carpenter, leader for the affirmative, assumed as her premises that the greatest requisite of the world today was peace, and that the most disastrous of all forms of strife would be a sex war, which would be an almost certain result if the sexes were to clash in political life. Woman's sphere was in the home, and her greatest task, Imposed by the Inexorable laws of nature, to rear, train and mould the character of her children. The franchise would impose upon women tasks for which they were not only constitutionally unfitted, but which would entail for them an intolerable burden. Woman's natural work must suffer if she were to be called upon to take up new tasks.

It had been stated the other day by Dr, Laberge, the civic health officer, that the high rate of infantile mortality prevailing in Montreal was due to the neglect of their children by parents. Should women then be called upon to further neglect their children? Mrs. Carpenter stated that suffrage was first introduced among the Mormons who gave the vote to their women in order to retain control of the state for the purposes of their religion, as against the influx of newcomers.

In conclusion, the affirmative leader asked why, if suffrage would really mean the emancipation of women, they should not emigrate to those states or countries in which the vote was granted them? Peasants from countries not really free, such as Russia, were constantly seeking new homes, but she had yet to find that there was any concerted movement of women from unenfrachised states to those where women had the vote.

EXPERIENCE OF ANTIPODES. Mrs. Fenwick Williams, replying for the negative, asserted that anti- suffragists always spoke only in the future tense, making with supreme confidence predictions of dire calamities to follow the enfranchisement of women that past history would not justify. Women had not been unsexed in any of the twenty-two states and nations where suffrage now obtained, and in some of these countries women had been voting for the past forty-five years. Not a man in the suffrage states could be found to come forward and advocate the repeal of the law.

Mrs. Williams had a startling array of facts on the subject of infantile mortality. The high death rate among Infants, she declared, was due to the fact that women were forbidden by law in this country to protect their children. In England and Wales, where women could not vote, the infant mortality rate was 109 per thousand. In Canada it was 125 per 1,000. In Australia, where women vote, it was 70 per 1,000, and in New Zealand as law as 60 per 1,000. The low rate in the antipodes could not be attributed to the climate, for the ellmate was the same today as thirty years ago, and the granting of the franchise to women had not changed it. Thirty years ago, before women voted, the infant death rate in New Zealand was the highest in the world, nearly 200 in the thousand. In West Australia fourteen years ago the rate was 184 per thousand, and today this had been reduced to 78. In Canada twenty years ago the death rate was 125 per thousand, and it remained at the same figure today. Mrs. Williams pleaded for the enfranchisement of all women, and the anti-suffragist could not be obliged to exercise the vote if she did not wish to do so.

Mr. Alexander took the view that suffrage would mean a revolution, and an addition to the already heavy burdens of the state. Women were physically, morally and mentally unfitted to cope with the problems of political life. and should not be asked to assume greater burdens than those nature bad already imposed upon them.

NO FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCES Professor Dale, in rebuttal, assumed that both suffragists and anti-suffragists expected too much. He could not be persuaded that there were such fundamental differences between men and women that they could not co- operate in the solution of problems affecting the common life of the country. It was not always war time; by far the greater problems of the state were those of industrial and domestic life, and women could bring as great intelligence and inherent integrity of character to bear on these as men. It was argued that women had not the training to exercise political functions. Neither had men become statesmen except in the exercise of their voting privileges. Great political geniuses today were the descendants of peasants who had fought for and obtained their freedom in the same way that the militants were fighting today, and though they were then looked upon as male-factors they were now regarded as heroes, to whom monuments were erected. Obtaining the vote had not destroyed men's functions as fathers, bread winners, and generally useful citizens, but had on the other hand improved their status and made them a more valuable asset to the state, and it seemed reasonable to assume that the vote might do the same for women.

Professor MacNaughton, Miss Carrie Derrick, and Mr. C. Gordonsmith, who were the judges, announced their verdict in favor of the negative, after which the meeting was thrown open to general, discussion by the chairman, Mr. A. R. McMaster.

#montreal #westmount #mcgill university #suffragettes #suffrage movement #women's suffrage #suffragette league #women in history #women in politics #women in revolt #quebec politics #public debate #women's vote

[katya-goncharov]

every time i think about how terfs have appropriated the colours of the suffragette movement it makes me seethe

#now no-one can use those colours for ACTUAL feminism or wear the rosettes without being associated with something awful #and it's the way that t*rfs are literally using those colours to actively take away the rights of all women who THEY don't consider #women which is so much against everything the movement stood for #and it's just gross. because the woman's rights movement in the 1920s was so important and necessary and should be remembered for #the right reasons and now a bunch of bigots have come along and are acting as though their hateful cause is as important and on the same #moral wavelength. which is just so wrong #they don't deserve to be associated in any way with the suffragettes and they don't deserve those colours!!!! #(sorry i just randomly started thinking about this and it made me irrationally angry)

[thefaeriefeatherdark]

Lair of the White Worm so far truly is the weakest of Bram Stoker's works to me.

It's got a lot of problems that are of a sort I expect from Stoker, racism, sexism, etc.

Even if it's racism is amplified far beyond that of the prior works, it also has a problem that feels unique to it.

None of the female characters are... fully developed? The exception being Lady Arabella, but I'm not sure if even she counts.

Dracula is built around women giving narration. Mina is essentially the author of Dracula, everything included within Dracula is a choice made by Mina. Mina also gives a lot of the information with large chunks being from her letters and journals, so does Lucy.

Jewel of the Seven Stars is far toned down, it's a story being told by a male character, but there's still a woman there with lots of lines, who is somewhat complicated and has a life outside of the brief time the story covers. At the same time the villain of this, who is also a woman, is a complicated character who is at the least deserving of pity if not the direct help of the people involved.

