Born in Massachusetts in 1820, the feminist activist and anti-slavery campaigner Susan B. Anthony grew up to become one of the most important figures in the American fight for women’s suffrage. Arrested for voting illegally in Rochester, New York in 1872, she was convicted in a notorious trial and refused to pay the fine she was subsequently handed. Over a century later, she became the first real-life woman to appear on a U.S. coin. In other words, she was something of a badass.

Rochester’s Mt. Hope Cemetery, where Anthony is buried, has long been a popular destination for American voters. But thanks to the feminist flavour of this year’s election – in which the potential first female president of the US is pitted against the walking embodiment of male privilege – more women than ever are making the pilgrimage to her grave after voting.

Women are leaving ‘I voted’ stickers on this legendary suffragist’s grave