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🇱🇧 It's pronounced SARR-uh
🧠 neurodivergent ✍ writer 🖌occasional painter 🐱 cat mama 🌺 vegan (she/her)
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These creatures make me think of the facehuggers from Alien, only much cuter.
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In 1847, Achsa W. Sprague became ill with rheumatic fever at age 20. Believing that spirits helped her recover, she became a popular Spiritualist medium & began performing all throughout the United States. She was also an abolitionist & women's rights advocate. #WyrdWednesday
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Cora L.V. Scott—one of the best-known mediums of the Spiritualist movement—was raised in a community that believed in abolitionism & nonviolence. At age 12 she began having trances where she'd write messages from the dead, & by 15 was performing for audiences. #WyrdWednesday
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Flora Wellman, mother of author Jack London, was a Spiritualist who claimed she could channel spirits & predict the future. She conducted seances, advocated for human rights, & worked as an assistant for the feminist publisher Amanda Slocum. #WyrdWednesday
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Mary Todd Lincoln became involved in Spiritualism in 1862, when her son Willie died of typhoid fever. Her husband, President Abraham Lincoln, was assassinated three years later, & she began hosting seances at the White House. #WyrdWednesday
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In 1857, Sojourner Truth—who escaped slavery to become an abolitionist & women's rights activist—sold her possessions to move to Harmonia, a Spiritualist utopian community established in Battle Creek, Michigan in 1850. #WyrdWednesday
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Victoria Woodhull—political activist & the first woman to run for president—joined the Spiritualist Movement in the 1870s. Her detractors dubbed her Mrs. Satan, not only for her belief in spirits, but in free love, women's suffrage, the abolition of slavery. #WyrdWednesday
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The Spiritualist Movement provided public speaking opportunities for women, so many female mediums seized the opportunity to speak about issues like women's suffrage & the abolition of slavery, claiming these ideas came from the spirit realm. #WyrdWednesday
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And these as well. I think I'll make some more.
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