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Restore women to cultural memory, political analysis, spiritual awareness, globally. Founder, Suppressed Histories Archives:
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"Last year, when Sarah walked into her weekly rape crisis support group in Brighton and saw a male sitting there, she felt anxious — but she had long perfected the art of suppressing her feelings to accommodate others.
“I thought, ‘It’s fine, I just won’t speak this week,’
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Frieda Billinfante, Jewish lesbian member of the Dutch resistance against the Nazis. She forged "Aryan" identity cards and blew up the building where state documents were kept, making it impossible to verify them.
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#IStandWithReemAlsalem
who advocates for rights of girls and women at the UN. She speaks for millions. We cannot allow them to hound her from her position, as women's rights are more contested than they have been for 50 years, from many directions. Please show your support.
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@thehookprincess
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her father is her enemy, cares more about the husband's dominance than his own daughter's happiness.
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Woman giving birth standing, supported by other women, 11th century CE, at the Airavetheesvarar Temple, Darasuram, Tamilnadu, South India. 🧵
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'Thus “women’s studies” turned into “gender studies”; the “feminist perspective” was converted into a “gendered lens”; “sex roles” became “gender roles,” suddenly playful and performative rather than oppressive. “Male violence against women” was euphemized into “gender-based
"This even-tempered clarity, so characteristic of
@laura_lecuona
's writing, is what makes Gender Identity: Lies and Dangers an ideal book for introducing the uninitiated and under-informed to the radical feminist critique of transgenderism."
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Respect to Jane Clare Jones for her dedication to feminism, and her hard work founding The Radical Notion magazine and the Institute for Feminist Thought. Because academia allows no place for analysis of patriarchy, so she has made a place. Brava Jane.
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The feminist writer Ding Ling was born in 1904, named Jiang Bingzhi. She "emerged from an obscure rural backwater to become one of China's foremost writers and her country's most articulate champion of women's rights...
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@AlanWilkinsonNZ
@Serena_Partrick
Old pattern of patriarchy. Women putting women last, and acting out "Take her, not me."
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@ReduxxMag
Tampons are not "gender roles," but a method of soaking up blood from female reproductive cycles.
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Anarcha, one of 10 enslaved women that J. Marion Simms surgically experimented on, without anesthesia. J. C. Hallman wrote Say Anarcha: A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women's Health. She, Betsey, Lucy, others were forced to go under his knife.
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"Survivors’ Network told Sarah that a single-sex group would be 'problematic as we do not police gender.'"
But they do police women traumatized by rapists, and force them out.
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They are not "Venus" figurines. The language we use matters, and images matter very much. Yet archaeologists and academics persist in reducing them to the stereotype of "fertility idol," flattening out their cultural and spiritual significance. Article.
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@RealAshleyLuna
@womaniiwomaninc
Prisons don't have single cells, you share with another person. They're quite small, with no privacy. When males are admitted, some women are forced to share cells with them, involuntarily.
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Lykian women advanced on the invader Bellerophon while exposing their vulvas. “the women, pulling up their garments, came to meet him; and when he, for shame, retreated towards the sea again, the wave also, it is said, went back with him.” [Plutarch, Moralia, 248 a-b]
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In this case, even a woman who spoke up in private. Silencing and persecuting women has to end. They didn't do this to men, like Alice Cooper, and they backed off Carlos Santana. But out with the witches' bridle when women dissent.
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Greeks called it Anasyrma, “skirt-lifting.” Hellenic art on armor, temples, and this Etruscan chariot showed Gorgons baring their vulvas and sticking out their tongues as a way of warding off danger and enemies.
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Dancing women painted on a neolithic potsherd of Rayy, Iran, before 3000 bce. Community, ceremony.
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Also, how they look away from epidemic levels of femicide, rape, battering, trafficking, and other forms of violence against women. But since men see breasts as sex objects, they consider it obscene to uncover them in public, to feed a child, the biological purpose of mammals.
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Book is done! Made a spiral-bound proof copy for final check before sending to printer. I output it to 8x11—easier to proof. Book will be 6 x 9 perfect bound, 388 pp. Preorders will come only after I have a printer, reconfigure Veleda Press website & set up POD for int'l orders.
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#LesbianVisibilityWeek
Me 50 years ago at our dyke house in west Berkeley, with a friend who was a lesbian mom on the run. Leather jacket courtesy of Value Village, where we got our clothes.
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France In the 16th century Rabelais recounted a popular story about a woman who put the devil to flight by showing him her vulva. The story also appears in the 18th century Fables by Jean de La Fontaine.
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Sheila-na-gigs in Ireland, Britain, France, occasionally Italy, had this apotropaic power. They were often set over doorways or window lintels, and also on castle walls in Ireland to ward off danger. Some were ancient, freestanding, pre-Christian scultures, many set near water.
