lydiamoland.bsky.social
Biographer & philosopher, not necessarily in that order ✍️ Lydia Maria Child | WaPo, WSJ, Boston Globe ✦ Writing about women who rethought the world ✦Currently: 20C women rethinking war & peace ✦ 2026-7 Fellow at Harvard's Transcendentalism Initiative
👤 Joined on 20 September 2023
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@lydiamoland.bsky.socialSanger’s clinic was only open 10 days before police shut it down for violating the Comstock Act. That clinic never re-opened. Legal battles raged for years over family planning clinics, but Sanger eventually won.
Show PostOn this day in 1916, Margaret Sanger opened the first family planning clinic in the U.S. It was – and in many ways still is – one of the most groundbreaking moments in the long struggle for equal rights for women. 🧵 #Healthcare #Contraception #Abortion #Comstock #OTD
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