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Cee Dee's avatar

If you are 54 - or older - every single "historic" moment here happened during your lifetime.

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Emily Van Duyne's avatar

Definitely using this is my intro. to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality course this coming spring. Happy New Year!

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Flora M Brown's avatar

I’m old enough to remember many of the rights women didn’t have when I was growing up. When you position the products, services, etc. that took place around the same times it’s shocking.

With some of the hard-earned rights being stripped away by our present government at break-neck speed, you’ll be able to have 3 images in one drawing to show when a given right was enforced AND then taken away in 2025.

I loved your work immediately and couldn’t hit that subscribe button fast enough. I look forward to sharing your work.

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Cindi | Shards And Words's avatar

This whole place and culture needs a reboot-with fire…

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D.L. Lee | SISTERLY LOVE's avatar

A compelling list. Here’s the rub: women are not programmed to fight for themselves let alone each other. Systemic change, not sentimentality, that gets to the heart of the problem is the only way forward.

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Leon Brown, Jr.'s avatar

What!!!????

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Steve's avatar

Thanks for this.

There's a good interview on the Literary Friction podcast episode called "Pain," with Sinéad Gleeson, who talks through some of these items though in the Irish context, which feels global.

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RG she/her's avatar

Happy New Year Aubrey, you are a treasure. Thank you for your work x

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Jolie Moore's avatar

I saw an exhibit on this in Europe this summer and I was *surprised?* to see that these rights had been granted to women dozens if not a hundred years earlier in less *progressive* countries.

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Flora M Brown's avatar

I’m old enough to remember many of the rights women didn’t have when I was growing up. When you position the products, services, etc. that took place around the same times it’s shocking.

With some of the hard-earned rights being stripped away by our present government at break-neck speed, you’ll be able to have 3 images in one drawing to show when a given right was enforced AND then taken away in 2025.

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Saralyn Fosnight's avatar

Just a great summary. But also shows that women have faced tremendous discrimination—all within my lifetime!

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Simon Brooks's avatar

Good grief! Now I want to look up other countries to see when they began looking (read: casually glancing) at the patriarchy of culture. Frack.

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Deb Vitkova's avatar

👍🏼

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Madeline Perkins's avatar

ty for this!!!

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Leon Brown, Jr.'s avatar

Great post, Aubrey! Serious food for thought. And we're still in the dark ages.....

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helen jonsen's avatar

This is absolutely genius. I will share widely!

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