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@glosswitch
It was not a thing on the global scale of human sexuality, and then came gonzo porn. Which normalized it, to the point of making young women feel it's part of what sex is (along with slapping). Normalized, not "normal."
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This rock painting is known as the "huntresses of Tin Abenhar," Tassili-n-Ajjer, SE Algeria. It's very old, as early as 4000 bce. First woman wields a blade and a lance, the second may carry a bow.
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@rusticfem
Old females play a crucial part in keeping the young alive among primates; non-dominant males help too. See Mothers and Others by Sarah Hrdy.
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Ireland: During a long inter-clan feud before WWI, men armed with clubs and pitchforks descended on a house in County Galway. A lone woman came out and confronted them, raising her skirts above her head, and put them to flight. An eyewitness reported this in the Irish Times 1977.
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Women who embroider their protest, their self defense and bear witness to the wrongs committed against them. Lorina Bulwer, placed in a workhouse at Great Yarmouth at the age of 55, documented her anger and indignation in thread. A thread>
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@acluohio
@EqualityOhio
@LGBTCleveland
@HRC_OH
@Honesty4OhioEd
@ProChoiceOH
@abortionfundOH
@EquitasHealth
@TransEquality
@TheOhioChannel
Utter gaslighting. Male sexed advantage is documented fact. You don't care about female athletes.
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@alondiamant
@ryangrim
Gaza is more of a collective prison, where Palestinian refugees are corralled, and cannot come and go. Not even by sea.
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@genderisbollox
Same here in San Francisco. Attempts to hound lesbians out of the SF Dyke March; founders aghast. Exclusion in the name of "inclusion."
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Stunning find: woman's burial at Valencina, S. Spain, 3200–2200 bce: "the most socially prominent person was not male, as previously thought, but female... a leading social figure at a time where no male attained a remotely comparable social position.
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@ReduxxMag
"He knocked the woman to the ground and beat her with a bottle". No passive voice concealing male violence.
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Please note that, as of old, they omitted the clitoris, organ of female sexual pleasure. Speaks volumes on the sexism of their framework: they define female sexuality from a male chauvinist standpoint.
I thought it couldn't get more demeaning than uterus-owner, but Teen Vogue proved me wrong 😭😂
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Bao Gu (personal name Qianguang) was a famous doctor, herbalist, and alchemist of the Jin Dynasty (circa 309-363 CE). She was proficient in healing through moxibustion, and the first [recorded!] female moxibustionist in the history of Chinese medicine.
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Herbs, Knots & Contraception: "Early medieval writers show that women used herbal medicine + witchcraft to control their own fertility + childbearing. Bishops in France, Spain, Ireland, England, Germany set canons forbidding women to use potions or ceremony for birth control. /1
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Dr. Jackie Anderson, lesbian feminist professor of philosophy at Roosevelt University, Chicago.
#LesbianVisibilityWeek
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If you dare to speak of material oppression of the female sex, you will be excommunicated and cast into outer darkness. We will call you right wing, despite your decades of left feminist activism, and you will have no right of response. Exclusion in the name of "inclusion." Amen
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“I am having treatment for breast cancer and am boiling with rage. It’s incomprehensible how they can equate a woman who has had a mastectomy with a male bodied person.”
“Do not dare equate my lived experience as a woman with someone whose lived experience is as a man.”
@RosieKayDance
@helenstaniland
The Scottish Government's equality impact assessment for GRA reform cited a paper that argued women's objections to seeing male bodies in female only spaces were akin to objections to seeing women who had had mastectomies for breast cancer.
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This picture is from our anniversary 7 years ago, but today we celebrate our 42nd (with Vietnamese crispy shrimp with onions and ginger, and sauteed vegies. (Didn't take a picture b/c I'm ailing; another time.)
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immediately and went back to their villages.” An old man explained the historical tradition: "Women had the right to stop war by the custom of that time. The two sides had to stop fighting if a woman of either side waves her skirt and calls for an armistice.” /2
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The wound? Restigmatizing lesbians and redefining us as "same-gender attracted." (what about butch & femme?). Kicking us off dating apps for saying "females only." Teaching young lesbians they're "bigots" for rejecting sex with males, "vagina fetishist." The verbal abuse alone /1
“What's the wound to lesbianism, if the category of women is expanded to include transwomen? What’s the wound?”
😡 🤯
Judith Butler needs help w/a question
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Mexico: The women of Tlatelolco broke the alliance with Tenochtitlan. They “flaunted their backsides at the enraged Tenocha visitors," in direct affront; the women, "detested the military alliance with the Aztecs that took their husbands and sons away from them.”
