Rise Up

The sarcasm of today's "You Don't Say" from L.K. Hanson on the Monday Star Tribune op-ed page was inspirational:

I've never heard of Nellie McClung before today. Yes, I'm a Canada-ignorant American.

It sounds as though she didn't spend much time sitting around being resigned, writing 16 books, helping women get the right to vote and hold the highest public offices in Canada, holding public office herself, and serving on the board of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She died in 1951 at the age of 77.

Like many white feminists of her era, McClung was also a eugenicist who advocated sterilization of "mental defectives" and First Nations women. I acknowledge that about her, and reject it.