Feminism is not over, the work goes on everywhere every day Rebecca Solnit
Jul 08, 2022
4 minutes
Illustration Bill Bragg
As it happened, I was in Edinburgh the day Roe v Wade was overturned, and the next day I caught a train back to London and did what I usually do when I get anywhere near King’s Cross station. I took the short walk to the old St Pancras churchyard to visit the tombstone of the great feminist ancestor Mary Wollstonecraft, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman To be there was to remember that feminism did not start recently – Wollstonecraft died in 1797 – and it did not stop on 24 June.
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