{"id":29430,"date":"2020-09-29T20:42:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T01:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/?p=29430"},"modified":"2020-09-29T20:42:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T01:42:59","slug":"a-is-for-activism-or-want-to-know-whats-going-on-in-milwaukee-during-the-election-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2020\/09\/a-is-for-activism-or-want-to-know-whats-going-on-in-milwaukee-during-the-election-season\/","title":{"rendered":"A Is for Activism — Or, Want to Know What’s Going on in Milwaukee During the Election Season?"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the best parts of my new position with the Institute for Women\u2019s Leadership at Marquette is getting the opportunity to meet and work with amazing faculty across campus. Working with our steering committee since last spring, we had planned to have a great conference focusing on suffrage and innovation\u2014how was women\u2019s intellectual empowerment linked to gaining the right to vote; and how the activism behind gaining the vote and then fighting for voting rights is imbued with innovative thinking and acting.<\/p>\n

The good news is that the entire conference has gone virtual and our amazing speakers all taped their sessions in August. (You can watch my trailer\u00a0here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

This is now available on our\u00a0incredible website<\/a>\u00a0which has all of the speakers, a really cool interactive timeline (with original documents and then discussion questions a teacher can use for class), voting resources, and more.<\/p>\n

For Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), I love the panel I moderated on voting rights and activism\u2013How the Women of Milwaukee Will Choose the Next President<\/em>\u00a0(up on\u00a0YouTube here<\/a>).\u00a0 I was channeling Jen Reynolds\u2019 “A is for Activism” here\u2014and talking about how creative thinking is needed in various get out the vote efforts led by women in Milwaukee.<\/div>\n
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Law professor Kara Swanson, in her talk on Votes for Inventive Women<\/em><\/a>, is another great talk for class linking intellectual property with the suffrage movement. Or the book talk by my MU colleague Melissa Shew, who, upon realizing that none of us were being taught about any women philosophers, wrote and is about to publish an entire anthology on Philosophy for Girls\u2014think “desk reference for every woman we didn\u2019t learn.”<\/div>\n
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But mostly I\u2019ve enjoyed listening to all of the talks to fill in my own gaps in knowledge\u2014stories about the suffrage movement that I never learned and the involvement of women in the fight for voting rights in the 20th century. Frankly, this past week has only highlighted even further how important voting is and what a crucial role we all can play.<\/div>\n
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So\u2014please watch, please share with your networks and with your kid\u2019s teachers, please use in class and assign, please discuss, and please do reach out if you want to brainstorm other ideas for how to use this material.<\/div>\n
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Lastly, we will have two live virtual sessions with interdisciplinary speakers on October 16th at noon and 4 central\u2014you and your class can register on the website for those as well.\u00a0 Thanks!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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