XistentialAngst's Blog, page 55
November 10, 2016
I am so fucking angry!
Don’t be lured into a false sense of safety. Just because Trump didn’t put 50 Mexicans to the wall yersteday before his first speech doesn’t mean he changed. Because, guess what, despite being a spineless piece of shit - that man is no clown. It was easy to depict him like one during the campaign - with his silly hair and ugly grimaces - but this man runs a financial imperium - he’s not stupid. He’ll get advisers in, he already has them in place. Why do you think his twitter was blocked? Why do you think he took his time to appear yesterday before his followers? Because people briefed him and he listened. He’s not stupid.
Do not underestimate Trump. He has neither plan nor vision - but what he lacks in those fields he makes up for with a ruthless determination for power. Power just for power’s sake. And because he has no agenda it’s much easier for him to turn his coat ever which way to stay in power. I don’t know and I don’t care what’s behind that power complex that’s drives him (perhaps he has a very small penis?) - but that is his sole motivation.
And he’ll do anything to stay in power. Don’t think this man will sit in the White House for four years, fondling his assistants and searching Canada on a world map. He’ll fraternise with any group that promises him power. With any! He has no conscience - he’s a true capitalist. He’ll take it to the max - always needing more, needing bigger, expand just for the sake of it; because he can. Not for some greater good, not for the people - just to stroke his ego (or said small penis).
But I already see people saying ‘perhaps it won’t be that bad’ - ‘he surely won’t do all the things he said during his campaign’ - ‘that was just rhetoric’.
No, it wasn’t. As I said above, this man has neither vision nor conscience. There’s no moral framework that will stop him now. Do you really think those weak, gutless people that allowed him into power will now stand up against him as he presents himself as the glorious winner? They’ve won both houses, for god’s sake!
So now Trump will start to cater to the whims of the people who supported him. He’ll give easy answers to complex questions. Of course, he won’t be able to do everything he promised - as some of the things were quite contradictory - but guess what? Instead of admitting that some promises are just impossible to fulfil and therefore be debunked in the eyes of his admirers, he’ll blame someone else for his failure: the liberals, the establishment, the foreigners, the Muslims, the feminists… whichever marginaliesed group just fits his bill. That’s how demagogues work. It’s all been done before.
But you know what makes me especially angry? That I don’t see many people calling Trump out. I see people congratulating him - some perhaps a bit lukewarm, but nonetheless. I see people gently reminding him of his duties - but they accept him as the new president and just hope that it won’t get THAT bad. Over here, for example, there’s no mention of what Pence stands for - instead, he’s depicted as the force of reason on Trump’s team! Can you imagine?
I know - I, too, want to believe Trump when he says that he wants to be the president for all Americans. But I also know that you can say almost anything you want - it doesn’t really matter, it doesn’t have to have consequences. He’ll say he’s the president of all Americans and will still repeal civil rights, women’s rights, cut benefits, deport people. There’s a difference between deeds and words. He knows that. He knows the media. He’ll distract us with some soft words, his trophy wife and perhaps some pics of him petting small animals. There are lovely pics of Adolf Hitler petting a baby deer…
And we’ll lap it up. We’ll allow ourselves to be distracted from all the evil things he’ll do or set into motion. Because we are not used to get really angry anymore. How many posts I’ve seen since yesterday to calm me down, offer soothing music or cat’s videos? But I don’t want to calm down. I am angry! So angry that this world has come to this. Look where all the chill has got us! Look where it got Hillary, always being patient, always being reasonable, always being measured? The angry white man is in the White House now - while her life and all she ever worked for lies in shambles. But does she rant? No. That could come over unreasonable, embarrassing perhaps. You know what? Fuck this attitude. Fuck this attitude that women always have to be reasonable, controlled, ballanced.
You might say: but we shouldn’t lower ourselves onto this level of (male?) behaviour. At least we have our dignity. We know that we are better. Well, congrats, but us feeling morally superior won’t help any illegal immigrant being deported, or any disabled person getting their benefit reduced, or any lgbtq person being attacked in the street. Sometimes we have to get your hands dirty, we have to climb down from our moral highground and shout and rant and fight!
Don’t hate. Hate destroys you. But there’s a difference between hate and anger. Anger can kick your ass and make you fight. So, get angry! Don’t distract yourself from your anger, don’t try to channel or swallow it. Let it out!
Get out and look around you. Trump is president. He’ll be president tomorrow and the day after and the day after. For four years! And he’ll deport people, disenfranchise people, cut the benefits of the weak and vulnerable, repeal civil rights. And no amount of calming music or cat videos will change that.
