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BRIEF: Spokane Feminist Forum to have 4th of July celebration at Boots

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FeministForumLogoContempKellyThe Spokane Feminist Forum will celebrate the Fourth of July from 5-6:30 p.m., at Boots Bakery with readings from the community of selected poems, speeches and letters from women from American history who helped make freedom possible.

Those wishing to participate can read a suffragist speech, a letter from the turbulent years preceding 1776, or a civil rights manifesto. Participants will have five minutes. There will be a sign up sheet and dressing up is encouraged. 

 

 

Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Assistant Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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