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quote 2014-09-07 15:46
First Woman Mayor
Prairyerth - William Least Heat-Moon

Women achieved the right to vote in stages in Kansas.  They could vote in school elections after 1861 and in municipal elections after 1887, the year Susanna Moore Salter of Argonia became the first woman to be elected to the office of mayor of any town in the United States.  The right of Kansas women to vote in state and national elections came eight years before the Nineteenth Amendment.

Leo E. Oliva, "Kansas: A Hard Land in the Heartland" (1988)

 

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quote 2014-02-19 01:19
The loss of privilege is not oppression.

N.K. Jemisin, the awesome science fiction & fantasy authoress

 

The above tweet is her response to a group of highly influential writers lamenting the rise of criticism regarding sexism and discrimination in speculative publishing. The bestselling older, heterosexual white males with significant platforms to voice their opinions feel marginalized, do they? As Jemisin puts it, the intention of the First Amendment was not about a "guy's right to be a bigoted asshole, essentially unchallenged." Her longer comment on the "SFWA shenanigans" here.

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