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    • News and Features
    • Music Writing
    • Essays
    • Bite-Sized Blog
    • San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries (2023)
    • A Riff of One's Own (2021)
    • Tenacity: Heavy Metal in the Middle East and Africa (2018)
    • The Columbine Effect (2013)
    • Sacred Sonoma (2007)
    • Beloved (2007)
    • Read the Music (2006)
    • Dream Brother (1999)
    • Poetry (2005-present)
  • San Francisco's Magdalen Asylum
  • Dead Reckoning podcast
  • Press
  • Shop
  • Sensitive Enough
  • Editing Services
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Bertha Moreton and Josephine Lauter /July 4, 2022 by Beth Winegarner

Today in 1889, Bertha Moreton and Josephine Lauter, two SF teens who were possibly sex workers, were sent to the Magdalen Asylum. The @sfchronicle called them "Bad Girls" and claimed that the upset they displayed in court was just for show. pic.twitter.com/Ey2gKRBik5

— Beth Winegarner (@bethwinegarner) July 4, 2022
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