Do you really think women would have gained the vote if they hadn’t smashed windows? Stonewall wasn’t a retreat to teach mindfullness - it was a fucking riot!
Yesterday I couldn’t blog about Sherlock. I was in shock, I was numb, I was in despair. Then I saw posts saying ‘at least we have those two’. And that felt somehow trivial to me. You might argue it takes the edge of your negative feelings - but that is dangerous imo because it calms you down when you should get angry! There are things we have to get angry about! We fight each other some days over top- or bottom!lock - but now we should stay calm? Schouldn’t we instead take the energy we use to argue about who takes it up the arse to change the world we are currently living in?
You might say shipping Johnlock does that because it’s about representation - but do you really think that two guys snogging on a tv show will change a thing? Do you think this will stop Trump and his allies to implement conversion therapy? To repeal lgbtq rights? Will it stop people spitting on gay couples in the streets?
It won’t change a fucking thing! We should look around us and acknowledge that currently we are all sitting in a pile of shit! We have to stop sugarcoating our reality. This is our life now. We have to face it - and then fight it.
I have lived in that bubble for too long. I thought with my intelligent real life friends and my smart, liberal online community that everything would be fine, that people won’t be so stupid. Ha! Look who’s talking. I understand the need for distraction so well. I have an exhausting full time job, a mentally ill child, I carry some baggage myself (my father killed himself when I was a teenager, for example, I cut myself, did hard drugs, toyed with anorexia) - but in times like these that’s no excuse to not get angry, to not fight, to not stand up against it when the world goes dark. Real life triggers! Don’t close your eyes and pretend it’s not happening.
I don’t know what I will do - but I won’t swallow my anger. I’ll argue. I’ll fight people who come out as pro-Trump (or pro-AfD in my country). I’ll smile at the woman in the hijab opposite me. I’ll give some money to the beggar on the corner. Small things - but I’ll take my anger to fuel these actions, to make me bold and brave.
I’m just not sure I’ll be able to write about camera angles or intertextuality, narrative arcs or the ethereal beauty of Sherlock’s eyes just right now. Because I feel that there are more important things going on right now that need my attention.
I just had to let this out.
Dark thoughts! Good thoughts! Necessary thoughts! @isitandwonder
I can relate to everything you just said @isitandwonder! I too am focused on what he’ll ACTUALLY DO. Last night watching 5 hours of MSNBC, the only pundit who focused on that with some gravity was Rachel Maddow.
But she did make me feel a bit better about things too. Because many bills still have to get enough of a majority to win that they would take a good number of Dems voting for them, and that is not going to happen if the bills are blatantly racist or harmful. We have Bernie and Elizabeth Warren in there. The Dems will fight Trump on anything like that. Yes, he can still do a lot, but not everything. Also, currently there’s only 1 supreme court seat open, and the old guy who’d had it was Scalia. He was as conservative as they come. Yet gay marriage was still approved with that court. I just hope the liberals on the court hang in there through this term.
And we have protest.
We have the ACLU.
We have the press. If Trump thinks he can really pass measures to limit the press, he’s mistaken. Now that Trump has actually been elected, which way too many libs didn’t think was possible, we are seeing, and we will see, real anger, real fight against any measures he tries to put forth to block human rights. And most Republicans like Mitch McConnell realize if they overreach and go too far, they’ll be out in 4 years. Because Hillary already won the popular vote this time – and that’s with 46% or so of the population not bothering to vote. People WILL TURN OUT next time against Trump.
So. Yes. I do believe Trump meant what he said in his campaign. He’s unpredicatable and dangerous. I expect him to do outrageous things nearly every single day. He will pass measures which will hurt the environment and piss off our allies at every turn. He’ll try to overturn Roe vs Wade and gay marriage and limit immigration. But that doesn’t mean he will be able to. There are checks and balances in the system which will limit him.
I’ve been despairing and grieving. But I hope this motivates people to wake up and fight. Ultimately, Trump wants adulation. He’s been getting along fine in, and feeding, hard core white supporters in a bubble. But now he has to deal with ALL Americans, whether he wants to or not. We’ll see how that plays out.
Thank you @xistentialangst for spreading some hope. I’m not from the US so I don’t know all the details of the proceedings. But this all assumes that Trump will play by established democratic rules. Only, as he’s never tiring of mentioning, he’s not part of the political establishment, he comes from the outside. His followers voted for him because he didn’t play be the established rules to campaign for office. Why should he abide to rules and traditions when dealing with the congress now? Couldn’t he enforce legislation via executive orders?
