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March 29, 2020

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Guest Post: Dear Phil Donahue

By Kristin Lowe February 4, 1980. The credits began to roll on the Phil Donahue show. Director. Executive Producer. Senior Producer. Superimposed titles and names washed over General Relief Society President, Barbara Smith. She sat next to her sister in arms, Beverly Campbell, poised to answer Donahue’s final question of the hour. Smith maintained the visage of what a New York Times article described as the “Hollywood version of the glamorous grandmother.” Silver bouffant hair. Modish suit. And, “homespun manner.” Smith had spoken out against the Equal Rights Amendment, and for continued progress in women’s rights, nearly since the day she...

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January 17, 2020

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Toward Intersectionality: Censuring White Mormon Feminism

A few weeks ago I watched the Tournament of Roses parade perched atop a cold ladder set up on Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena, California. I observed several floats and entries that were thematically related to the 100thanniversary of the passage of the 19thamendment. A marching formation of women costumed in period dresses and suffragist sashes accompanied the floats. I observed the signage on the floats and in the hands of the participants: “Votes for Women” and “Women Win the Vote 1920!” I noticed the vintage white dresses and thought, “It’s significant that they’re all wearing white, since it was only...

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January 13, 2020

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Guest Post: Zion’s Suffragists Podcast Launch

By Dianna Douglas It’s a year of grand anniversaries for American women: One hundred years since the Nineteenth Amendment guaranteed women’s suffrage nationwide. Fifty-five years since the Voting Rights Act protected racial minorities at the polls. And, one anniversary unique to Utah -- 150 years since women in America first voted under an equal suffrage law. It was so long ago that the issues and the passions of the time seem quaint, and the details hopelessly hazy. That is, if we can pull them up at all. Women--and men--in Utah fought extraordinarily hard for the vote. This January marks 150 years since...

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