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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 19d

"If the lady you mention will only sleep all she wants, and make it a rule to rest when she is tired, she will never get ill."

--Life advice from Suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1866. Your feminist foremothers want you to take a nap!

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Jill Sorenson @jillsorenson.bsky.social · Sep 3

I adored Some Like it Scandalous by @mayarodale.bsky.social! Best HEA I've read in ages. Great story topped off with a perfect proposal.

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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you! :-)

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NPR @npr.org · Aug 18

To save the lives of infants and small kids in lower resource countries, there are a handful of tools: anti-malarial drugs, bed nets and vaccines. A massive experiment in rural Kenya suggests another. n.pr/4fKcjw3

Researchers discover a secret weapon that saves babies' lives. And it's not medical

To save the lives of infants and small kids in lower resource countries, there are a handful of tools: anti-malarial drugs, bed nets and vaccines. A massive experiment in rural Kenya suggests another.

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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · Aug 1

US Representative: "Now ladies, what is really the legal status of marriage, so far as the condition of the wife is concerned?"

Susan B. Anthony: "One of servitude, and of the hardest kind, and just for board and clothes, too."

--House Judiciary Meeting in 1871

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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · Aug 1

Today's fast fashion factories sound a lot like Gilded Age sweatshops: "...sewing on hundreds of buttons, or ironing hundreds of collars. Depending on the complexity of the task, workers earn between one and 10 yuan per item, toiling for long hours in cramped conditions."

China’s fast-fashion capital slows down under Trump’s trade war

Guangzhou is the humming heart of the global fast fashion industry, but uncertainty over US tariffs is putting pressure on orders and profits

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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · Jul 25

"If women, on being made really free to choose, will not marry, then we must arraign men on the charge of having made the married state so irksome and distasteful to women that they prefer celibacy when they dare enjoy it."

--19th century women on the 21st century "male loneliness epidemic"

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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · Jul 12

Maybe affordable, quality childcare is our generational equivalent of the fight for women's right to vote or to legalize birth control. buff.ly/Me9O6Pn

Childcare is a hellscape for most US families. Why isn’t there a bigger push for change?

Long seen as women’s work, childcare is underpaid and considered a private matter for families – not government

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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · Jul 4

From The History of Woman's Suffrage, 1874

Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · Jul 4

"Resolved, That the members of this society do hereby pledge themselves not to aid either by their labor, time or money, the proposed celebration of the independence of the men of the nation, unless before July 4, 1876, the women of the land shall be guaranteed their political freedom."

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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · Jun 26

Ever since I first read this story of Susan B. Anthony helping an abused wife escape—breaking the law to do so—I couldn’t stop thinking about it. This is sisterhood in action.
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Susan B Anthony and the Runaway Wife

Legally wrong but morally right

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Jun 25

Incredible mom energy from Mira Nair

Reuters photo of Zohran Mamdani onstage, with his mom looking up at him lovingly and squeezing his cheek.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · Jun 19

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · Jun 17

"Why do these people submit to the cruel tyranny that our government exercises over them?" The answer is apparent—"simply because they are ignorant of their power."

--The Complete History of Women's Suffrage

Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · Jun 14

"In our hearts we feel that there is a word sweeter than mother, home, or heaven. That word is liberty."

Matilda Joslyn Gage (1829-1898)

Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · Jun 13

Imagine listing the occupations of Florence Nightingale, Millicent Fawcett and other reformers as "blank" on census records! It happened and it's how women get erased from history.

Contributions of 68 million women unrecognised in historical records | London Daily News

The legacies of 68 million women could go unrecognised in history, with census records labelling them as ‘unoccupied’. That’s according to researchers at family history website Findmypast¹, who…

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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · Jun 12

“It is not enough that we should have the vote. We need the means by which the votes are cast.”

Ranked Choice Voting Is A Women’s Issue

In 1916, Jeannette Rankin began her historic run for Congress.

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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · Jun 7

Men were afraid that this would happen if women got the vote.

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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · May 28

Women in 1855: "Women must have equal pay for equal work."

Women in 2025: "Women must have equal pay for equal work and wtf why are we still fighting for this!?"

Source: The Complete History of Women's Suffrage

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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · May 27

"In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of woman. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer."

--Lucy Stone in 1850, Suff who made it possible for modern women to get free

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · May 27

Don’t rank Cuomo!!

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · May 27

Good morning, NYC. We have some very exciting news to share.

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Sara Catterall @scatterall.bsky.social · May 27

Happy Birthday to Amelia Bloomer! She would be 207 today, and appalled at how relevant her arguments still are for the legal and social rights of women, and all genders.

Amelia Bloomer

A fascinating look at an underappreciated woman in American history whose newspaper fostered a national conversation on women’s issues.Those who recognize the name Amelia Bloomer usually do so because...

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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · May 24

Apparently, the scariest thing about emancipated and enfranchised women is that men might have to do housework and childcare. Don't promise me a good time!

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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · May 21

"Did he ever take in the idea that to the mother of the race, and to her alone, belonged the right to say when a new being should be brought into the world?"

--Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1855 on the rights of women to their own bodies. Outrageously still relevant.

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · May 21

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

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