And, as I said above, he could even turn being prevented from implementing his propositions into his favour, smearing his perceived opponents until they don’t dare to resist anymore. He employed intimidation, lies, bullying before - why do you think he’ll stop now that these tactics gained him a victory? This man has no respect - neither for people nor for institutions.
As half of the population didn’t vote at all - I doubt that many would care. Nearly 50% of the US population couldn’t be arsed to vote even in such an important election. If they didn’t turn out then - do you really think they’ll give a fuck if some minorities are mistreated? They didn’t care enough for them to vote at least for someone - even third party. They didn’t care enough to get registered and show up at the ballots to make one simple cross. I doubt they would muster the energy to stand up against Trump if he bends some rules when in office.
Trump is a demagogue. He’s not a politician. He wasn’t socialised within the established political classes. He has no ties to the Republican Party. He never held any office. That’s his brand core. Don’t assume he’ll play by the rules. I don’t want to shatter hope - I just want to make people aware that things have changed profoundly with his election and that nothing should be taken for granted at the moment. Stay vigilant!
I’m not saying he’ll play by the rules because he wants to. He could give a flying fuck for any of that. But there are legal checks and balances he can’t override anymore than he could just say “I’m president” and land in the White House. He had to win by the legal process.
Presidential executive order can be used for some things but not for many things, like starting a war and changing the constitution or repealing existing legislature. Many things require 2/3rds of congress.
Honestly, I’m not incredibly upon all the ins and outs either, but I suspect we soon will be because we’ll see the Dems fighting him on shit. Yes, he’s a demagogue. But he can’t simply do whatever he likes. Yes, he’s a bully and he will seek to intimidate those who oppose him, but he will find strong opposition that will stand up to that.
It’s certainly not a rosy picture and, as I said, he’ll be able to get a lot of terrible shit done. But he’s not emperor. He can’t do whatever he likes.
humorpresident:
They are wearing different ties in these...
They are wearing different ties in these pictures which means that on at least two occasions Obama and Joe Biden have run around the whitehouse waving pride flags, and that makes me really happy
I am so fucking angry!
Don’t be lured into a false sense of safety. Just because Trump didn’t put 50 Mexicans to the wall yersteday before his first speech doesn’t mean he changed. Because, guess what, despite being a spineless piece of shit - that man is no clown. It was easy to depict him like one during the campaign - with his silly hair and ugly grimaces - but this man runs a financial imperium - he’s not stupid. He’ll get advisers in, he already has them in place. Why do you think his twitter was blocked? Why do you think he took his time to appear yesterday before his followers? Because people briefed him and he listened. He’s not stupid.
Do not underestimate Trump. He has neither plan nor vision - but what he lacks in those fields he makes up for with a ruthless determination for power. Power just for power’s sake. And because he has no agenda it’s much easier for him to turn his coat ever which way to stay in power. I don’t know and I don’t care what’s behind that power complex that’s drives him (perhaps he has a very small penis?) - but that is his sole motivation.
And he’ll do anything to stay in power. Don’t think this man will sit in the White House for four years, fondling his assistants and searching Canada on a world map. He’ll fraternise with any group that promises him power. With any! He has no conscience - he’s a true capitalist. He’ll take it to the max - always needing more, needing bigger, expand just for the sake of it; because he can. Not for some greater good, not for the people - just to stroke his ego (or said small penis).
But I already see people saying ‘perhaps it won’t be that bad’ - ‘he surely won’t do all the things he said during his campaign’ - ‘that was just rhetoric’.
No, it wasn’t. As I said above, this man has neither vision nor conscience. There’s no moral framework that will stop him now. Do you really think those weak, gutless people that allowed him into power will now stand up against him as he presents himself as the glorious winner? They’ve won both houses, for god’s sake!
So now Trump will start to cater to the whims of the people who supported him. He’ll give easy answers to complex questions. Of course, he won’t be able to do everything he promised - as some of the things were quite contradictory - but guess what? Instead of admitting that some promises are just impossible to fulfil and therefore be debunked in the eyes of his admirers, he’ll blame someone else for his failure: the liberals, the establishment, the foreigners, the Muslims, the feminists… whichever marginaliesed group just fits his bill. That’s how demagogues work. It’s all been done before.
