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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-02T15:00:00.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "Herstory",
    "Justice & Law",
    "National",
    "'Founding Feminists' Series",
    "Artificial Intelligence or AI",
    "Black Women",
    "Equal Rights Amendment",
    "Feminist250",
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  "textContent": "Two hundred and fifty years ago, a small group of men declared that “all men are created equal,” casting a vision of liberty that has shaped the American imagination ever since.\n\nYet even as they debated freedom in Philadelphia, women were writing, organizing, governing, resisting and insisting on their place within the nation taking form. Some, like Mary Katherine Goddard, literally set their names in print; others, like Phillis Wheatley, wrote themselves into intellectual existence against a backdrop of enslavement and doubt. Still others left their mark through acts of refusal and flight, choosing freedom when the republic would not grant it.\n\nA new series, Founding Feminists—launching at the start of Women’s History Month—unfolds over two months, twice a week. On this semiquincentennial of the United States, _Ms._ turns to these “founding feminists” not as anachronistic heroines, but as architects of an unfinished democratic project. There is no nation without women at its core—no democracy without their labor, intellect, resistance and imagination.\n\nFrom Haudenosaunee matrilineal governance, to Black women’s freedom-seeking acts, from revolutionary manifestos to quiet domestic rebellions, our **Founding Feminists** series reexamines the past to illuminate our present moment of backlash and possibility.\n\nIf the Declaration of Independence set forth a promise of equality, it was women—across race, class, sexuality and nationality—who pressed the nation to live up to it.\n\nTwo hundred and fifty years later, their questions remain ours: What does freedom truly mean, and who gets to claim it?\n\nThe post America’s Founding Feminists: Rewriting America’s Origin Story appeared first on Ms. Magazine.",
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