As a WGSS major and a student who has been interested in women’s movements for most of my life, I have studied the suffrage movement in many classes and discussed it in different contexts. However, this Clarke Forum presentation put forth a new way of looking at the suffrage movement with new names, ideas, and…
Watching American artist Lynn Hershman Leeson’s 2010 documentary film !Women Art Revolution was a fabulous and inspiring light during my COVID-19 quarantine. Amidst what has felt like a cyclical entrapment in the mundane world of waking up, coffee, homework, bed, repeat, Leeson’s film sheds light on the inspiration of the artists of the 20th century…
This summer I interned at the Alice Paul Institute (API) in my hometown of Mount Laurel, New Jersey. API is set up at the exact house, known as Paulsdale, where Alice Paul was born and returned to during her days of campaigning for women’s suffrage in the early twentieth century. For those who are unfamiliar…