Keep Marching!!
Inspiration we could all use right now
What Up? For me, it was seeing an incredible performance of Suffs at the Fisher Theatre in Detroit recently — just the shot in the arm and perspective I needed in the midst of so much darkness in our world.
The music is fabulous — two Tony Awards — and the depictions of generations of women fighting for our rights brought me to tears more than once.
I was excited to learn that it is streaming on PBS/YouTube this weekend! If you haven’t seen it, click here: Suffs – PBS Great Performances
I got an email from Michael Moore today promoting the PBS screening and sharing a picture of his suffragist grandmother, Lois Elizabeth Wall.
I wonder if my grandmother, Helen Irene Dawson, was one too. She was born in 1900 — old enough, I suppose. It seems unlikely since she was living on a farm in central Indiana, though she did attend business college in Indianapolis around 1918, so maybe. I never heard her mention the movement, but I know she voted. I wish I had asked her.
My other grandmother, Helen Myrtle Hudson, was born in 1906 — too young to have been involved, and living on a farm in an even more rural part of Indiana.
Even if they — or any of my other family members — weren’t suffragists, I like to think they supported the movement. The millions of women who fought so hard for our rights inspire me to keep fighting the good fight.
And Suffs’ finale — “Keep Marching” — sets to music exactly the message I need to hear right now. I hope it will inspire you to keep fighting too. We’re in this together…
Click here to listen: Keep Marching