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January 27th in Women's History
1870: Kappa Alpha Theta established at Indiana Asbury College, the 1st Greek-letter fraternity for women. http://ht.ly/3Lkef
1888: Hedwig Vicki Baum, German-born novelist known for her novel Menschen im Hotel (“People at a Hotel) that became the film Grand Hotel.
1944: Mairead Corrigan, Irish peace activist & co-founder of Community of Peace People, 1976 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, born.
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January 26th in Women's History
1826: Julia Dent Grant, First Lady to Ulysses S. Grant, author of ‘The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant’, born
1831: Mary Mapes Dodge, author of ‘Hans Brinker or, the Silver Skates,’ editor of St. Nicholas’s Magazine, born.
1833: Elisabet Ney, German-born sculptor influential in the early TX art scene, co-founder of the Univ. of TX Art Dept, born.
1872: Julia Morgan, 1st woman licensed...
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January 25th in Women's History
1810: Clarina Nichols, activist & speaker for abolitionist, temperance, & women’s rights movemenst, born. http://ht.ly/3JNGO
1851: Abolitionist & reformer Sojourner Truth addressed the 1st Black Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio.
1858: Queen Victoria’s daughter, Princess Victoria, married as Mendelssohn’s Wedding March played, starting a custom.
1871: Maud Park, suffragist...
39 years ago, on this date in 1973, the Supreme Court handed down the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in the US, with restrictions. Thank you to the thousands of activists — those whose names we know and whose names we don’t — who fought the cases, who spoke their truth to demystify abortion, who marched, who helped women find safe procedures and helped those...
MISSING: Azaria Owens from Brooklyn, NY →
sequin-stuffed:
Her name is Azaria, she is very friendly and very talkative - 7 years old, natural, brown skin, average build, about 3.5 ft tall.
She has been missing since 11am on January 14, 2012.
She may be wearing a pink coat and pink book bag; she probably has dolls, books, and cookies in this bag. She has multicolored bubbles and click-clack barrettes in her hair. The design is...
Jessica Valenti: Why The Washington Post's new... →
jessicavalenti:
Here’s the thing: I will always want more women’s (and feminist) voices in the mainstream media, particularly in politics. There’s an overwhelming byline gender gap and that needs to change. But The Washington Post’s new lady blog, “She the People,” is not a step in the right direction….
December 2011
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“The struggle is eternal. The tribe increases. Somebody else carries on.”
– —Ella Baker, civil rights organizer and driving force behind SNCC, born on this date in 1903 and gone on this date in 1986. She was a champion of young activists, earning the nickname “Fundi,” a Swahili word meaning a person who teaches a craft to the next generation.
Students Active for Ending Rape: WE'RE AT 97%!... →
safercampus:
Today is the last day of our IndieGoGo fundraising campaign. Thank you for all your help getting us to 97% of our goal of raising $7,000 to give students a SAFER campus! Will you help us get to 100%? Please share and contribute. Every little bit makes a difference.
About SAFER
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November 2011
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Why it's transgender, and not transgendered. →
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“Most guys, we can recite all of The Godfather, we can recite all of Caddyshack,...”
– Aaron Sorkin (follow and join the #LadiesinFilm tag on Twitter to prove him wrong with quotable lines from women across film history. It also occurs to me that if there is any truth to this, Mr. Sorkin, it’s because dudes like you have absolutely no idea how to write for women and dudes like...
“This tribe called “Women of Color” is not an ethnicity. It is one of the...”
– Aurora Levins Morales, My Name is This Story from Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios. (via art-is-the-word)
Exactly.
(via blackfeminismlives)
Jessica Valenti: #mencallmethings →
jessicavalenti:
Twitter is aflutter with a new hashtag, #mencallmethings, where people (mostly feminists and women-identified folks) are sharing online harassment stories. It’s not pretty.
Online harassment is a subject close to my heart (unfortunately) - it’s something I’ve written about at length and…
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October 2011
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Taxpayer-Funded ‘Crisis Pregnancy Centers’ Tell... →
Awesome Student Halloween Anti-Racism Campaign
saucy-sarah:
There’s more:
Students Teaching About Racism in Society is a Student Org at Ohio University. I’m the President, any questions… MESSAGE ME! :)
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“i was cold / i was burnin up / a child
& endlessly weavin garments for the...”
– Ntozake Shange, Black feminist playwright and poet, born on this date - 10/18 - in 1948.
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“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. It is self-preservation, and that is...”
– Audre Lorde (via shana—e)
“Not everyone with a womb has to have a baby the same way everyone with vocal...”
– Gloria Steinem, on Chelsea Lately (seriously)
Women's Media Center Social Media Awards! →
Today the Women’s Media Center announced 27 nominees for a social media award and I’m honored to be nominated alongside 26 amazing women of the interwebs. I can’t in good conscience ask you to vote for me over any one of these badass women - many of whom are personal friends - but I do ask that you go, check out each woman’s awesome work, and cast a vote, any vote, for...
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AfroLez®femcentric Perspectives: DSK AND JUSTICE:... →
afrolez:
DSK (Dominique Strauss Kahn) AND JUSTICE: THE POLITICS OF GETTING OFF IN A RAPE CULTURE
CONNECT NYC and Columbia Law School’s Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies and their Center for Gender and Sexuality Law are hosting an Open Forum on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011 at…
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“Many White reproductive activists cannot relate to the experiences of Black...”
– A Forced Eugenics Survivor Speaks Her Truth (via squeetothegee)