Features suffrage wagon at the New York State Museum —spring 2024, Permanent Exhibition
IA 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!
Continue ReadingThis is another reminder to stay warm during February—watch past programs at Suffrage Wagon Cafe, try recipes from Suffrage Wagon Cooking School, read books from your pile of MUST READS, and keep the voting rights and peace efforts alive and moving forward! Here I am—keeping an eye on what’s happening and how ALL OF US…
Continue ReadingWe’ve been persistent and insistent that women be recognized for their volunteer efforts over the years. And Marguerite Kearns has done the same. She not only published a book about the branch of the family honoring women’s rights, but she also has been working to expand the ERA constituency with important allies. Watch this video—…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns This image is from The New York Times: February 11, 2023. The discussion below is linked to educational efforts to comment and spread the word. Caption: A man watched volunteers search for people in the old quarter of Antakya in Hatay Province, Turkey. Emily Garthwaite for The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/11/opinion/turkey-earthquake-orhan-pamuk.html The…
Continue ReadingHere’s an email from Sylvia Ramos about how we could be doing something important while waiting from one action to another. A “whistleblower” draws a line and says “I’ve had it, and I am not going to tolerate any more lies, coverups, and abuse.” Being a whistleblower may or may not involve becoming a public…
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