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A Hard Day’s Work On every Indian Wars Army post was an area called, variously, soapsuds row, suds row, or sudsville, where the company laundresses lived and worked. Most mornings would find these women preparing for their day’s work. Some might be struggling with heavy buckets of water to fill their large washtubs, while others…
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Sometimes, I miss going to the laundromat. It provided a much-needed third space in an area that offers few of them. It also provided a place to think. Well, sometimes, anyway. Afternoon talk shows and sometimes the evening news played on the TV, and children often skidded around the washer and dryer banks, their screams…
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A Haunting Legacy of Abuse, Isolation, and Forced Labor The Magdalene Laundries stand as one of the darkest and most shameful chapters in Ireland’s history, a part of the country’s past that is difficult to fully grasp, but impossible to forget. For decades, thousands of women and girls were confined to these institutions, subjected to…
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