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Helena Bonham Carter plays their mother, a suffragette who suddenly disappears, leaving behind a string of clues.
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Radhika Seth, Vogue, 11 May 2025
It has long been associated with the suffragette movement.
—Mikelle Street, WWD, 2 Nov. 2024
And there is no memory more inconvenient to the American project than that of Black women who remember everything: slavery, segregation, the betrayals of the suffragettes, the sidelining during Civil Rights, and now, the erasure from intellectual leadership.
—Jack Hill, Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2025
American women have long used quilts to send messages to lawmakers, from abolitionists and suffragettes to the AIDS Memorial quilt.
—Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 7 May 2025
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Radhika Seth, Vogue, 11 May 2025
It has long been associated with the suffragette movement.
—Mikelle Street, WWD, 2 Nov. 2024
And there is no memory more inconvenient to the American project than that of Black women who remember everything: slavery, segregation, the betrayals of the suffragettes, the sidelining during Civil Rights, and now, the erasure from intellectual leadership.
—Jack Hill, Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2025
American women have long used quilts to send messages to lawmakers, from abolitionists and suffragettes to the AIDS Memorial quilt.
—Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 7 May 2025
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“Suffragette.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/suffragette. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.
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suffragette
noun
suf·frag·ette
ˌsəf-ri-ˈjet 
: a woman who supported voting rights for women when women were not allowed to vote
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