Meggan Watterson
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And when Churchill dared to disparage women who were fighting for the right to vote, right?
He disparaged the suffrage movement.
Mary Maloney grabbed a bell and she followed Churchill wherever he went.
And whenever he tried to say something, Mary started ringing her bell and drowned out everything he was gonna say.
It's so creative and it's so powerful.
And what ended up happening is that she annoyed the hell out of everyone.
And he, of course, was only speaking to other men and people in positions of power.
And so they were like, who is this Mary?
What is like, what is she about?
And so it ended up really raising awareness about the fight for women's right to vote.
Then there was the Mothers of the Disappeared in Argentina, 1977, when they're
You know, young adult children were being disappeared in the middle of the night by the reign of terror.
They started gathering together, wearing white scarves and just demanding that this government be held accountable for the disappearance of their children.
There was Julia Butterfly Hill, who was.
When I was a budding eco-feminist and really considering joining her, this was in 1997, she stayed in a redwood tree named Luna for almost two years to protect it from being logged.
So she just stayed up in that tree.
There's the women...
of Liberia, Mass Action for Peace, they joined together, Christian and Muslim women, and they protest wearing all white in front of the presidential palace to end the Liberian Civil War.
They just refused...