The barbed-wire enclosed camp for migratory workers at the Cannon Canning Company of Bridgeville, Delaware
July 1940
Jack Delano, photographer
thruflowheater
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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women's history
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).
Jordan. Near Amman. 1969. Palestinian woman and children in refugee camp of Baka.
(Source: collectivehistory)
A Soviet girl-child looks on as an american photographer takes her picture for Life magazine, November 1960.
(Source: themafucage2)
jewish resistance women, warsaw ghetto uprising, may 1943.
always resist.
never forget.
I’m on a Jewish kick right now.
(Source: onegirlrhumba)
Soviet woman from the Army, one of the Defenders of Sevastopol, June 21st, 1942.
A Republican militiawoman trains on the beach outside Barcelona, Spanish Civil War, August 1936
Beryl Hope
Roza Georgiyevna Shanina, a female sniper during World War II, credited with 54 confirmed kills, including 12 snipers during the Battle of Vilnius…
(Source: village-idiocy)
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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...”
