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Clarissa W. Atkinson

@oldestvocation.bsky.social

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Author: The Oldest Vocation: Christian Motherhood in the Middle Ages; Mystic & Pilgrim: "The Book" #MargeryKempe. Fmr Assoc Dean harvarddivinity.bsky.social. Alum @BCHistoryDept @SmithCollege. Now: #1950s all over again oldestvocation.com ↩️

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Clarissa W. Atkinson @oldestvocation.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Good Trouble Lives On #EllsworthME: John Lewis Day of Action July 17, 2025 #GoodTrouble #GoodTroubleLivesOn #JohnLewisDayOfAction cc @dfadcoalition.bsky.social @demcast.com @indivisible.org @popdemocaction.bsky.social @thirdactorg.bsky.social @mariefollayttar.bsky.social goodtroubleliveson.org

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Clarissa W. Atkinson @oldestvocation.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Hands Off! Boston #HandsOff

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Clarissa W. Atkinson @oldestvocation.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

In 1898 my great-grandfather argued #WongKimArk @ SCOTUS, with #BirthrightCitizenship as a requirement of #14A 14th Amendment. He prevailed despite the xenophobia of the era. Now, in the face of Trump's threats & deportations, we must insist on that same argument: oldestvocation.com/2024/01/08/f...

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Clarissa W. Atkinson @oldestvocation.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Correct. Thank you for this. I wrote about #WongKimArk #BirthrightCitizenship #14thAmendment #14A here. My great-grandfather J. Hubley Ashton argued the case @ SCOTUS in 1898. Fun fact: the then US Solicitor General was a former Confederate, allowed back into government bsky.app/profile/olde...

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Clarissa W. Atkinson @oldestvocation.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

"I was the mother of three in 1965, when it became legal for married couples in Connecticut to buy and use contraceptives. I didn’t live in Connecticut, luckily, but I welcomed news of Griswold v. Connecticut in which SCOTUS established the right to privacy…" oldestvocation.com/2022/01/09/p...

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