But you know what makes me especially angry? That I don’t see many people calling Trump out. I see people congratulating him - some perhaps a bit lukewarm, but nonetheless. I see people gently reminding him of his duties - but they accept him as the new president and just hope that it won’t get THAT bad. Over here, for example, there’s no mention of what Pence stands for - instead, he’s depicted as the force of reason on Trump’s team! Can you imagine?
I know - I, too, want to believe Trump when he says that he wants to be the president for all Americans. But I also know that you can say almost anything you want - it doesn’t really matter, it doesn’t have to have consequences. He’ll say he’s the president of all Americans and will still repeal civil rights, women’s rights, cut benefits, deport people. There’s a difference between deeds and words. He knows that. He knows the media. He’ll distract us with some soft words, his trophy wife and perhaps some pics of him petting small animals. There are lovely pics of Adolf Hitler petting a baby deer…
And we’ll lap it up. We’ll allow ourselves to be distracted from all the evil things he’ll do or set into motion. Because we are not used to get really angry anymore. How many posts I’ve seen since yesterday to calm me down, offer soothing music or cat’s videos? But I don’t want to calm down. I am angry! So angry that this world has come to this. Look where all the chill has got us! Look where it got Hillary, always being patient, always being reasonable, always being measured? The angry white man is in the White House now - while her life and all she ever worked for lies in shambles. But does she rant? No. That could come over unreasonable, embarrassing perhaps. You know what? Fuck this attitude. Fuck this attitude that women always have to be reasonable, controlled, ballanced.
You might say: but we shouldn’t lower ourselves onto this level of (male?) behaviour. At least we have our dignity. We know that we are better. Well, congrats, but us feeling morally superior won’t help any illegal immigrant being deported, or any disabled person getting their benefit reduced, or any lgbtq person being attacked in the street. Sometimes we have to get your hands dirty, we have to climb down from our moral highground and shout and rant and fight!
Don’t hate. Hate destroys you. But there’s a difference between hate and anger. Anger can kick your ass and make you fight. So, get angry! Don’t distract yourself from your anger, don’t try to channel or swallow it. Let it out!
Get out and look around you. Trump is president. He’ll be president tomorrow and the day after and the day after. For four years! And he’ll deport people, disenfranchise people, cut the benefits of the weak and vulnerable, repeal civil rights. And no amount of calming music or cat videos will change that.
Do you really think women would have gained the vote if they hadn’t smashed windows? Stonewall wasn’t a retreat to teach mindfullness - it was a fucking riot!
Yesterday I couldn’t blog about Sherlock. I was in shock, I was numb, I was in despair. Then I saw posts saying ‘at least we have those two’. And that felt somehow trivial to me. You might argue it takes the edge of your negative feelings - but that is dangerous imo because it calms you down when you should get angry! There are things we have to get angry about! We fight each other some days over top- or bottom!lock - but now we should stay calm? Schouldn’t we instead take the energy we use to argue about who takes it up the arse to change the world we are currently living in?
You might say shipping Johnlock does that because it’s about representation - but do you really think that two guys snogging on a tv show will change a thing? Do you think this will stop Trump and his allies to implement conversion therapy? To repeal lgbtq rights? Will it stop people spitting on gay couples in the streets?
It won’t change a fucking thing! We should look around us and acknowledge that currently we are all sitting in a pile of shit! We have to stop sugarcoating our reality. This is our life now. We have to face it - and then fight it.
I have lived in that bubble for too long. I thought with my intelligent real life friends and my smart, liberal online community that everything would be fine, that people won’t be so stupid. Ha! Look who’s talking. I understand the need for distraction so well. I have an exhausting full time job, a mentally ill child, I carry some baggage myself (my father killed himself when I was a teenager, for example, I cut myself, did hard drugs, toyed with anorexia) - but in times like these that’s no excuse to not get angry, to not fight, to not stand up against it when the world goes dark. Real life triggers! Don’t close your eyes and pretend it’s not happening.
I don’t know what I will do - but I won’t swallow my anger. I’ll argue. I’ll fight people who come out as pro-Trump (or pro-AfD in my country). I’ll smile at the woman in the hijab opposite me. I’ll give some money to the beggar on the corner. Small things - but I’ll take my anger to fuel these actions, to make me bold and brave.
I’m just not sure I’ll be able to write about camera angles or intertextuality, narrative arcs or the ethereal beauty of Sherlock’s eyes just right now. Because I feel that there are more important things going on right now that need my attention.
I just had to let this out.
