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fyblackwomenart · 9 months
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"SZA, Muslim Women Are Everything" by Fahmida Azim on INPRNT
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city-of-ladies · 24 days
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"In the mid-1700s, a seawoman in Iceland named Björg Einarsdóttir composed a poem teasing men on her boat for their weak rowing:
Do row better my dear man, Fear not to hurt the ocean. Set your shoulders if you can Into harder motion.
Einarsdóttir was not only a talented poet but an excellent fisher. She often caught more fish than other crew members, and people believed that her ability to lure the animals was supernatural. When she was dying, she reportedly passed on this uncanny skill to a farmer by writing a poem about him catching trout.
Her work at sea may seem unusual. After all, fishing is generally considered a man’s job. But recent work by an American researcher, Margaret Willson, suggests that Einarsdóttir was one of hundreds of Icelandic women in the 18th and 19th centuries who braved towering waves and icy waters to catch fish. Willson’s team combed through historical archives and publications to gather examples ranging from a female captain who led crews made up entirely of women, to expectant mothers who rowed late into pregnancy.
The sea “wasn’t a male space,” says Willson, a cultural anthropologist at the University of Washington in Seattle and a former seawoman. “It was not a feminist act in any way for them to go to sea.” It was just part of everyday life."
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academia-cafe · 2 years
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I wanna be the woman that everyone stares at whether out of love, hate, or envy. I wanna be the woman who goes for walks every morning with her dog before stopping to grab a quick coffee at a small, cozy café. I wanna be the woman the barista falls in love with at first sight even though I'm a hot, sweaty mess. I wanna be the woman servers want to return every night just to see her. I wanna be the woman who goes to a fine-dinning restaurant by herself because she doesn't need anyone to treat her; she treats herself. I wanna be that woman.
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gramarobin · 10 months
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shelandsorcery · 4 months
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She’s done!
As part of my new left-handed life I challenged myself to do a standard fantasy character illustration; I produced this through a few hours a night of work over two weeks; I'd guess there's maybe 30 hours of work here total. Nowhere near my usual speed, but a result I am certainly happy with!
Shoutout specifically to procreate and @maxulichney's glorious retro and watercolour brushes; they make messy markmaking fun again!
Gonna print myself a copy for my wall; she is now my patron saint of Relearning Skills with the Non-Dominant Hand Through Sheer Endurance and Liberal Use of the Undo Command.
Fun fact: to sign it, I zoomed in till the signature could fill my 12"ipad screen, wedged the pen into my tightly braced right hand, and used my whole arm to draw it. That's right, folks, my shoulder's still got it!
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Mira
I'm watching Monsters Abound play 40k Space Marine. I have not been shy about my general ambivalence toward astartes, but I was curious. And I was rewarded:
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Lieutenant Miranda 'Mira' Nero of the Astra Militarum. Instant crush.
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erablaise-blog · 7 months
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I'm sure there is a deeply routed psychological trauma behind the reason for my attraction towards fictional women of authority who could and would kill me, but I think it's probably better if I don't know what it is
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dead-end-street · 1 year
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USERDRAMAS EVENT 05: WOMEN
Who do you think will end up living with me forever? It's me. Myself. So you need to take good care of yourself and fix yourself whenever something breaks. I really want to get along with myself. I don't want to love myself too much, but I don't want to be too hard on myself either. I think it's important to work hard on keeping a good balance.
↳ Shin Se-kyung as Oh Mi-joo in RUN ON (2021)
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kaiiverse · 2 months
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My Babies!! 🫶🏼🤟🏼💞😭💘🥰
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darkcrowprincess · 1 year
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Lets all remember the one true fact, the most powerful characters in the avatar universe(atla, legend of korra, the whole universe from the first avatar) are all females!
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And don't give me some bullshit about Aang being the avatar. Taking someones bending away forever doesn't make someone powerfull. Considering by legend of korra everyone basically can do it it seems. Or waterbenders. It's never explained. But aang is not that strong, Korra and Kyoshi are way stronger. Also Aang probably refuses to blood bend. He can be beat by someone who knows blood bending. Last thing to add the only reason the avatar is so powerful in the first place and even exists is the female spirit/being of light Raava. So in a way yes the most powerful being in a way is also female. Cause the avatar wouldn't be able to exist with out her. Thr glow, the power, the knowledge of all the past lives is all thinks to Raava. A female being.
@arielfan1956 @thevictorianghost
(Don't like don't read. Post hate and I'll block you)
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kateknowsdramas · 6 months
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Warrior Queen Taealha
Arthdal Chronicles: The Sword of Aramun
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frances-and-the-moon · 11 months
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The "Femme Fatale" trope and parallelism between Korean dramas and Italian cinema
So I was watching The Devil Judge and I noticed an interesting parallelism with an Italian movie I watched when I was a child.
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Sources: "The Devil Judge" (2021) ft. Jang Young-Nam, South Korea "Malèna" (2000) dir. Giuseppe Tornatore ft. Monica Bellucci, Italy
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city-of-ladies · 2 months
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(Photo: Carmen Escobar Carrio)
Juana Galán - Heroic guerrillera 
When the French invaded Spain during the Peninsular War, some women were determined to resist. Among them was Juana Galán (1787-1812), the daughter of a prosperous tavern keeper. 
On June 6, 1808, a column of 1,000 enemy troops attacked the town of Valdepeñas. Juana rallied the townswomen under her command. They manned the windows and threw boiling water and oil at the enemy.
Juana went to the street armed with a club. She reportedly pulled several French soldiers from their horses and dispatched them with a blow to the head. The townspeople’s fierce resistance forced the French to retreat and never return.
Juana didn’t live to see the end of the war. She died in 1812 while giving birth to her daughter. Her legacy lives on and she was made a local heroine and a symbol of resistance. She now has her own monument in Valdepeñas.
Like Juana, other women fought in desperate situations or during riots, sometimes with improvised weapons. In 1809, an unnamed woman armed with a sword rallied the inhabitants of Penafiel (northern Portugal) and led them in battle against the raiders. In 1811, María Marcos, a tavern keeper from La Palma del Condado, played a key role in repelling a small group of French soldiers. 
There were also cases of women involved in guerrilla warfare. The Catalan Somatén, a paramilitary defense organization, had female members such as María Escoplé, Magdalena Bofill, Margarita Tona, María Catalina and Catalina Martín. Francisca de la Puerta reportedly fought in Extremadura and commissioned the Junta of her province for permission to form her own guerrilla band. 
Wanting to avenge her father and brother, Martina de Ibaibarriaga Elorriagafora disguised herself as a man and led a guerrilla band until she gained a commission in the Spanish army. An unnamed woman was given the command of a troop by the Junta of Molina de Aragón in 1809. A British officer also mentioned women serving with bands of irregulars as active combatants. 
For more heroines of the Peninsular War, see Agustina de Aragón. 
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Further reading
Esdaile Charles J., Women in the Peninsular War
Sheldon Natasha, “Juana Galan: A Spanish Heroine of the Peninsula War”
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caramelskinnedking · 5 months
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I dont know about y'all but I've not been able to get the image of Valkyrie in that beautiful and well-tailored three-piece suit out of my head all weekend.
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petti-fog · 10 months
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Just some more sketching and style exploration.
Commissions open, if anyone is interested :)
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george-weasleys-girl · 5 months
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