beaumontbros:So I looked this up and it’s honestly really cool. Female suffrage protesters...

beaumontbros:

So I looked this up and it’s honestly really cool. Female suffrage protesters were targeted by A LOT of police brutality so they would train like 30 bodyguards in “suffrajitsu” to protect hunger-strikers from being reincarnated. It was started by a woman named Edith Garrud, who also created an athletics club within WFM. It offered women protection but also an alibi when questioned by the police, and the gymnasium housed suffragists that were in trouble for busting in windows and stuff