Votes for Women

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Starting next year, you'll see celebration galore for the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, often celebrated as voting rights for American women. But which women could vote? We talk with historian Lisa Tetrault about the myths of suffrage (spoiler alert: it's not actually a right) and the racist politics of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Then we move to the state of suffrage today with activists Arekia Bennett of Mississippi Votes and DeJuana Thompson of Woke Vote, who are working to ensure that marginalized people are enfranchised under new waves of voter suppression.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend.
0:01.6	A podcast for long distance besties everywhere.
0:04.1	I'm Amina Tussaud.
0:05.6	And I'm Anne Friedman.
0:06.8	Hi Anne.
0:07.8	Hi Amina Tussaud.
0:09.3	I feel like you're about to troll me.
0:11.3	Well, what are we talking about today?
0:13.3	Okay, so we're talking about history and milestones,
0:16.8	possibly fake milestones.
0:18.5	Like, i.e. our historical milestones related to social justice, a scam.
0:22.8	Like, that's kind of the underlying theme of this week's episode, right?
0:29.3	So you're talking about the scam of women's suffrage?
0:31.9	Tell me about it.
0:32.9	Oh my god.
0:33.4	If only women scammed their way into like full, complete, unfettered suffrage 100 years ago.
0:38.4	So yeah, so this year marks 100 years since the US House of Representatives approved a resolution
0:45.1	that said to the US government,
0:47.4	Hey, you can't stop women from voting.
0:49.4	Which is the 19th amendment.
0:52.9	And then when it was ratified the following year, 1920,
0:57.2	it allowed 26 million women to cast their votes in time for the 1920 presidential election.
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