The depth and breadth of Iconic Femininity is perfectly illustrated by the letter A. Audre Lorde and Audrey Hepburn lived impressive lives and both became icons what it is to be a woman. Neither were women with which to trifle. Audrey Hepburn As a youth in the Netherlands in World War II Audrey Hepburn developed […]
Women of Color in the Suffrage Movement
So how many black women were present as the suffrage movement started in 1848 at Seneca Falls? Frederick Douglass was there. No black women attended that meeting for women’s rights. Sojourner Truth spoke for suffrage for women as well as equal rights for all for even though the suffrage movement more and more excluded women […]
Anonymous No Longer Needs To Be a Woman
Virginia Woolf wrote in the early 20th Century For most of history, anonymous was a woman. It seems fitting to start out a month of 26 posts, from A to Z, and centered on the topic of The Iconic Feminine with a look at feminine anonymity. This exercise is prompted by the annual April A […]
Women's Councils and Committees of the Late 19th Century
Women’s History Month tributes and mentions often gloss over the time period between the Seneca Falls gathering of 1848 and what we might be tempted to think was the resumption of the suffragist movement of the early 20th Century. Of course individual women, often the same ones, are mentioned over and over every year. But […]
Alice Guy-Blaché
Alice Guy Blaché more than deserves the first individual mention of this Women’s History Month. When I first watched this video of a movie from 1995, I almost cried. If I had not spent most of my allotment of tears in February, I would have cried from frustration and rage. Everyone who is a student […]
Women's History Month
We are celebrating Women’s History Month this year with images that inform and empower, and often, when you learn the backstory, piss you off. On social media we will be using the hashtag #WHM18 on our posts so you can follow along. […]