February 2012
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“What liars you men are! True strength lies in conquering one’s own...”
– Arcangela Tarabotti, Paternal Tyranny.
Reading Paternal Tyranny for an independent study and I find myself cheering Tarabotti on. I kinda love her.
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“Men’s perversity will not allow them to confess the following truth with...”
– Arcangela Tarabotti, Paternal Tyranny.
Pass the Maryland Slayer Law - House Bill 735 and... →
feministhistorian:
Can y’all do me a favor and sign the petition? More information about the bill is in the link. The bill says that if you murder someone you are not allowed any of their inheritance, which seems like common sense but its not law in MD. Please sign this for me!
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“When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet,...”
– Veronica Franco (1546-1491).
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hinduthug:
Scholar Yasmin Saikia talks about the untold stories from the 1971 Bangladesh war that led her to write Women, War and the Making of Bangladesh.
muslimwomeninhistory:
Stories of sexual violence against women during the 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh have remained untold so far. Yasmin Saikia, Professor of History and Hardt-Nickachos Chair in Peace Studies at Arizona State...
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suffrage trials: UK edition
mswyrr:
Emily Wilding Davison is best known for the tragic events of her death in 1913. During an act of protest, she was trampled to death by a horse. Someone was filming the event, and there’s actually video of it, which is rather disturbing. My point isn’t about that, though. Tonight, as I was poking around the trial transcripts of the Old Bailey, I found a trial record from 1912, a year...
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“Take no one’s word for anything, including mine—but trust your...”
– James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time.
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“I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some...”
– Margaret Sanger.
I know she is really problematic but she does say/do some good things. She did believe women should be able to chose when and if they become mothers.
(via feministhistorian)
Watchpbsthisdayinhistory:
TODAY’S BLACK HISTORY ICON: DAISY BATES
A feminist before the term was invented, Daisy Bates refused to accept her assigned place in society.
Independent Lens’ “Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock” tells the story of her life and public support of nine black students who registered to attend an all-white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, which culminated in a crisis...
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Black Herstory: Rosa Parks Did Much More than Sit... →
Rachel Griffin
As a Black feminist scholar, every February I find myself troubled by the ways that we simultaneously remember and forget women who look like me. Not that I’m satisfied with the memory of Black women every other month of the year but February–Black History Month–can be especially disappointing. I find myself wanting to rant to anyone within earshot, “Rosa Parks did more than sit...
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“When fear crawls out in the evenings from all four corners, when the winter...”
– Elsa Binder, 30 January 1942, from Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust (edited by Alexandra Zapruder)
Elsa Binder wrote eloquently and passionately about the destruction of the Jewish community in Stanislawow, Poland. Her diary was found in a ditch on the way to an execution...
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“American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more...”
– James Baldwin (via feministhistorian)
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This Day in Women's History: Maud Slye, American...
Maud Slye was an American pathologist who was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A historian of women and science wrote that Slye “‘invented’ genetically uniform mice as a research tool.” Her work focused on the heritability of cancer in mice. She was also an advocate for the comprehensive archiving of human medical records, believing that proper mate selection would help...
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This Day in Women's History: Maud Slye, American...
Maud Slye was an American pathologist who was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A historian of women and science wrote that Slye “‘invented’ genetically uniform mice as a research tool.” Her work focused on the heritability of cancer in mice. She was also an advocate for the comprehensive archiving of human medical records, believing that proper mate selection would help...
January 2012
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Letter to My Old Master →
feministhistorian:
Here is my favorite paragraph:
As to my freedom, which you say I can have, there is nothing to be gained on that score, as I got my free papers in 1864 from the Provost-Marshal-General of the Department of Nashville. Mandy says she would be afraid to go back without some proof that you were disposed to treat us justly and kindly; and we have concluded to test your sincerity by...
500 Years of Chicano History offered for FREE to... →
thenoobyorker:
velocicrafter:
Banned 500 Years of Chicano History offered free to AZ students by ABQ publisher
500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures, edited by Elizabeth Martinez and published by the SouthWest Organizing Project (SWOP), is included in a set of primarily Chicano and Native American books that have been banned by the Tucson Independent School District. The school district...
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Smithsonian and Monticello Exhibitions on... →
feministhistorian:
Two exhibitions, one at the National Museum of American History and the other at Monticello, explore Thomas Jefferson’s relationship with slavery.
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