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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I literally can’t function normally. I need some development, or I will go crazy imagining a life together, and the more I imagine that, the worse the potential disappointment will become.
While the quality of their hints themselves might not be very reliable, I think they’ve sent a critical mass amount of potential hints, of varying kinds at that. I’d love to list them but they’re way too context-dependent. (yes, I made a list 🤡)
I know it’s easy to get illusions whenever someone vaguely attractive who you have things in common with is nice to you, but there are plenty of people like that, and those are not this nice this often this consistently. I’ve seen my crush be impolite with other people, which tells me it’s not that they’re just nice to everyone all the time.
I already asked their slightly less close friend for advice, and they were helpful, but I think they underestimate the amount of time me and my crush have chatted, so the friend doubts my sincerity.
The next time I see their closer friend (the one who I suspect is already trying to wingman us), I want to ask them if they have any objections, or advice, if I’m lucky. I will probably chicken out once or fifty times, but I really do feel it’s the only reasonable way forward. If any of you my lovely fans want to remind me occasionally that I won’t dare make progress otherwise, I would appreciate it greatly.
There is still the risk that I completely misread the situation and not only make a fool out of myself, but more importantly, make my crush uncomfortable in what should be a safe space, which is why I definitely must talk to their friend first.
everytime you write “crushposting” I think “cushposting” and I become excited for news on
tbh despite the weirdness of being in the same org i think you should just talk to them directly about this, taking extra care to make them feel safe saying no if that’s where they’re at and to make sure they know you care about them as a person regardless of outcome and to have them feel safe that you won’t push any boundaries. you’re gonna drive yourself insane trying to read tea leaves like this. like someone previously said, idt the DSA Sex Pest would have the same trepidations you do so i trust you’d handle things respectfully.
that said ive gotten in trouble having “shit where i eat” romances blowing up and ending poorly and bringing down quality of life for everyone within the vicinity so what do i know
Date?
Forget talking to the friend. Talk to the crush. “You are cool. We should hang out more.” If they light up you say “I would like to kiss you”