A group of Maori women dress reformers
1906
(Source: latinamerican-worldfeminist)
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What you will find here are mostly pictures of women doing all kinds of things. The goal is to show the reality of women's lives.
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It [prostitution] is justified by tradition as in the frequently uttered nostrum that it is the ‘oldest profession’. Slavery is old too but seldom justified by its longevity. The feminist historian Gerda Lerner writes most usefully about the way in which brothel prostitution in the ancient Middle East originated in the enslavement of captives in warfare, as a way of tidily dealing with surplus women slaves (Lerner,1987).
Schools have classes called “women’s studies,” and “African-American literature” because the standard for existence set by white men has yet to be rescinded in this age. “Normal” history is the history of a certain class of white people, from the perspective of men. All the other histories are precisely that: other.
Two women with a basket, ca. 1937-38
photo from Archivio di Stato Bellinzona
Birth control advocate Margaret Sanger has her mouth covered in protest of not being allowed to talk about birth control in Boston. 17 Apr 1929.
Bangla women in Dhaka after liberation. Note the rifles, women played a major role in the Mukti Bahini (“Liberation Army”).
Photos are credited to Brig S. S. Kanbargimath (Retired)
Audre Lorde, Meridel Lesueur, Adrienne Rich 1980 by K. Kendall on Flickr.
Audre Lorde, Meridel Lesueur, Adrienne Rich 1980
(Source: futurefutures)
A woman attacks a nazi in a demonstration in Växjö, 1985 (Sweden). She was a Polish woman who had been in a concentration camp during the second world war. Minutes later, thousands of anti-nazis chased the nazis away
Sara Carter (banjo) and her cousin Maybelle (auto harp), ca. 1919, about eight years before the first recordings of the Carter Family.
(Source: ianfitzgerald)
Impossible! from “A Room of One’s Own” by Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Cora Graves and another woman are pictured seated in a bedroom, stringing tobacco bags.
Reidsville, North Carolina, 1939
Carleton Stutz and Peter A. Maxfield, photographers
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Made some chinese dinner with veggies and tofu. Yumm.
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Perfect “two” ingredient cookies!!
1/3 cup oats, 3/4 banana! I also added cinnamon and dark chocolate chips, and its hard to tell in the pic but they are tinted pink...
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“But homophobia and Lesbophobia are as different from each other as men are from women. And like men and women, they are not interchangeable. Homophobia means fear of...”
