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Ruth Green-Cole's avatar

Well written ❤️ thank you for your great work

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15thCenturyFeminist's avatar

Thank you, Ruth! I’m grateful for the kind words and the time spent 💜

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Hans Jorgensen's avatar

Thank you for reposting this, because I wasn't on Substack last February, and this is great to read now.

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15thCenturyFeminist's avatar

Hans! Thank you for spending your time with it. 💜

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Hans Jorgensen's avatar

I do hope you realize I am not just spending time with it. In these days when nearly every news story breaks my heart open, I'm trying to comprehend how we got here. Your research shares some important groundwork for that. Now on my way to a protest...

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15thCenturyFeminist's avatar

This is exactly why I write. Thank you for affirming that, Hans. It does mean so much!! Sending positive energy your way!!

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Jan Irwin's avatar

Ohmygoddess. I am 75, second wave feminist, mother of daughters and granddaughters. This is so excellent, it reminds me of discovering Brownmiller, Rich, Dworkin, all of my first saviors. Am sharing your soul with everyone i know who will carry you on to others. Thank you. You give me hope.

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15thCenturyFeminist's avatar

Wowza, this is such high praise and I’m so honored! Thank you for spending your precious time with my words and these women 💜

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Sarah O'Neal Sharpe's avatar

What a timely re-share. Thank you for providing us this detailed history.

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15thCenturyFeminist's avatar

Thank YOU for spending your precious time with it. 💜

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Leanne Shawler's avatar

Wait, so a guy made a revision to an old manuscript and instead of fixing it, it was used to discredit her?!?!? Oy.

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15thCenturyFeminist's avatar

Just infuriating, no?! 😩

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Leanne Shawler's avatar

Very!

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15thCenturyFeminist's avatar

When I saw that, and then saw the evidence of her erasure through the popularity of the revised texts—blood boiling for sure! I so appreciate you spending your time here with my words and these women 💜

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Holly A Brown's avatar

Thank you for this really important piece 🙏

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15thCenturyFeminist's avatar

Thank YOU for uplifting it and spending your time with my words 💜

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Story Carrier's avatar

This will stay with me every time I see a celebration (widespread) about the birth of a white child. Thank you for carrying this important story to us. "the United States’ rising maternal mortality rates and lack of access to reproductive healthcare, which both disproportionately impact Black women.5 Dr. Rainford, author of Pregnant While Black: Advancing Justice for Maternal Health in America, says implicit bias is a contributing factor, “citing stories in the news about Black women and families who say doctors ignored their reports of symptoms and requests for help....It is clear exactly which mother this white-supremacist capitalistic patriarchal nation wishes to protect"

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15thCenturyFeminist's avatar

Yes! We celebrate the births of white children and nationalize when one goes missing (always a tragedy), but what of all the kids left behind from the systems the white parents built? What of the MMIWG?! It’s all so obvious and all so gross. The white supremacy of it all 😩

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Carol McQuire's avatar

Thank you!

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15thCenturyFeminist's avatar

Thank YOU 💜

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Fiona Leonard's avatar

Beautifully written and a veritable mountain of research!

Speaking of gossip, have you come across the "witch's bridle"?

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