Dark thoughts! Good thoughts! Necessary thoughts! @isitandwonder
I can relate to everything you just said @isitandwonder! I too am focused on what he’ll ACTUALLY DO. Last night watching 5 hours of MSNBC, the only pundit who focused on that with some gravity was Rachel Maddow.
But she did make me feel a bit better about things too. Because many bills still have to get enough of a majority to win that they would take a good number of Dems voting for them, and that is not going to happen if the bills are blatantly racist or harmful. We have Bernie and Elizabeth Warren in there. The Dems will fight Trump on anything like that. Yes, he can still do a lot, but not everything. Also, currently there’s only 1 supreme court seat open, and the old guy who’d had it was Scalia. He was as conservative as they come. Yet gay marriage was still approved with that court. I just hope the liberals on the court hang in there through this term.
And we have protest.
We have the ACLU.
We have the press. If Trump thinks he can really pass measures to limit the press, he’s mistaken. Now that Trump has actually been elected, which way too many libs didn’t think was possible, we are seeing, and we will see, real anger, real fight against any measures he tries to put forth to block human rights. And most Republicans like Mitch McConnell realize if they overreach and go too far, they’ll be out in 4 years. Because Hillary already won the popular vote this time – and that’s with 46% or so of the population not bothering to vote. People WILL TURN OUT next time against Trump.
So. Yes. I do believe Trump meant what he said in his campaign. He’s unpredicatable and dangerous. I expect him to do outrageous things nearly every single day. He will pass measures which will hurt the environment and piss off our allies at every turn. He’ll try to overturn Roe vs Wade and gay marriage and limit immigration. But that doesn’t mean he will be able to. There are checks and balances in the system which will limit him.
I’ve been despairing and grieving. But I hope this motivates people to wake up and fight. Ultimately, Trump wants adulation. He’s been getting along fine in, and feeding, hard core white supporters in a bubble. But now he has to deal with ALL Americans, whether he wants to or not. We’ll see how that plays out.
November 8, 2016
For everyone planning to kill themselves in the event of a Trump victory:
Don’t.
We need you. The world needs you. We’ve been through this before, in one way or another, and we have prevailed. Who benefits from your death? Only those who want you silenced.
There will be blue skies ahead. There will be triumphs. This is not the end of the world.
Do not go gentle - we are here today because of the stubborn refusal of our predecessors to go away. There are oases even in the darkest of times. You are not alone, and you have not been abandoned. There *will* be blue skies ahead, and you will live to see them.
List of Suicide Crisis supports in the USA:
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1800-273-8255
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: Online Chat
Crisis Text Line: Text START to 741-741
The Trevor Project (LBGT+):
1-866-488-7386
Trans Lifeline:
(877) 565-8860If you need support outside the USA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_crisis_lines
Florida: Trump 49%, Clinton 48%, Gary Johnson 2%.How many times did people say if you vote 3rd...
Florida: Trump 49%, Clinton 48%, Gary Johnson 2%.
How many times did people say if you vote 3rd party, you risk the entire election?
So thanks, 3rd party voters. I hope you enjoy 4 years of Republicans in the House, Senate, PresTrump, and Republicans filling the Supreme Court. Thanks to 3rd party voters, there’s a good chance of losing abortion rights, gay marriage, free and unlimited internet, health care for the self-employed, trans rights, immigrants not being deported. etc etc etc.
mid0nz:
On election day I am 1000% not cynical about the...
On election day I am 1000% not cynical about the democratic process. I just cast my vote for the first woman president of the United States of America and I’m crying from joy. Today I remember all the women across the world who fought and still fight for suffrage. This morning I honored the American women who were jailed and institutionalized and brutalized, force-fed, humiliated in every imaginable way yet STILL THEY FOUGHT. With my paper ballot and a felt-tipped marker in hand I voted. Now I proudly sport that tiny sticker with the American flag that says simply: “I voted.” I voted.
