Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
Women’s Equality Day in August on the 26th day celebrates the long struggle of women to win the right to vote. This was long-overdue. Yes, it was achieved within a top-down social and economic system. Yes, it wasn’t perfect. It was achieved within an existing social and economic system that many perceived was in existence…
Continue ReadingFebruary is a terrific month of the Lunar New Year, of building on the past, affirming our sisters and brothers and ancestors. The top image is a front cover of a publication produced by the Women’s History Alliance in 2021. The Chinese New Year has been celebrated for ages. So has Valentine’s Day when the…
Continue ReadingWhat are you doing today? It’s a time for love and remembering! The Suffrage Wagon News Channel has been publishing since 2009. We’re off to the Susan B. Anthony Museum & House in Rochester, New York! on Vimeo.
Continue ReadingSuffrage Wagon News Channel has been publishing since 2009. It is a document of personal and historical development of one person and many others toward a goal of including women’s history as part of American history. Unless we can move from a top-down social and economic system to a horizontal social and economic system, we…
Continue ReadingAnother column by Marguerite Kearns: LOOKING BACK OVER THE SUFFRAGE RESEARCH AND ADVOCACY When I am in the future, I’ congratulating myself for my future outcome where my body has been a priority in my goals. Maybe it has something to do with my priorities…drinking enough liquids to not be dehydrated. Consistently I have been…
Continue ReadingColumn by Marguerite Kearns. I’m no double exposure, sending messages about myself when I am thinking about dragons celebrated this year. It’s a Lunar new year when I’m thinking about this upcoming new year ahead. About how I haven’t been paying attention, following new directions, thinking that now that I have been learning about the…
Continue ReadingI remember not long ago when strolling the halls in the state capitol of New York State, I was acutely aware that all of the state’s governors had been men. Then Kathy Hochul came along. At first, she slipped into public service after the prior governor resigned his position. Then the lieutenant governor Hochul stepped…
Continue ReadingIf we’re counting on state bureaucracies, things always take longer than we think. The process of putting the “Spirit of 1776” suffrage campaign wagon on exhibition always takes longer than anticipated.And the same is true of an equal rights amendment to the US Constitution. There is a 300+ coalition of organizations working on it now….
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns Allegra Huston tells me on the telephone that she is delighted that I have called her in Taos. I’m here in Santa Fe. She is in Taos. I could get into the car and drive to Taos. That’s how close she is. But I want to tell her that I love the…
Continue ReadingCOLUMN FROM MARGUERITE KEARNS I started with evaluating my emphasis on my feet. They are neglected in general, says my exercise teacher. And reluctantly I admitted that the category of my mind and that of spirit are given more emphasis than my body. Yikes. This is something I have to correct. That’s why I registered…
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