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@criminalplaza
@cache_pas
And in the US, the rape kits often go untested, meaning all that added distress and suffering are for nothing.
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The Táin Bo Cuailnge tells a similar story about Cúchullain. His uncle sent out 150 women against him “utterly naked, all at the same time, and the leader of the women before them, Scandlach, to expose their nakedness and their boldness to him.” He lowered his eyes, overcome.
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Not "people," men. "Choking, medically known as sexual strangulation, has been experienced by a staggering 58% of female college students, according to a recent study. ... shown to cause alarming damage to the brain — which could be permanent."
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India: Even representations of vulvas can have this danger-warding effect. South Indians made atropopaic pots (called “exceedingly obscene” by an English observer), whitewashed and placed them in grain fields and on house tops to protect from the evil eye. [Dravidian Gods, 1913]
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Hard to believe that some feminists are embracing sociobiology and the idea that male domination is an inescapable result of evolution, therefore yay for the nuclear family and male protection racket. Without a shred of historical perspective!
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@FondOfBeetles
Prisons in the US have refused to provide lifesaving care for women with cancer and all kinds of other serious diseases. Guards leave women moaning in their cells to die of ruptured organs. Delay or never allow them needed surgeries. That's the real scandal.
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China. A nursemaid of writer Lu Xun told him how she and other women stood in rows on the city walls and uncovered their vulvas to ward off invaders, to prevent them from firing guns and cannons, or make the weapons blow up. Women did this in the 1774 rebellion of Wang Lun too.
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2 other women threw off their shirts, which restored calm. They put their clothes back on; the police took their tent and things. A woman explained, “In Kikuya tradition, they were cursing the men, saying, ‘I have no respect for you. I wish I had never given birth to you.’” /3
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@elizamondegreen
@HJoyceGender
sterilization is not the worst harm; in many cases it is disabiling damage to bone and neurological development. sex hormones are about more than fertility, they are body development!
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Even in the late Manchu dynasty, “the most effective deterrant against beseigers was considered to be menstrual blood dropped on them from above.” [Dexter, Miriam Robbins, and Mair, Victor, pp. 113, 116-17]
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This meme: the women weren't wearing fancy lowcut ballgowns with long hair streaming in the wind. Their heads were shaved, their bruised and tortured bodies were barely covered by filthy shifts after spending months in a dungeon, raped by jailors.
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Igbo Women’s War, Nigeri: women stripped off their clothing and put on leaves and ritual regalia to protest colonial oppression, challenging abuses by chiefs collaborating with British attempts to tax women. Walking thru the towns they demanded, “Was your mother counted?” /1
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Hate this euphemism for "male violence," that was adopted by NGOs and govt agencies alike to avoid naming the men who commit violence against women every minute of the day. Don't cover it up, say it out loud.
Can we stop using the term “gender-based violence” for sexual violence when it is inflicted upon women by men (which is the dynamic in the vast majority of cases). It completely obscures the nature of violent sexual offences & the motivations of violent sex offenders.
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You can be conned into believing in universal male domination if you were never told about the gantowisas, governing female elders of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), or the matrilines encoded in the Great Law of Peace. (See comments)
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For those not in the know, Josh Hawley is one of the extreme-right insurrectionists, and ADF is a far right fundamentalist org which is hot to use genderism as a wedge issue to ban abortion and restore male headship.
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According to their rescript, any woman who dared overstep the boundaries of male privilege in order to rule, travel the world, go to war, or enter any male only turf must "really" have been a man. The greatest woman pharoah! Utterly retrograde and sexist AF.
During
#LGBTHistoryMonth
we are highlighting notable LGBT+ figures from history. Hatshepsut (1507 BC - 1458 BC) fifth Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, one of the most successful pharaohs in history. born a woman, used female pronouns but presented herself as a King
#LGBTHM19
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Catalunya: A proverb says that "The sea calms down if it sees a woman's cunt." (La mar es posa bona si veu el cony d'una dona). The related English word cunt did not become obscene until the 16th century, and today is used abusively more often than not.
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Philippines: Kalinga women protested a hydroelectric dam project in Luzon. They took off their sarongs at a signal and thrashed male workers with them. They removed survey tools, guns, and the men’s clothes, even socks. The men hid til dark, then furtively sneaked home. /1
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Iran: Plutarch relates that when the Persians were losing a battle against the Medes, they began to retreat, but the women caused them to return to battle by raising their skirts. Then the Persians prevailed.
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Vanatinai island SW Pacific had a similar custom: by taking off her outer skirt, a woman signals war or peace, or protects a captive enemy. Vanatinai, NE of Australia, has been described as one of the most egalitarian societies on Earth today. It is matrilineal and matrilocal.