REST IN POWER
Jane Addams (1860–1935) - social activist, president Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Nina E. Allender (1873–1957) - speaker, organizer and cartoonist
Naomi Anderson (b. 1863) - black suffragist, temperance advocate
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) - co-founder and leader National Women’s Suffrage Association, created the National American Woman’s Suffrage Association
Annie Arniel (1873–1924) - member of the Silent Sentinels, arrested eight times in direct actions
Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931) - African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and early leader in the civil rights movement
Bertha Hirsch Baruch - writer, president of the Los Angeles Suffrage Association
Alva Belmont (1853–1933) - founder of the Political Equality League that was in 1913 merged into the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage
Alice Stone Blackwell (1857–1950) - journalist, activist
Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921) - co-founder, with Lucy Stone, of the American Woman Suffrage Association
Henry Browne Blackwell (1825–1909) - founded Woman’s Journal with Lucy Stone
Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch (1856–1940) - writer (major contributor to History of Woman Suffrage), founded Women’s Political Union, daughter of pioneering activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Amelia Bloomer (1818–1894) - women’s rights and temperance advocate; her name was associated with women’s clothing reform style known as bloomers
Lucy Gwynne Branham (1892–1966) - professor, organizer, lobbyist, active in the National Women’s Party and its Silent Sentinels, daughter of suffragette Lucy Fisher Gwynne Branham
Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1872–1920) - suffrage leader, one-time vice president of the National Woman Suffrage Association, one of Kentucky’s leading Progressive reformers
Sophonisba Breckinridge (1866–1948) - activist, Progressive Era social reformer, social scientist and innovator in higher education
Gertrude Foster Brown (1867-1956) - pianist, suffragette, author of Your vote and how to use it (1918).
Olympia Brown (1835–1926) - activist, first woman to graduate from a theological school, as well as becoming the first full-time ordained minister
Emma Bugbee (1888–1981) - journalist
Lucy Burns (1879–1966) - women’s rights advocate, co-founder of the National Woman’s Party
Zina Young Williams Card (1850-1931) - American advocate for women and children; midwife
Frances Jennings Casement (1840–1928) - voting advocate, married General John S. Casement, who lobbied for voting rights for women
Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947) - president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, founder of the League of Women Voters and the International Alliance of Women, campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Tennessee Celeste Claflin (1844–1923) - one of the first women to open a Wall Street brokerage firm, advocate of legalized prostitution
Laura Clay (1849–1941) - co-founder and first president of Kentucky Equal Rights Association, leader of women’s suffrage movement, active in the Democratic Party
Jennie Collins (1828-1887), labor reformer, humanitarian, and suffragist
Ida Craft - known as the Colonel, took part in Suffrage Hikes
Minnie Fisher Cunningham (1882–1964) - first executive secretary of the League of Women Voters, member of the National American Women’s Suffrage Association
Lucile Atcherson Curtis (1894-1986) - the first woman in what became the US Foreign Service
Lucinda Lee Dalton (1847–1925) - Mormon feminist and writer
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis (1813-1876) - a founder of the New England Woman Suffrage Association; active with the National Woman Suffrage Association; co-arranged and presided at the first National Women’s Rights Convention
Rheta Childe Dorr (1868–1948) - American journalist, suffragist newspaper editor, writer, and political activist
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) - African-American social reformer, orator, writer, statesman
Anne Dallas Dudley (1876–1955) - suffrage activist; in 1920, she, along with Abby Crawford Milton and Catherine Talty Kenny, led the campaign in Tennessee to approve ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution[1][2]
Abigail Scott Duniway (1834–1915) - women’s rights advocate, editor, writer
Max Eastman (1883–1969) - writer, philosopher, poet, prominent political activist
Katherine Philips Edson (1870-1933) - social worker and feminist, worked to add women’s suffrage to the California State Constitution
Elizabeth Piper Ensley (1848-1919) - Caribbean-American woman who was the treasurer of the Colorado Non-Partisan Equal Suffrage Association
Helga Estby (1860–1942) - Norwegian immigrant, noted for her walk across the United States during 1896 to save her family farm
Janet Ayer Fairbank (1878–1951) - author and champion of progressive causes
Lillian Feickert (1877–1945) - suffragette; first woman from New Jersey to run for United States Senate[3]
Sara Bard Field (1882–1974) - active with the National Woman’s Party, and in Oregon and Nevada; crossed the US to deliver a petition with 500,000 signatures to President Wilson
Margaret Foley (1875-1957), active with the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association
Jessica Garretson Finch, president of the New York Equal Franchise Society
