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Maya Rodale

@mayarodale.bsky.social
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Bestselling author of funny, feminist historical fiction. Substack: Hidden Herstories. Women's History for Modern Feminists. www.mayarodale.substack.com.

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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
"Ever since woman took her life in her own hands, ever since she began to think for herself, the dawning of a great light has flooded the world." --hope from the feminists of 1887
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
"Now I’m old, all constraints are gone and I can do what I like,” she said. One of her recent songs includes the chorus: “So shout out, fuck it / It’s my time! / The stage is mine! / I’m 79 / And in my fucking prime.” www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
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‘We were the original punks’: the rebel women revitalising local music scenes
A thriving movement is reclaiming the genre and bringing more diverse audiences to live venues
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
"If the lady you mention will only sleep all she wants, and make it a rule to rest when she is tired, she will never get ill." --Life advice from Suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1866. Your feminist foremothers want you to take a nap!
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Jill Sorenson @jillsorenson.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I adored Some Like it Scandalous by @mayarodale.bsky.social! Best HEA I've read in ages. Great story topped off with a perfect proposal.
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NPR @npr.org · 18/08/2025
To save the lives of infants and small kids in lower resource countries, there are a handful of tools: anti-malarial drugs, bed nets and vaccines. A massive experiment in rural Kenya suggests another. n.pr/4fKcjw3
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Researchers discover a secret weapon that saves babies' lives. And it's not medical
To save the lives of infants and small kids in lower resource countries, there are a handful of tools: anti-malarial drugs, bed nets and vaccines. A massive experiment in rural Kenya suggests another.
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
US Representative: "Now ladies, what is really the legal status of marriage, so far as the condition of the wife is concerned?" Susan B. Anthony: "One of servitude, and of the hardest kind, and just for board and clothes, too." --House Judiciary Meeting in 1871
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Today's fast fashion factories sound a lot like Gilded Age sweatshops: "...sewing on hundreds of buttons, or ironing hundreds of collars. Depending on the complexity of the task, workers earn between one and 10 yuan per item, toiling for long hours in cramped conditions."
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China’s fast-fashion capital slows down under Trump’s trade war
Guangzhou is the humming heart of the global fast fashion industry, but uncertainty over US tariffs is putting pressure on orders and profits
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
"If women, on being made really free to choose, will not marry, then we must arraign men on the charge of having made the married state so irksome and distasteful to women that they prefer celibacy when they dare enjoy it." --19th century women on the 21st century "male loneliness epidemic"
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Maybe affordable, quality childcare is our generational equivalent of the fight for women's right to vote or to legalize birth control. buff.ly/Me9O6Pn
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Childcare is a hellscape for most US families. Why isn’t there a bigger push for change?
Long seen as women’s work, childcare is underpaid and considered a private matter for families – not government
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
"Resolved, That the members of this society do hereby pledge themselves not to aid either by their labor, time or money, the proposed celebration of the independence of the men of the nation, unless before July 4, 1876, the women of the land shall be guaranteed their political freedom."
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Ever since I first read this story of Susan B. Anthony helping an abused wife escape—breaking the law to do so—I couldn’t stop thinking about it. This is sisterhood in action. buff.ly/N7sGrRb
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Susan B Anthony and the Runaway Wife
Legally wrong but morally right
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 25/06/2025
Incredible mom energy from Mira Nair
Reuters photo of Zohran Mamdani onstage, with his mom looking up at him lovingly and squeezing his cheek.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
"Why do these people submit to the cruel tyranny that our government exercises over them?" The answer is apparent—"simply because they are ignorant of their power." --The Complete History of Women's Suffrage
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
"In our hearts we feel that there is a word sweeter than mother, home, or heaven. That word is liberty." Matilda Joslyn Gage (1829-1898)
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Imagine listing the occupations of Florence Nightingale, Millicent Fawcett and other reformers as "blank" on census records! It happened and it's how women get erased from history.
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Contributions of 68 million women unrecognised in historical records | London Daily News
The legacies of 68 million women could go unrecognised in history, with census records labelling them as ‘unoccupied’. That’s according to researchers at family history website Findmypast¹, who…
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
“It is not enough that we should have the vote. We need the means by which the votes are cast.”
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Ranked Choice Voting Is A Women’s Issue
In 1916, Jeannette Rankin began her historic run for Congress.
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Men were afraid that this would happen if women got the vote.
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Women in 1855: "Women must have equal pay for equal work." Women in 2025: "Women must have equal pay for equal work and wtf why are we still fighting for this!?" Source: The Complete History of Women's Suffrage
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
"In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of woman. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer." --Lucy Stone in 1850, Suff who made it possible for modern women to get free
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/05/2025
Don’t rank Cuomo!!
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Sara Catterall @scatterall.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Happy Birthday to Amelia Bloomer! She would be 207 today, and appalled at how relevant her arguments still are for the legal and social rights of women, and all genders.
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Amelia Bloomer
A fascinating look at an underappreciated woman in American history whose newspaper fostered a national conversation on women’s issues.Those who recognize the name Amelia Bloomer usually do so because...