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Saameland: A Lapp woman lifted her skirts to a bear to make it go away. [Dexter and Mair, 113] Russians told similar stories. In 16th century north Africa, it was lions who ran away at this sight. [Blackledge]
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“A cultural taboo—not to lay eyes or hands on women… So they knew that their men would be disarmed immediately if they were in front of women who were naked.” The female elders spoke out for “the land which is sacred and beloved, from whose womb spring our Kalinga lives.” /2
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@RosieKayK2CO
Forces women to shave their pubes. They'll be wanting to pull down the back forever and ever.
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Womontown, a mostly lesbian neighborhood in Kansas City, created by intentionally buying or renting houses in a 12 block area. There's a documentary about them.
#LesbianVisibility
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Silencing Women's Speech Youtube premiere: today! Fri 15 Sept, noon LA time, 19:00 GMT. Watch live with chat. Legacies of European witch hunts: the witch's bridle, scold's bridle, branks, a head cage with metal gag, often spiked. See description at link.
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Yunnan (SW China): A big war between 2 Lisu tribes in Nujiang valley: “At noon during a major battle, a prestigious middle-aged woman of one side climbed a cliff. She took off her long skirt and waved it. She shouted to stop the battle. The two sides stopped fighting 1/
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@vagina_museum
Not "speculating about his gender": talking about how being female loomed large in Barry's life. Margaret Ann Bulkley yearned to be a doctor; females were barred from medical education. So she took the name James Barry and was thus able to get a medical degree. The rest followed.
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"Silencing Women's Speech" visual talk. Witches' bridles, ducking, exorcism. Women who speak in public, write, protest. Men's words in women's mouths. Coercion, compliance, defiance.
When women say No.
Livestream Fri 18 Aug 11am US pacific time 7 pm UK.
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Artist Michelle Browder created a monument to honor "the Mothers of Gynecology" and has led an initiative that bought the Montgomery plantation where these horrors were perpetrated, for a women's clinic and museum.
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Nūru priestess of Okinawa in ceremonial leafy headdress. Women of exceptional spiritual power are called kaminchu (神人, "spirit person"). "According to Chūzan Seikan and Chūzan Seifu, the first priestesses were the daughters of Tentei-shi, a descendant of the creation goddess >
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"On the same day, organising around the Usana, thousands of women marched through town; as one student recalls, ‘they all wore branches of green leaves, necklaces of coloured beads around the chest and the belly. Breasts and even the intimate parts were exposed. The ritual /2
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@unherd
@Docstockk
If husbands, grandparents, aunts & uncles get veto power over whether a woman has to give birth, it's game over for women's rights. Family control over our bodies is basic to patriarchy, whether forced birth, forced marriage, forbidden divorce or work. Why women risk their lives.
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Those who had left returned, and they rushed the fence, shouting, throwing stones, and confronting armed guards. They fired on the protesters, killing dozens, as many as 150, many of them shot in the back. Muthoni Nyanjiru was one of the women who were killed. /4
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Flaring Up: Feminist Opposition to Working with the Radical Right. My contribution, with visuals, puts our current situation in historical context. Why we built an autonomous women's movement; the left orientation of radical feminism / lesbian feminism >
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@aerialimp
@cambridgeunion
@Docstockk
That's a relief. What most struck me was that many speakers resorted to the most abstruse arguments without ever addressing the fact that women's speech has been historically suppressed, and even our presence in universities is recent.
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Police came and starting beating the youth in the group Release Political Prisoners and others who tried to stop them. They beat Wangari Maathai unconscious. Seeing the brutality, Ruth Wangari stripped off her clothes and came between a youth and the cop who was beating him. /2
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@Docstockk
@AmericanAnthro
@CASCATweet
Silencing and disappearing women's voices, that's all they've got.
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Mali: Mande women quelled armies by raising their robes. Nyana Jukudulaye, with 333 bells around her waist at Mande Dakajalan, stopped the fighting by neutralizing protective amulets: "when she exposed her buttocks in the direction of any battle/ The warriors would cease fire."
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Browder's amazing multimeida sculpture honoring Anarka, Lucy, and Betsey, on the land where they were tortured. An amazing act of historical transformation and artistic reclamation.
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Senegal. The Diola women’s religious group Usana acted as “a female counter-hegemonic power” in the Casamance region. They used ritual nudity in some of the first protests in a wave of popular unrest during the 1970s /1
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I wish she could have seen all the tributes when she was alive. Instead...
Sinead O’Connor was a trailblazer. Fearless, uncompromising & a superlative talent. Proved to be ahead of her time, again & again. Her passing at 56 is a devastating loss.
This snippet from an all-timer of a live rendition of Nothing Compares 2 U perfectly captures her spirit.
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