Crystal Eastman was a lawyer, journalist, feminist and socialist. She was born in Marlborough, Massachusetts in 1881. Her parents were both Congregational Church clergy and were the pastors at a church near Elmira, New York. Her brother was Max Eastman, editor of THE MASSES.
She graduated from Vassar College in 1903, received an MA in Sociology from Columbia University in 1904 and graduated second in her class from New York University Law School in 1907.
Miss Eastman’s first job was to investigate labor conditions for the Pittsburgh Survey sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation. Her report “Work Accidents and the Law” became a classic and resulted in the adoption of the first workmen’s compensation statue in the United States. She worked as an investigating attorney for the U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations during the Wilson administration.
She married Wallace Benedict and settled in Milwaukee. While there she managed an unsuccessful 1912 Wisconsin suffrage battle. Her marriage ended in divorce and she returned to New York where she helped to found the militant Congressional Union which eventually became the National Women’s Party. After the passage of the landmark 19th Amendment in 1920 which gave the right to vote to women, she and three others wrote the Equal Rights Amendment first introduced in 1923.
Eastman was a strong anti-militarist and was one of the founders of the Women’s Peace Party which is now the oldest women’s peace organization—The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. She argued against America’s going to war against Mexico in 1916, campaigned against the draft, and lobbied against American participation in World War 1. When the U.S. entered the First World War she and Roger Baldwin and Norman Thomas organized the National Civil Liberties Bureau to protect conscientious objectors. This organization would become the A.C.L.U.
In 1916 she married Walter Fuller, an English editor and anti-war activist. They lived at 71 Mt. Airy Road and had two children, Jeffrey and Annis.
She was a contributor to THE MASSES and after it stopped publication in 1917 she and her brother Max co-owned and published The Liberator, a radical journal of politics, art and literature.
At the close of World War 1 her husband, Walter Fuller, returned to England to seek work. For the next several years Crystal and her family would live part of the time in England and the rest in New York where she was blacklisted and rendered unemployable during the red scare of 1919-1920. During the following years her only paid work was for the feminist journals Time and Tide and Equal Rights.
Suffering from painful nephritis for many years, Crystal Eastman died in 1928.
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Hey, ADHD-havers and medicine knowers:
Anyone know anything about L-tyrosine? I had a pretty desperately bad time mental health/executive function wise a while back, accepted I probably have adhd or audhd, and may have bought this rando supplement off amazon on the recommendation of like 2 reddit comments (like I said, desperate.) I tried it out, without doing almost any further research, and while it isn’t like, night and day, and definitely hasn’t fixed all my problems or whatever, it does feel like it’s helping taking one a day (500mg I think). I’ve been way more productive at work when I had been struggling to do almost anything before (this wasn’t really the primary goal but I do like having money so it’s probably not the worst thing).
I guess my main question is am I going to fuck my brain chemistry up taking this daily? I don’t really trust supplements, I’m almost hoping it’s just placebo, but I know people on here know a lot more about this stuff than I do
It’s an amino acid that can be found in a lot of foods… I don’t think that should screw up your brain chemistry. Btw I’ve read that omega 3 fatty acids are also good for ADHD symptoms (plus they improve health in a lot of ways), so that might be another to add.
cool. I’m gonna keep taking them then probably. I bought a decent sized bottle
I wonder about omega 3 stuff. I’m still pretty skeptical of supplements but I could also try and get it in food too
Flax seed meal and chia seeds have a lot of omega 3s! I put both in my oatmeal along with cinnamon and raisins. Also, soybeans have some.
Obviously, fish are known for it, but oysters have a bit of fatty acids, and I think some vegans don’t consider them sentient enough to suffer.
I used to have chia for breakfast I should do that again
Nah, you’re good.
Tyrosine is an amino acid that is readily available in certain foods (those funny salt-like crystals that form on aged cheeses like parmesan are tyrosine - I literally get cravings for like parmesan or similar occasionally, and always have, and I wonder if that’s my brain actually craving tyrosine or associating parmesan with tyrosine but who knows?)
I’m sure that it is technically possible to OD on tyrosine but that would be functionally impossible unless you’re shoveling handfuls of pure stuff into your body all at once.
Tyrosine is a precursor to neurochemicals including dopamine and norepinephrine, which are usually lacking (well kinda, maybe, but I’ll spare you the boring lecture) in ADHDers.
Anecdotal reports from ADHDers are in line with what you’ve experienced - it’s subtle compared to medications, obviously, but it can give you a boost.
There’s no concerns with tyrosine as a supplement, besides the fact that supplements are so fucking unregulated (thanks, capitalism!) I give this a big green light and I’m glad that it’s working for you.
You may also find that the supplement L-dopa gives you a similar boost if L-tyrosine is working for you. You can take them together if you like. L-dopa comes with some caveats but imo it’s not on the same level as something like valerian.
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Thanks for the ping!