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@ScotSuffragette
A creative project led by #artists activists & archivists. Recovering & re-voicing #herstories & Celebrating Scotland's #Suffragettes. 🗣🐦@Clareenough @tsBeall
Nov 6, 2021 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
🥦Following our earlier post for #COP26 on #vegetarianism, we wanted to share some insights & quotes from #suffrage activists who *were* #vegetarians 🥒🌶🍅

☮️ Vegetarianism was associated w/ peace, & standing up against the poor treatment of fellow living creatures 🐄🐑🦆🐖
​1/ 📣This quote from MrsDespard describes how #vegetarianism was linked to #socialjustice:
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​🗣“The #women ’s movement relates to the other great movements of the world…The awakened instinct which feels the call of the sub-human, which says ‘I am the voice of the voiceless.'"
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Oct 22, 2020 • 6 tweets • 6 min read
We're looking 👀 at Black Minority Ethnic herstories🧑🏿👩🏽 over #Lockdown & researching BAME suffrage activists in #Scotland ✊🏿✊🏽✊🏾 for 'Celebrating Scotland's Suffragettes'! So here's info👇🏾on 💥Ms Jessie Margaret Soga💥(1870-1954) in this thread👇🏾#BlackHistoryMonth We're still gathering research 📚 & we've not found a picture of her YET🤞🏽but so far we know
Jessie Margaret Soga was:
* a 'prime mover' &Joint Secretary of the Women's Freedom League (Hillhead/Glasgow Branch)

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 #BlackHistoryMonthUK #BlackHistoryMonth2020 #BlackLivesMatter