My professor/head of the dept asked “what was the best part of undergrad.” Which turned into a speech on my research on Alice Paul and Lucy Burns because no one, besides the head of the dept and the former history major, really knew who either of them were (which is problematic on so many levels)…
women have been forgotten from history and women writers have been erased by history which is why I study women writers.
It strengthens us to learn from their mistakes, empowering us to recognize our own mistakes, and we can also take...