Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
by Marguerite Kearns THE WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT WAS ABOUT PROTEST Fortunately others in previous generations started and completed my family history. This is where the interest often begins. From there, the openings move in so many directions. And that’s where the questioning takes off. The early women’s rights movement, or what was also called…
Continue ReadingBreakfast is an important rite of passage for me. I made a big serving of hummus this morning for breakfast with pita bread and hot tea. I looked over the refrigerator contents and the cans of organic chickpeas screamed at me from the kitchen shelf. Have us for breakfast…they said. I took down my blender…
Continue ReadingWe are partners with SuffrageCentennials.com that is busy and on the case to make 2023 the year that US women benefit from an equal rights amendment to the US Constitution. In 2023, US women have been working on this for 100 years. Happy spring. Everyone benefits by knowing our history. This is made clear by…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns By all accounts, I continue on a journey. When someone asked me once, “would I do this again” or am I sorry I took the route I did, I answer not with a “yes” or a “no,” but with: “What happened can’t be overturned. I am here, now, and the path taken…
Continue ReadingIA well-known feminist has been publishing blogs of interest to women. I liked her determined spirit until I heard her rant with such cliches as “Let them rot in hell” and “throw them in jail and throw away the key.” MORE HARM DOESN’T RESULT IN HEALING Advocating for more harm does not solve the problem…
Continue ReadingWe have a suffrage centennial coming up in 2023. We’re letting a special opportunity pass if we let 100 years pass without notice and an increased effort to make sure that an equal rights amendment passes next year!! For bookings and interviews, leave a message for Marguerite Kearns (855) toll free 553 3666. For bookings…
Continue ReadingHave you seen our video about our work? Take a look. We have gone in many directions. Here is an example… A Memoir by Marguerite Kearns—”An Unfinished Revolution” on Vimeo. An Unfinished Revolution is more than a memoir. It’s a well-researched project involving a mother-daughter collaboration, a family reunion, and how the early struggles for…
Continue ReadingWomen’s History Month in March features a Saturday, March 18, 2023 presentation by Marguerite Kearns related to her women’s history book, “An Unfinished Revolution: Edna Kearns and the Struggle for Women’s Rights,” published June 2021 by SUNY Press (State University of New York). The women’s history month. presentation is set for 10 a.m., at Holy…
Continue ReadingThis is a reminder to start planning now. It seems early, but before you’re aware of it, Women’s History Month in March will be in our faces!
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