In a harsh contrast the closest thing Lair has to either Mina or Margaret is Mimi who... doesn't get a line of dialogue until fairly late in the book, and largely seems to be there for the protagonist to have a love interest.

I will note that she does do stuff. She has a psychic battle to defend her cousin Lilla, but neither of those characters are shown existing outside either the villain's visits or the heroes visits to their home. Mimi again, doesn't get dialogue until over halfway through the story.

Again, Lady Arabella is given more development but there's also a mess of stuff there that'd need to be established that I don't want to delve into without spoiling stuff.

She also lacks any of Mina or Lucy's internal life. The most we get from her is that she loves Adam Salton, and that she loves her cousin Lilla.

And it seems to get worse in each of the three novels I've read. Starting with Dracula we see a lot of well developed clear women characters, it gets worse in Jewel but we still have Margaret even if she's largely viewed from the male perspective, and in theory the villain is a complicated woman. In Lair though Mimi (while passing the sexy lamp test) is largely a plot device.

#gothic horrror #dracula #lair of the white worm #Bram Stoker #It might be Bram Stoker getting more conservative as he aged? #Or a reaction to the growth of the Suffragette movement. #It's also possible that he initially intended to expand on Mimi in a rewrite but didn't (it was publish only a year before his death). #He apparently died following a number of strokes. And might've had syphilis. #So it's entirely possible that Lair of the White Worm was more of a rough draft he knew he probably wouldn't finish so he had published?

[calltoamentor]

Expression is Revolution

When we think of revolutions, what comes to mind? Often, it is public gatherings, marches, riots, large-scale displays for a need for change. Something women in history knew. Today, let's talk about how women used individualism and unity to make change.

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#Change #Colors in the suffragette movement #growth mindset #historic #historic perspective #history #historybounding #How do I become who I&039;m supposed to be #How do I change my life #How the practical dress movement worked #Life change #personal growth #POC in historical dress #POC in history #practical dress reform #self expression #sewists #suffragettes #WIP #WIPWednesday #Work In progress #Work In progress Wednesday #working class victorian women #working class women #working class women in history

[tekra-brings-the-rain]

One of my problems with white feminism is the fact that it doesn’t focus on dismantling systems of exploitation, but instead aims to be part of those structures, creating a concept of ‘winning’ at the capitalistic power system, which is designed to oppress. For example, female CEOs are often used as an example of success, which is basing how ‘feminist’ an organization/person/society is by how well it/they perform under capitalism.

This can also work in other ways as well, such as with queer and trans representation centering those who are successful only in a way that follows the path laid out by the current system.

All liberation will only work if you leave the capitalistic framework.

This kind of feminism had its place in history (think the suffragette movement) but we need to move forwards for meaningful change.

#intersectionalfeminist #intersectional feminism #white feminism #feminism #anti capitalism #capitalism #transgender feminism #queer feminism

[ftmtftm]

Feminism has always, always had a history with Racism and White Supremacy - particularly in a way that promotes fascist leaning "Protection for Me and Mine" type "activism".

There have always been several Upper Class, White, Women at the helm of Feminist movements and it is something Poor, Working Class, Women of Color have been vocally criticizing since the First Wave.

I mean, US Americans, did you not learn about Sojourner Truth? Have you not read "Ain't I A Woman?"? It is one of the most famous early accounts of the racialized nature of gender. It perfectly highlights the way the social aspects of gender have always been barred from People of Color in a way they aren't barred from White People in a firsthand historical account.

Women's Suffrage, and subsequently the First Wave of Feminism was an actively Racially Segregated movement. White Suffragettes intentionally campaigned for themselves and themselves only because they thought that campaigning for Black, Immigrant, and Indigenous Women would undermine their own movement. They did not seek liberation for women, they sought the Systemic, Institutional Power of their White Male Peers and they got it - by intentionally leaving Women of Color behind them.

This is most evident in the fact that White Women received the right to vote in 1920, but Black Women did not receive the right to vote until 1965 with the Voting Rights Act. Almost 50 years later. That is over half a lifetime. This was also only approximately 2-3 years before Radical Feminism and the Second Wave began around 1967~1968.

If you think racial segregation and racism in the Feminist Movement ended with Black Women's suffrage and completely dissipated within the two years it took for the Second Wave to pick up it's feet, you are naïve at best and actively racist yourself at worst. The Women's Liberation Movement / Radical Feminism have always been White Woman's movements riding the coattails of the Suffragette's racism.

Look at the website for the Women's Liberation Front. WoLF is one of the original Radical Feminist organizations. It was founded in the late 60's and is one of the largest Radfem organizations to date. Now. Look at their board. Look at the photos of women they choose to include across their site. Look at the women who are speaking at their events. Beyond one or two token Black Women, it is a sea of Whiteness.

You know who is a special advisor to WoLF and the founder of the group "Standing for Women"? Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, aka Posie Parker. Kellie-Jay is the woman who popularized "Woman means adult human female" as an anti-trans slogan. Kellie-Jay is also real good buddies with - you guessed it! Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists!

WoLF also takes money from the Alliance Defending Freedom, (ADF) a Right Wing Christian Organization, and it's members have worked directly with the Heritage Foundation, a Conservative organization founded during the Reagan Presidency.

Radical Feminism as a political movement cares about the lives and held power of White Women under the guise of "Women's Liberation" in the exact same way as their foremothers, the Suffragettes. It's a foundationally White Supremacist movement. Black Feminists, Indigenous Feminists, Immigrant Feminists, and Colonized Feminists have been talking about this for over a century but it falls on White ears so why would they listen.

#original post #long post / #anti radfem #anti radical feminism #anti terf #feminism #feminist #anti racism