Elizabeth Woodville and her daughter both are asking their heads from sanctuary.
Empress Matilda is angered and vowing revenge. (You don’t wanna make her angry, she’ll cut a bitch)
Margaret of Anjou is gonna walk around wailing lamentations.
Catherine of Valois is too busy consorting below her station.
Mary Queen of Scots and her formidable mother, Mary of Guise are like: whoa.
Victoria thought she was persecuted but she was mostly wrong.
Isabella of France is like: what in the Mel Gibson nonsense is this?
Eleanor of Aquitaine is regally annoyed AF
Caroline of Brunswick is like barely legally married but still pissed off about this
Queen Anne would care but she’s pretty busy having babies and can’t you just sort this out yourselves?
Victorias youngest Beatrice is too busy being ordered around by her mother to be upset.
PRINCESS MOTHERFUCKING DIANA!!!
Wallis Simpson was too but I feel much less bad for her. Don’t be a Nazi. Sorry not sorry.
I absolutely cannot end with Wallis.
Matilda of Scotland peace’d out to join a convent cuz her husband cheated so much. So she’s bothered but also holy, ya know?
Margaret Beaufort had a goddamn child at 13 and you don’t even KNOW from persecuted.
Catherine of Aragon waited for Henry to marry her for like 6 fucking years only to get thrown over for a younger woman and you think you’ve got it bad?
Anne of Denmark’s husband and brother had orgies together which made Christmas hella awkward, so quit your whining.
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz watched her husband go insane and lose the colonies and so she has had it with this utter tosh
Jane Seymour deserved it.
I said what I said.
This should be: SHAKING their heads. Damn autocorrect
Can’t end with stupid Jane Seymour either.
Berengaria of Navarre never made it to england, only spent a few months with her hubby and didn’t have any kids because possibly he didn’t like women at all so please inform the class about your troubles.
I wonder if @FlorenceHRS can help a gal out with some early medieval queens I’ve missed who’ve been persecuted AF
Meghan Markle is so much the obvious answer here that I cannot even snark about it.
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This disaster is a fascinating intersection of women’s history and labor history, and imho does not get enough credit for being as influential as it was.
So let’s dig in, shall we? #TriangleShirtwaistFactory @tourguidetell
First off, what exactly is a shirtwaist??
Great question. It looks like this:
Charles Sumner thread!!
This thread is inspired by a picture from the terror attack on the US Capitol on Wed. I’m not going to copy or otherwise link to the picture b/c I find it offensive but it involves a protestor standing with a confederate flag in front of Sumner’s portrait
Sumner was Boston born and raised to a very liberal family and grew up committed to racially integrated schools and prison reform among much else. Above all he was a passionate abolitionist. He was a celebrated orator and considered a radical even in liberal MA
Before the 17th amendment, senators were not directly elected, but appointed by their state legislatures. MA, newly dominated by democrats, elected Sumner by a 1 vote majority to replace Daniel Webster in 1851.