Mr. Michael Helquist
Michael Helquist is a writer, historian, and journalist. His biography of Portland physician, political activist, and lesbian feminist Marie Equi – Marie Equi: Radical Politics & Outlaw Passions was named a 2016 Stonewall Honor Book by the American Library Association. Helquist received the 2016 Joel Palmer Award from the Oregon Historical Society for his article “Criminal Operations’: The First Fifty Years of Abortion Prosecutions in Portland, 1875-1925” published in the Oregon Historical Quarterly.
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Marie Equi (1872-1952)
Dr. Marie Equi was a fiercely independent Oregon physician who was engaged in the political turmoil and social change of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She was a fearless advocate for woman's suffrage, reproductive rights, labor rights, and free speech, and her raucous protests against imperialism and war …
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