- 1. What Women’s History Month Means To Me As A Young Black Woman in America... And It's Not What You Thin
- (Feminism)
- ... as if it’s impossible to be both. Black people didn’t get the right to vote until the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the 15th Amendment caused a huge divide between suffragists and abolitionists. The ...
- Created on 30 March 2022
- 2. Lysol's Horrifying History Of Marketing Cleaning Products As Birth Contro
- (Living)
- ... books, jailed suffragists, and elected himself the head of the morality police when he founded the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice: a group responsible for imprisoning people who wrote anything ...
- Created on 25 March 2021
- 3. The 100th Anniversary of (Some) Women's Suffrage: Did YOUR state support women's right to vote? Check this state-by-state history of the fight for suffrage in Ameri
- (Feminism)
- ... marching with banners demanding the “Right of Suffrage to Every American Citizen.” However, Maine suffragists faced repeated losses thanks to the all-male legislature, forcing many women to turn their ...
- Created on 18 August 2020
- 4. A Brief History Of Flappers, Some Of The Original Rule-Breakers
- (Style)
- ... Suffragists were changing the conversation and challenging social mores, as seen in this brutally frank 1918 pamphlet advising women on marriage. Newspapers rushed to explain this new phenomenon to ...
- Created on 24 July 2019
- 5. How Millicent Fawcett Fought For Women's Rights To Vot
- (Feminism)
- ... sexual rights, working rights, and so much more. In 1897, she helped form the NUWSS (The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, also known as the suffragists), bringing the majority of the country’s ...
- Created on 26 April 2019
- 6. Stacey Abrams Offered Us The Hope We Needed Last Night
- (Feminism)
- Last night’s State of the Union was full of some delightful positives (the Democratic women of the House of Representatives all wore white, a nod to the suffragists) and negatives (over an hour of Trump ...
- Created on 06 February 2019
- 7. Mother Jones Was A Hell-Raising Trailblazer In The Fight For Workers' Rights
- (Feminism)
- ... “I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country,” she told a gathering of suffragists in 1914. “You don’t need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!” Despite their ...
- Created on 30 January 2019
- 8. "Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight For Sex Workers' Rights" Is A Must-Read For All Feminist
- (Books)
- ... Women’s March” in San Francisco. In 1974, Ethiopian sex workers joined the Confederation of Ethiopian Labor Unions and engaged in strike action that ultimately helped to bring down the government. Suffragists ...
- Created on 14 November 2018
- 9. The Resistance Revival Chorus Is Bringing Back Protest Music For The Trump Era
- (Music)
- ... marchers wore white as they demanded an end to the 52-year civil war. And the suffragists wore white when demanding their right to vote,” she says. “I also read about a silent protest in New York in 1917, ...
- Created on 20 September 2018
- 10. Gloria Steinem And Kathleen Hanna On Feminism, Riot Grrrl, And The Sexual Revolution: From The BUST Archives
- (Feminism)
- ... listening to you, because, though I knew less about the suffragists than you knew about the Second Wave, I did the same thing of positioning myself in opposition to them, because I had heard that they ...
- Created on 15 August 2018
- 11. How Women Are Using Color To Protest In 2018
- (Feminism)
- ... pantsuits at pivotal moments during the 2016 election (and to Donald Trump's inauguration) to reference suffragists' use of white in protest. And during the 1960s, protestors of the Vietnam War wore black ...
- Created on 22 January 2018
- 12. In The Early 1900s, Ladies Stabbed Harassers With Hatpins
- (Style)
- ... Some men didn’t know what to make of women who weren’t sex workers traveling alone. Men known as “mashers” subjected them to catcalls, leers, and touches. Women fought them off with hatpins, while suffragists ...
- Created on 19 January 2018
- 13. "Beyond Suffrage": The Journey of Women Activists from Suffrage To The Resistanc
- (Feminism)
- ... women won the right to vote. Rather, it is about what women choose to do with the vote. “Suffragists didn’t just stop being activists,” Seidman said. The exhibit explores what connects all these eras and ...
- Created on 18 October 2017
- 14. Elizabeth Warren’s Fight Is Our Fight
- (Feminism)
- ... the policy makers of Washington, DC. This is Warren’s usual schtick, but in person, standing on a stage built by NYC suffragists, it was even more of a call to arms. She calls the current situation “a ...
- Created on 19 June 2017
- 15. Spend Women's Day 2017 Like A Suffragette In Lily Dale, NY
- (Feminism)
- ... Day celebration to Lily Dale in 1887, after organizing a Women's Suffrage Club at Cassadaga. Skidmore's efforts attracted the attention of leading suffragists like Susan B. Anthony, who spoke to a Lily Dal ...
- Created on 06 May 2017
- 16. How Racism Split The Suffrage Movement
- (Feminism)
- "Just like the men!" Cartoon. New-York Tribune, March 1, 1913 When African-American women demanded the right to vote, they faced resistance from racists, from sexists, and even from other suffragists ...
- Created on 20 February 2017
- 17. 7 Inauguration Looks You Can Still Find in Washington TODAY
- (Style)
- ... store. 5. Or maybe you wear white, as many did on Election Day to honor the legacy of the suffragists. You can't wear white after Labor Day, but at this rate who knows if we'll ever have Labor Day again! ...
- Created on 10 January 2017
- 18. This NYC Girl Scout Troop Is Making Our Feminist Dreams Come True
- (Feminism)
- A group of young feminists took to the streets for a big cause last week chanting, "Where are the women?" as they marched down Central Park West, sporting sunflower crowns reminiscent of the women's ...
- Created on 04 October 2016
- 19. The Private Prison Industry Is Still Alive And Well, And That Needs To Change
- (General)
- ... corporations to profit off of the detention of human beings. Photo from Flickr More from BUST On The Anniversary Of The Nineteenth Amendment, We're Looking Back At Early Suffragists Mikhail Baryshnikov, ...
- Created on 19 August 2016
- 20. Suffragette City: Meet the Young Women Behind the Suffrage Movement in the U.S.
- (Feminism)
- ... did not lie with the suffragists. At first the men merely heckled the marchers, shouting, “Where are your skirts?” and calling the men who marched beside them “Henpecko!” Then it became uglier, as the ...
- Created on 17 August 2016
