Here’s why Wisconsin’s second-largest city is more than just a college town.
on the Capitol Square. The busy market encircles the Capitol Building on the sidewalk, providing an opportunity to pick up something fresh and local.The city is known for its progressive politics and being very LGBTQIA+ friendly. For many Madisonians, this means hearing their conservative uncles call the city The People’s Republic of Madison at Thanksgiving, or as one Republican governor, Lee Dreyfus, famously called it in 1978 “30 square miles surrounded by reality.
“I want people to think about the idea of why one body is controlled?” organizer Lili Luxe told me. “What are we teaching everyone to feel about one body versus another?”, which pays for abortion services and travel. Abortion, except for the case of the mother’s life, has been illegal in Wisconsin for more than 150 years. The 1849 law is currently being challenged in the courts.
“I have two teenage daughters,” said Luxe, “and so that is very much a big part of what keeps me going and wanting to show up. Whatever happens, I don’t want to say to myself or my children that I didn’t try.” Like many university towns, Madison’s sense of social justice is something that is readily found on signs promoting causes on street corners and in restaurant windows throughout the city.
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