Fighting for the Vote

Beasts and Bombs | Nebula Original

Extra History — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 17:30:13 +0000

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Sir John Hall, a conservative leaning, pro-women's suffrage MP, pushes open the doors to New Zealand’s Debating Chambers with an enormous scroll in his arms. He drops the fifteen-pound beast to the floor and kicks it open, sending it unfurling down the center of the room. Scrawled across these pages is 32,0000 signatures, nearly a quarter of the adult European women living in New Zealand.

Meanwhile, female activists known as Suffragettes begin to escalate their tactics in England. Embracing hunger strikes, bombings, and arson to force the issue into the public eye.

Guest Readers:
◼ Kate Sheppard: Sarah Renae Clark
◼ Annie Cobden-Sanderson: Sarah Z
◼ WSPU Newspaper: Jessie Gender
◼ Lilian Lenton: Maggie Mae Fish
◼ Christabel Pankhurst: J Draper
◼ Doris Stevens: Be Kind Rewind

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Suffrage Schism | Nebula Original

Extra History — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:30:20 +0000

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In 1869, the leaders of the American Equal Rights Association gathered for a meeting to discuss the fight for universal suffrage. Among the attendees, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, and Lucy Stone all believed in voting rights, but a new constitutional amendment is about to put that shared mission to the test. The proposed 15th Amendment would protect Black men’s right to vote, but it would not extend that right to women. Thus dividing the movement around equal rights and exposing divisions over race, gender, and the future of the Suffrage Movement.

Guest Readers:
◼ Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Lindsay Ellis
◼ Susan B. Anthony: Be Kind Rewind
◼ Frederick Douglas: F.D Signifier
◼ Francis Ellen Watkins Harper: Princess Weekes
◼ Sojourner Truth & Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Jordan Harrod
◼ Andrew Johnson: Spectacles
◼ Amendments of the Constitution: Legal Eagle

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Women's Suffrage and Seneca Falls | Nebula Original

Extra History — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:00:01 +0000

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In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott joined a group of women, largely Quakers and mostly abolitionists, who gathered at Seneca Falls, New York, to debate over, modify, and ultimately sign a statement to the world: The Declaration of Sentiments.

This statement was no mere open letter but a series of specific grievances against the legal and social inequalities women face and demanded be corrected. But, one demand was considered so radical that many of the women attending would refuse to support it. For the first time, the American Women’s Rights movement was setting its sights on one of the most controversial demands of all: obtaining the right to vote.

Guest Readers:
◼ Narrator of The Declaration of Sentiments: Amy Muller
◼ Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Lindsay Ellis
◼ Lucretia Mott: Be Kind Rewind
◼ Frederick Douglas: F.D Signifier
◼ Newspaper Reporter 1: Legal Eagle
◼ Newspaper Reporter 2: Joe Scott