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Rosa Cartagena

Rosa Cartagena is a writer at Washingtonian magazine where she covers news, arts and culture. She’s written about anti-racism efforts at Woolly Mammoth Theatre, dinosaurs in the revamped fossil hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, and the horrors of taking a digital detox. She also runs the magazine's entertainment and culture newsletter, Things to Do.

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Luisa Capetillo, left, was a labor organizer and one of Puerto Rico's foundational feminists. Right, women on Election Day in 1936, the first year all women on the island could vote.

In Puerto Rico, Women Won the Vote in a Bittersweet Game of Colonial Politics

Puertorriqueñas’ fight for suffrage shaped by class, colonialism and racism—but even today, island residents cannot vote for president