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20 May 2016, 12:26 am

kraftiekortie wrote:
I thought you were non-verbal because of physical reasons.

Are you non-verbal because of autism reasons, too?



I am non verbal for physical reasons although I did always have had a slight speech impediment probably from autism. When one becomes non verbal for the first time in your 50's it is quite distressing. These non verbal autism activists showed me I can still do productive things even while non verbal. They unkowingly were telling me, we can do it, why can't you?


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20 May 2016, 11:44 am

0_equals_true wrote:
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Constance Markievicz: A politician, revolutionary nationalist, suffragette and socialist.

I was under the impression that the women's suffrage movement before the Pankhursts referred to themselves as Suffragist rather than, Suffragette and when contempory especially the socialist ones differentiated themselves. Arguably the Suffragettes were less universal/egalitarian to start with. However I'm not sure if the terminology is cut and dry. Pre-Pankhurts Suffragists are overlooked.


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Amity wrote:
Constance Markievicz: A politician, revolutionary nationalist, suffragist and socialist.
Better? :D
The Gore-Booth family were generally not typical of their class, her grandfather is noted as a fair landlord in an era where that was not the norm, Lissadell house is one of my favorite places to visit in the summer time.



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26 May 2016, 9:43 pm

Lily Tang Williams sounds like a pretty impressive person, running for Senate in Colorado:

https://twitter.com/Lily4Liberty


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