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From Babblery host Suki Wessling: Resistance to “woke” is futile

When fear meets joy at the ballot box, sometimes fear wins. But when fear and joy duke it out in the dark stairwells of history, only joy can tell a story of redemption.

Ruth Rosen on the silencing of women

Historian Ruth Rosen didn't just write a book about women's history—she lived it. In this short selection from the full interview, Ruth explains how women's history is erased, and what marginalized people need to do to keep their history from being erased.

In her work in the Second Wave feminist movement, historian Ruth Rosen experienced a lot of revelations about the lives of women. But once that time was past, she experienced a different type of revelation as male historians described the 70s as "a decade when nothing of importance happened."

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