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Apparently, the scariest thing about emancipated and enfranchised women is that men might have to do housework and childcare. Don't promise me a good time!
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
"Did he ever take in the idea that to the mother of the race, and to her alone, belonged the right to say when a new being should be brought into the world?" --Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1855 on the rights of women to their own bodies. Outrageously still relevant.
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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
"Ours has been a cause to live for, a cause to die for if need be. It has been a movement with a soul, a dauntless, unconquerable soul ever leading onward. Women came, served and passed on but others took their places...." --The Suffs in 1920 after fighting for the vote for 72 years
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
No one wants to do housework: "Let the printer advertise for two girls to set type, and a hundred applications will be made, while women for the kitchen are very scarce." --Frances Gage in 1853
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
"We judge of the intellectual inferiority of our fellow-men by the amount of resistance they oppose to oppression." --Ernestine Rose in 1854 and many women today
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
“The establishing of woman on her rightful throne is the greatest revolution the world has ever known or ever will know.” --Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1869 #Goals
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Happy birthday to Nellie Bly! If she were alive today, this fearless stunt reporter would be washing dishes in the White House, joining a union of Amazon warehouse workers, or making coffee as your local barista....all for front page stories about people's lives.
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Remembering Nellie Bly
When women’s stories were not deemed newsworthy, Nellie Bly made them sensational.
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Apparently, the scariest thing about emancipated and enfranchised women is that men might have to do housework and childcare. Don't promise me a good time!
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
"It is only one of our rights to dress comfortably..." --Amelia Bloomer to Susan B. Anthony on wearing Bloomers in the 1850s
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
"Agitate. Educate. Organize." --Susan B. Anthony on how to run a revolution for human rights
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
This is from 1920. I don't think some men have gotten over it yet.
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
"In the hearings before the committee it will be found that one of the leaders among the suffragettes declared that they wanted the ballot for protection', and when asked against whom she desired protection' she promptly and frankly replied, `men.'" --Jailed for Freedom by Doris Stevens, 1920
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
On this Earth Day, I'm remembering Eunice Newton Foote, the female scientist who predicted global warming....IN 1856! If only we listened to women and nature....
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The female scientist who predicted global warming...in 1856
Let's remember Eunice Newton Foote, the pioneering climate scientist.
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
"A speaker in New York said that our democracy was the laughing stock of all the civilized nations of the world. It is the laughing stock because of the failure of this democracy to dare to be democratic." --The Complete History of Women's Suffrage, 1910
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
"We are told woman has all the rights she wants; and even women, I am ashamed to say, tell us so. They mistake the politeness of men for rights—seats while men stand in this hall to-night, and their adulations; but these are mere courtesies. We want rights." —Lucy Stone, Suffragist
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I can't believe we might have to fight this battle AGAIN. It took a long time for women to win the vote--let's not lose it now.
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The SAVE act will disenfranchise women
It took a long time for women to win the vote. Let's not lose it now.
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Apparently, the scariest thing about emancipated and enfranchised women is that men might have to do housework and childcare.
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
This is sadly appropriate to share again.
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Ladies, keep your name if you want to keep your right to vote
Lets all be Lucy Stoners. Democracy might depend on it.
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
“The old Slave Ocrats are bound to push out every man & woman of color from the enjoyment of civil rights." --Susan B. Anthony
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
69M married women could lose their voting rights if the SAVE Act is passed. Transgender individuals too. Why? Absent a valid passport, you must present a birth certificate *with the same name as your registration* to be registered. This is insane! Hands Off Her Vote
Who Does the SAVE Act Impact? 

1 in 3 American Women lack proof of citizenship documents with their current legal name. 

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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
"Woman should be as free to marry, or remain single, and as honorable in either relation, as man. There should be no stigma attached to the single woman, impelling her to avoid the possibility of such a position, by crushing her self-respect and individual ambition." --Suffs, 1851
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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff
Full of people down 5th avenue, view from 39th Street.
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
"We are here because when our country is at war for liberty and democracy . . ." At that point she was roughly seized by a policeman and placed under arrest. The great audience stood in absolute and amazed silence." --Jailed for Freedom by Doris Stevens, 1918
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
"Because of the false position of women, I have been compelled to hold all my noblest aspirations in abeyance in order to be a wife, a mother, a nurse, a cook and a household drudge..." --Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1840s
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I thought I was was going to write just about bicycling and women’s fashion and how the popularity of the bicycle meant women could start wearing pants. The real story is about how women’s cycling was a popular, promising spectator sport until men blatantly forced them out.
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The surprising history of women and bicycling
It's not about the bike or the bloomers
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
“Men seem to entertain fears that . . . they will be compelled to perform the domestic duties which belong exclusively to our sex…” --Amelia Bloomer in her newspaper The Lily (19th century)
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