Clara S. Foltz (1849–1934) - lawyer, sister of US Senator Samuel M. Shortridge
Elisabeth Freeman (1876–1942) - Suffrage Hike participant
Antoinette Funk (1869-1942) - lawyer and executive secretary of the Congressional Committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association; supporter of the women’s movement in WWI
Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826–1898) - activist, freethinker, author
Edna Fischel Gellhorn (1878–1970) - reformer, co-founder of the National League of Women Voters
Sarah Grimke (1792–1873) - abolitionist, writer
Eliza Calvert Hall (pen name of Eliza Caroline “Lida” Calvert Obenchain) (1856–1935) - author, women’s rights advocate
Ida Husted Harper (1851–1931) - organizer, major writer and historian of the US suffrage movement
Florence Jaffray Harriman (1870–1967) - social reformer, organiser and diplomat
Sallie Davis Hayden (1842-1907) - one of the founders of the suffrage movement in Arizona
Josephine K. Henry (1846–1928) - Progressive Era women’s rights leader, social reformer and writer
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (1878–1951) - social reformer
Elsie Hill (1883-1970) - activist
Helena Hill (1875-1958) - activist, geologist
Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910) - prominent abolitionist, social activist and poet
Emily Howland (1827–1929) - philanthropist, educator
Josephine Brawley Hughes (1839-1926) - Established the Arizona Suffrage Association in 1891
Inez Haynes Irwin (1873–1970) - co-founder of the College Equal Suffrage League, active in National Women’s Party, wrote the parties’ history
Ada James (1876–1952) - social worker and reformer
Izetta Jewel (1883–1978) - stage actress, women’s rights activist, politician and the first woman to address a major American political party convention
Rosalie Gardiner Jones (1883–1978) - socialite, took part in Suffrage Hike, known as “General Jones”
Belle Kearney (1863–1939) - speaker and lobbyist for the National American Woman Suffrage Association; first woman elected to the Mississippi State Senate
Edna Buckman Kearns (1882–1934) - National Woman’s Party campaigner, known for her horse-drawn suffrage campaign wagon (now in the collection of New York State Museum)
Mary Morton Kehew (1859-1918) - labor/social reformer and suffragist from Boston
Helen Keller (1880–1968) - author and political activist
Abby Kelley (1811–1887) - abolitionist, radical social reformer, fundraiser, lecturer and committee organizer for the American Anti-Slavery Society
Caroline Burnham Kilgore (1838-1909) - the first woman to be admitted to the bar in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin (1883–1965) - civil rights activist, organization executive, and community practitioner
Clara Chan Lee (1886–1993) - first Chinese American to register to vote in the US, November 8, 1911[4]
Dora Lewis (1862-1928) - in 1913 became an executive member of the National Women’s Party; in 1918 became their chairwoman of finance; in 1919 became their national treasurer; in 1920 headed their ratification committee
Lena Morrow Lewis (1868–1950) - organizer in South Dakota and Oregon; enlisted the support of labor unions
Mary Livermore (1820–1905) - journalist and advocate of women’s rights
Florence Luscomb (1887–1985) - architect and prominent leader of Massachusetts suffragists
Katherine Duer Mackay (1878-1930) - founder of the Equal Franchise Society
Arabella Mansfield (1846-1911) - first female lawyer in the United States, chaired the Iowa Women’s Suffrage Convention in 1870, and worked with Susan B. Anthony
Anne Henrietta Martin (1875–1951) - Vice-chairman National Woman’s Party, arrested as a Silent Sentinel, president Nevada Equal Franchise Society, first US woman to run for Senate
Ellis Meredith (1865–1955) - journalist
Jane Hungerford Milbank (1871–1931) - author and poet
Inez Milholland (1886–1916) - key participant in the National Woman’s Party and the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913
Harriet May Mills (1857–1936) - prominent civil rights leader, played a major role in women’s rights movement
Abby Crawford Milton (1881-1991) - traveled throughout Tennessee making speeches and organizing suffrage leagues in small communities; in 1920, she, along with Anne Dallas Dudleyand Catherine Talty Kenny, led the campaign in Tennessee to approve ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution[1][2]
Virginia Minor (1824–1894) - co-founder and president of the Woman’s Suffrage Association of Missouri; unsuccessfully argued in Minor v. Happersett (1874 Supreme Court case) that the Fourteenth Amendment gave women the right to vote
Esther Hobart Morris (1814–1902) - first female Justice of the Peace in the United States
Mary Foulke Morrisson (1879-1971) - organizer of 1916 suffrage parade in Chicago at the Republican national Convention; founder of chapters of the League of Women Voters
Lucretia Mott (1793–1880) - Quaker, abolitionist; women’s rights activist; social reformer
Frances Lillian Willard “Fannie” Munds (1866-1948) - leader of the suffrage movement in Arizona and member of the Arizona Senate
Sarah Massey Overton (1850-1914) - women’s rights activist and black rights activist
Maud Wood Park (1871–1955) - founder of the College Equal Suffrage League, co-founder of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government (BESAGG); worked for passage of the 19th Amendment
