cocoku: Suffragette surveillance photos from 1912. Scotland Yard’s first surveillance camera, bought in 1912, was used to spy on “increasingly militant suffragettes” who demanded votes for women, regarded as terrorists in their day. Let’s not forget this. Let’s not forget that the very idea that women are people, who should have the same rights as men and who can form their own ideas independent of men, was once considered radical and dangerous. And let’s consider how much has not changed, how much backsliding we’ve done, and how much more work there is to do.

cocoku:

Suffragette surveillance photos from 1912.

Scotland Yard’s first surveillance camera, bought in 1912, was used to spy on “increasingly militant suffragettes” who demanded votes for women, regarded as terrorists in their day.

Let’s not forget this. Let’s not forget that the very idea that women are people, who should have the same rights as men and who can form their own ideas independent of men, was once considered radical and dangerous. And let’s consider how much has not changed, how much backsliding we’ve done, and how much more work there is to do.