Marie Equi thought about the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920? Q: What might have longtime suffragist and political radical Dr. Helquist notes, “as a publicly, if not widely, known lesbian, Equi served as a role model for other outsiders to assert their place in public discourse and civic engagement.” She and her partner Harriet Speckart adopted a daughter and raised her together, challenging cultural norms of heterosexuality at the time. Marie Equi (1872-1952) graduated from the University of Oregon Medical Department (now OHSU) in 1903 and advocated for women’s reproductive health and control, worker rights, and free speech. Marie Equi’s experiences in the suffrage movement and as a radicalized activist who would begin a sentence in San Quentin prison for speaking out against World War I less than two months after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. In Winter Term of 2018, Desiree Root, a senior Gender Studies student and assistant in Professor Kimberly Jensen’s Honors Colloquium at Western Oregon University, interviewed Michael Helquist, author of Marie Equi: Radical Politics and Outlaw Passions (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2105). Tutorial for Submitting a Site for the NVWT.Oregon Women in the 1920 Census Born in Mexico.
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