congressarchives:
Petition from Minnie Fisher Cunningham of the Texas Woman Suffrage Association for passage of the “Susan B. Anthony Amendment” sent to Congress on May 2, 1916
The amendment passed Congress on June 4, 1919. It was ratified as the 19th Amendment on August 18, 1920.
Petition from Texas Woman Suffrage Association, 5/2/1916, Records of the U.S. House of Representatives (ARC 306659)
Amazing piece of #Texas #Women’s History
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cristinalucila:
What do you do when you’re detained by powerful officials, everything you say is presumed deceptive, arbitrary “evidence” is held against you, and you’re treated like a moral deviant? And what if its 2013, you’re a woman, and the “evidence” is that you possess condoms? It happened three times in two weeks — being detained by U.S. border officials on my way to or through the States. “I could have you charged with being a working girl! The proof is right here!” All I could do is shake my head. This can’t be real.
TRIGGER WARNING: sexism, sexual violence, slut-shaming, etc
(Source: seriouslyamerica)
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npr:
(via She Works: The Only Woman in the Room : NPR)
NPR’s Nina Totenberg on being the only woman in the room:
“My first piece of advice is get another woman in the room. And my second is demand respect. You should get it. You don’t have to be a man to get it. You don’t have to be a flirt to get it. Just be yourself and if it’s not working for some reason, just say so.”
Photo Courtesy of Nina Totenberg
When have you been the only woman in the room? — Heidi
I just thought, “hmm… that hardly - oh, wait… more times than I can recount…” That is the life of an IT politico girl.
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“men still have trouble recognizing that a woman can be complex, can have ambition, good looks, sexuality, erudition, and common sense. a woman can have all those facets, and yet men, in literature and in drama, seem to need to simplify women, to polarize us as either the whore or the angel. that sensibility is prevalent, even to this day.”
natalie dormer. (via dowries)
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