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Apr 10Liked by Bess Kalb

I'm getting ready to go see SUFFS for a second time; this time as a new co-producer of this Broadway musical about the women who fought for the right to vote in the USA and in Great Britain. I'm almost 74 and my hair is white & I'm like that old lady in the Women's March with the sign "I Can't Believe I Still Have To Protest This S#!t!" I can't believe we're still fighting for the most basic freedoms, but we must "keep marching" to the ballot boxes. When my grandmother was an adult wife with two children, she did not yet have the right to vote. My Grandma! Here in the USA! I'm only the 3rd generation of women in my family with the right to vote. Keep marching.

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I’m stuck on Arizona not existing and yet they’ve excavated this ridiculous law??

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Once again grateful for the thought-provoking humor.

I'm really surprised we haven't seen a doc or historical fiction on Wyoming suffragettes, who won the right to vote in 1869 and cast their first ballots the next year. While AZ women were basically enslaved? What was up with that?

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Republicans never stopped their campaign against Roe. Their unceasing court challenges and legislative efforts sought to make abortion practically impossible if not legally. But even still I never thought we would get to this point, a close election away from a theocracy presided over by a cynical atheist. What rights will my unborn grandchildren have left? Fuck!

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