Some of these I’ve consumed and loved, while others I haven’t yet gotten to. There is SO much to this subject to learn more about - way more than I could include in this particular episode. This list is a little different than usual, as some of these are sources I used to write the episode and others are here to give you recommended reading/listening/watching. Grab your best white dress, a yellow badge, and a thick skin. I want to explore some of the more haunting aspects of the fight for suffrage, and the dark consequences that come when you don’t have a public voice. But to tell the story fully would take many hours, and that is not my aim here. I’ve posted a list of books, movies, podcasts, and online resources that will guide you down a few of them. The story of the American suffrage movement is long and complex, filled with noteworthy characters, highlights and shadows, and plenty of paths we could get lost wandering down. A vote that, until 100 years ago, most women couldn’t cast at all. And I bring it to you now because America is about to cast its vote for its next president. Women bonding together and turning on each other, too. But it is full of the haunting: women being ignored, and abused, and told to be quiet. This Halloween special has nothing to do with poisoners or murderesses or ghosts of any kind. To win women the vote, she will give everything she has. She is alone, and weary to her bones, but she will not let them break her. All the rest have chosen to end their hunger strike. She will bleed, and gag, as they tell her that all the other women are behaving. She knows what they will do: strap down her hands, shove a tube up her nose, and pour milk by force into her body. Her throat burns in protest, her heart slamming hard against her ribs. She will never give in.Ĭhains clank: a door opens.

She will not eat, no matter what they do to her. Her head swims, her thoughts a jumble, tension knotted deep in her gut. She wouldn’t even if it were the finest banquet. A bowl of something sits near the door, writhing with worms. The whole place stinks of sweat and sick. Rats scurry across the filthy floor, their nails scraping against it. A woman huddles in the corner of a dank, lightless cell.

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