Alice Paul (1885–1977) - leader, main strategist, and inspiration for the 1910s Women’s Voting Rights Movement for the 19th Amendment; founder of the National Women’s Party; initiator of the Silent Sentinels and Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913; author of the Equal Rights Amendment
Juno Frankie Pierce, also known as Frankie Pierce or J. Frankie Pierce (1864-1954) - African-American suffragist[5][6][7][8]
Helen Pitts (1838–1903) - active in women’s rights movement and co-edited The Alpha
Anita Pollitzer (1894–1975) - photographer, served as National Chairman in the National Woman’s Party
Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887–1973) - philanthropist, heiress to the Post Cereal company fortune
Florence Kenyon Hayden Rector (1882–1973) - first licensed female architect in the state of Ohio and the only female architect practicing in central Ohio between 1900 and 1930
Florida Ruffin Ridley (1861–1943) - African-American civil rights activist, suffragist, teacher, writer, and editor from Boston
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842–1924) - African-American publisher, journalist, civil rights leader, suffragist, and editor
Ruth Logan Roberts (1891-1968) - suffragist, activist, YWCA leader, and host of a salon in Harlem
Margaret Sanger (1879–1966) - birth control activist, sex educator, nurse, established Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Julia Sears (1840–1929) - pioneering academic and first woman in the US to head a public college, now Minnesota State University
May Wright Sewall (1844-1920) - chairperson of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association’s executive committee from 1882 to 1890
Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919) - president of National Women’s Suffrage Association from 1904 to 1915
Mary Shaw (1854–1929) - early feminist, playwright and actress
Pauline Agassiz Shaw (1841-1917) - co-founder and first president of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government
May Gorslin Preston Slosson (1858–1943) - educator and first woman to obtain a doctoral degree in Philosophy in the United States
The Smiths of Glastonbury, a family of 6 women in Connectictut who were active in championing suffrage, property rights, and education for women
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) - initiator of the Seneca Falls Convention, author of the Declaration of Sentiments, co-founder National Women’s Suffrage Association, major pioneer of women’s rights in America
Helen Ekin Starrett (1840–1920) - Illinois Woman’s Press Association; author, educator, editor, business owner, early suffragist, and one of the two delegates from the 1869 National Convention to attend the Victory Convention in 1920
Doris Stevens (1892–1963) organizer for National American Women Suffrage Association and the National Woman’s Party, prominent Silent Sentinels participant, author of Jailed for Freedom
Lucy Stone (1818–1893) - prominent orator, abolitionist, and a vocal advocate and organizer promoting rights for women
Helen Taft (1891–1987) - daughter of President William Howard Taft; traveled the nation giving pro-suffrage speeches
Lydia Taft (1712–1778) - first woman known to legally vote in colonial America
M. Carey Thomas (1857–1935) - educator, linguist, and second President of Bryn Mawr College
Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson (1872-1959) - American author
Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961) - Buffalo and New York activist, later journalist and radio broadcaster
Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883) - abolitionist, women’s rights activist, speaker, gave women’s rights speech “Ain’t I a Woman?”
Harriet Tubman (1822–1913) - African-American abolitionist, humanitarian and Union spy during the American Civil War
Mina Van Winkle (1875–1932) - crusading social worker, groundbreaking police lieutenant and national leader in the protection of girls and other women during the law enforcement and judicial process
Mabel Vernon (1883–1975) - principal member of the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage, major organizer for the Silent Sentinels
Sarah E. Wall (1825–1907) - organizer of an anti-tax protest that defended a woman’s right not to pay taxation without representation
Rosa Welt-Straus (1856–1938) - feminist, born in Austria, first Austrian woman to earn a medical degree, first female eye doctor in Europe
Ruza Wenclawska (died 1977) - factory inspector and trade union organizer
Frances Willard (1839–1898) - leader of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and International Council of Women, lecturer, writer
Victoria Woodhull (1838–1927) - leader of woman’s suffrage movement, first female candidate for President of the United States, first woman to start a weekly newspaper, activist for women’s rights and labor reforms, advocate of free love
Emmeline B. Wells (1828–1921) - American journalist, editor, poet, women’s rights advocate, and diaristAnd countless others. THANK YOU!
Incredible video of voters going to Susan B Anthony’s grave in homage. Made me so proud!...
Incredible video of voters going to Susan B Anthony’s grave in homage. Made me so proud!
https://www.facebook.com/News8WROC/videos/10155359367104386/
November 7, 2016
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If the 2016 election...
If the 2016 election were in the Wizarding World.
This is truly a thing of beauty.
Kudos to whomever made this.
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