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Nissa Tolton
Nissa Tolton

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    • Salt Island DiariesShunned by Victorian society at every turn, these women build a society of their own
    • Good-Bye HarajukuLove, speed, capitalism, and post-truth
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  • About
  • Blog
    • Dreaming
    • LGBTQ
    • Philosophy
    • Political
  • Books
    • Salt Island DiariesShunned by Victorian society at every turn, these women build a society of their own
    • Good-Bye HarajukuLove, speed, capitalism, and post-truth
    • Principle of FlocksHistorical romance, time-travel, and the metaverse
    • Titcomb’s LettersVery particular advice to young people, from 1858 onward.
  • Short Fiction
    • Audiobooks
    • Scripts
    • Humor
    • Poetry
  • Notes on Dreaming
  • Notes on Heavens

Tag: feminism

women and girls working in a communical kitchen 19th century
  • Historical

The Shakers

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 19 June 202619 June 2026

The Shakers’ mission was to create Heaven on Earth, as a means of preparing for their celestial Heaven. Tips and tricks of the nicest people in America.

Evolution Updated for the Third Millennium
  • Philosophy

Evolution Updated for the Third Millennium

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 21 April 202610 June 2026

We are about to be subsumed by an idiocracy that only the patriarchy could have saved us from

Runaway Wives and Widows
  • Historical

Runaway Wives and Widows

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 9 April 202611 June 2026

A secret matriarchy running inside pre-industrial Europe.

A Shaker woman read to orhpans in the shade of a tree
  • Historical

Shaker Heaven

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 16 March 202619 June 2026

One gets into Heaven by being good at it, and that means practice. How Shaker society was so unlike ours, and in this most zen way!

Katharine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper
  • Historical
  • LGBTQ

Was ist Smashing?

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 8 February 202321 March 2023

Smashing ist eine sehr leidenschaftliche Freundschaft, meist zwischen zwei Frauen unterschiedlichen Alters.

Salt Island Diaries - A storm is coming
  • Books
  • Salt Island Diaries

The Salt Island Diaries

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 22 June 20222 June 2026

Shunned by Victorian society at every turn, the residents of a cliff-top boarding house create a society of their own.

factory girls
  • Historical

The Mill Girls of Lowell

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 16 February 20229 December 2024

The factory girls of the early 19th century were self-educated and wrote about capitalism at a time when Marx merely annoyed.

Victorian Women were Smashing
  • Blog
  • Historical
  • LGBTQ

Victorian Women were Smashing

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 20 July 202111 June 2026

A shadow society, ignored or denied. Mutual support networks among the disempowered. Role models and fans. Petting and kisses. Half of women.

Ophelie wolf of cape ann
  • Salt Island Diaries

The Wolf of Cape Ann

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 16 July 20211 June 2026

The first two diary entries, which describe the arrival of a feral girl at the cliff-house.

The Old New Sexy
  • Blog
  • Historical

The Old New Sexy

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 9 July 202112 June 2026

There’s a new look trending, but it’s looking a lot like the old one. Where fashion and finance blurr

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