By Senti Sojwal — 2016
Helen LaKelly Hunt talks about what modern day activists can learn from America’s first feminists, how we can strive to make our movements intersectional, and how history can move us to raise our voices even louder.
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A real educational and heart felt talk between two deep thinkers.
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