Sharon Spaulding (she/her)

#Researching suffragist, sex ed activist & relative, #MaryWareDennett. Writing her untold story. I publish a monthly newsletter, Women Make History. Dog lover!

[Sharon Spaulding (she/her) @SharonSpauldin]

Thanks @roxyszal and @MsMagazine for publishing my essay imagining #MrsMaisel meeting my hero, #MaryWareDennett 🍾

https://t.co/Tfhn05Pd8X

#RepoRrights #herstory

[Sharon Spaulding (she/her) @SharonSpauldin]

Signing off. Shame on @ElonMusk

[Sharon Spaulding (she/her) @SharonSpauldin]

@michele_norris I applaud your decision, integrity, and courage to stand firm. We all rely on the collective reporting, fact checking, and distillation of world events by papers like WaPo whether or not we agree with the content. Shame on Jeff Bezos for cowering and lacking leadership!

[Sharon Spaulding (she/her) @SharonSpauldin]

@lmacthompson1 He will love it!!! Took my two labs on a hike and a river swim earlier today!

[Sharon Spaulding (she/her) @SharonSpauldin]

Happy birthday, #MaryWareDennett, b: April 4, 1872.

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

Hattie McDaniel accepted her Oscar at a segregated "No Blacks" hotel in Los Angeles for her role in "Gone with the Wind."

She made history as the first Black American to win an Oscar. Sadly, all of the film's Black actors, including McDaniel, were prohibited from attending the film's premiere in 1939 at the Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia.

Clark Gable, one of the film's stars, refused to attend if Hattie wasn't allowed, but she convinced him to go without her.

Even though McDaniel was eventually allowed into the hotel, she had to be escorted and was relegated to the back of the room, separated from her white co-stars.

[Sharon Spaulding (she/her) @SharonSpauldin]

Agree completely! This could have much bigger consequences.

[Einav Rabinovitch-Fox @DrEinavRFox]

Today, in 1911, after 146 garment workers of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory died in an horrific fire, the public was propelled to action. As Frances Perkins, FDR Labor Secretary, who witnessed the fire, said: "The New Deal started on March 25th, 1911 with the Triangle Fire."

[Sharon Spaulding (she/her) @SharonSpauldin]

Great article in @SmithsonianMag by Laura Kiniry and interview with @JoannaScutts about Heterodoxy, a secret society of feminists founded in 1912. Of course #MaryWareDennett was a charter member.

https://t.co/41JLh2uEGh

[Melissa Valmai @MelissaValmai]

Want some advice from 1913?

Comment a page number and I'll take a photo.

Both p1-73

[Sharon Spaulding (she/her) @SharonSpauldin]

@davewestfal1 Thanks, Dave! I’ll follow back…

[Sharon Spaulding (she/her) @SharonSpauldin]

Well done, @EmilyYoffe The life & struggles of #MaryWareDennett 100 years ago reflect ours today re access to abortion, birth control, sex ed, book banning and more. Great job holding up the mirror of the past and keeping women’s history alive.

@freepress #WomensHistoryMonth

[The Free Press @TheFP]

Mary Ware Dennett defied obscenity laws to educate young people about sex in the early 20th century—and paid a price.

Now, the same law that deemed her “filthy, vile, and indecent” could decide women’s future access to abortion.

@EmilyYoffe reports. https://t.co/cD8UR2ZlfX

[Sharon Spaulding (she/her) @SharonSpauldin]

Happy to repost this important story and know that the American Women's History Museum is one step closer to becoming a reality!

#WomensHistoryMonth2024 #Smithsonian

[Smithsonian American Women's History Museum @SIAmericanWomen]

Elizabeth C. Babcock has been named director of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum, effective June 3.

Read more: https://t.co/iADR1HO29C

[Sharon Spaulding (she/her) @SharonSpauldin]

@Alissa4TheUSA @LeadingReport Nope

[Sharon Spaulding (she/her) @SharonSpauldin]

@lmacthompson1 Makes sense to me!

[Sharon Spaulding (she/her) @SharonSpauldin]

@WasatchSnow It’s still confusing to me!

[Sharon Spaulding (she/her) @SharonSpauldin]

https://t.co/OHiWNTcamb

#Bannedbooks

[Sharon Spaulding (she/her) @SharonSpauldin]

Shame on @AppleSupport for the company issuing a new OS that somehow deletes Gmail from the mail program. My Apple Support person had me delete the account & now it can't be reinstalled until Apples fixes the bug!

[Sharon Spaulding (she/her) @SharonSpauldin]

Of the 3,517 recipients of the Medal of Honor, only one is a woman. Do you know her name?

Women Make History: Stories we should have learned in school. https://t.co/e6O9bYdcUk

#VeteransDay2023

[Utah Daily Snow @WasatchSnow]

A beautiful moment in time…

[Sharon Spaulding (she/her) @SharonSpauldin]

@aliciaandrz Can’t wait to read the piece on Shakespeare! Where? When?