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lionheartapothecaryx · 1 year

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Gloria Steinem & Dorothy Pitman 🌻

INTERSECTIONAL WOMANISM

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mias-playground · 1 year

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'Dorothy Pitman Hughes' by Ryan Oakley

#mias-playground #art #painting #activist #dorothy pitman hughes #black tumblr

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meret118 · 2 years

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Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a pioneering Black feminist, child welfare advocate and lifelong community activist who toured the country speaking with Gloria Steinem in the 1970s and appears with her in one of the most iconic photos of the second-wave feminist movement, has died. She was 84.

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Hughes, her work always rooted in community activism, organized the first shelter for battered women in New York City and co-founded the New York City Agency for Child Development to broaden childcare services in the city. But she was perhaps best known for her work helping countless families through the community center she established on Manhattan’s West Side, offering day care, job training, advocacy training and much more.

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Laura L. Lovett, whose biography of Hughes, “With Her Fist Raised,” came out last year, said in Ms. Magazine (of which Pitman was a co-founder along with Steinem) that Hughes “defined herself as a feminist, but rooted her feminism in her experience and in more fundamental needs for safety, food, shelter and child care.”

#Heroes #Dorothy Pitman Hughes #History #Feminism #Black #Poc

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dewitty1 · 2 years

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FILE - Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes attend the Ms. Foundation for Women Gloria Awards at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York, May 1, 2014. Scott Roth/Scott Roth/Invasion/AP

Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a pioneering Black feminist, child welfare advocate and lifelong community activist who toured the country speaking with Gloria Steinem in the 1970s and appears with her in one of the most iconic photos of the second-wave feminist movement, has died. She was 84.

#Dorothy Pitman Hughes #11 december 2022 #Rest in power #Feminist activist #intersectional feminism #Feminism #Ms magazine #Blm #Black women #Black leaders #celebrity death #tw celebrity death

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wittygutsy · 3 months

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#international women's day #gloria steinem #Dorothy Pitman Hughes #raise strong women

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carmenvicinanza · 1 year

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Dorothy Pitman Hughes

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Dorothy Pitman Hughes è stata una delle più note femministe statunitensi.

Ha dato vita, insieme a Gloria Steinem alla famosa rivista Ms. Magazine. La loro amicizia e attivismo stabilirono l’equilibrio razziale nel nascente movimento delle donne.

Nata col nome di Dorothy Ridley il 2 ottobre 1938 a Lumpkin, in Georgia, aveva solo dieci anni quando suo padre venne picchiato e lasciato morto sulla soglia di casa da membri del Ku Klux Klan.

Fu in quel momento che decise che avrebbe dedicato tutti i suoi sforzi a provare a cambiare le cose per la comunità nera.

Aveva diciannove anni quando si è trasferita a New York City e con fratelli e sorelle ha dato vita alla band Roger and the Ridley Sisters. Per mantenersi ha fatto tanti lavori, la commessa, la donna delle pulizie e la cantante di nightclub.

Partecipava alle proteste per i diritti civili e ha organizzato un centro diurno multirazziale nel West Side per garantire cure e sostegno a persone indigenti. È stato così che ha conosciuto Gloria Steinem che era andata a intervistarla per scriverne un articolo. Da allora è iniziata la loro militanza e la decisione di fondare un giornale interamente gestito da donne, Ms. Magazine, che inizialmente usciva come edizione speciale di New York. Per tutti gli anni ’70 hanno girato il paese parlando di razza, classe e genere.

Dorothy Pitman Hughes ha creato il primo rifugio per donne maltrattate a New York e ha aperto la strada all’assistenza all’infanzia partecipando alla creazione della prima agenzia cittadina dedicata al benessere e allo sviluppo dell’infanzia.

Sempre con Gloria Steinem, nel 1971, ha fondato la Women’s Action Alliance, pionieristico centro di informazione nazionale specializzato nell’educazione non sessista e multirazziale.

Le due donne sono raffigurate insieme coi pugni alzati nell’iconica fotografia passata alla storia come simbolo della lotta femminista intersezionale.

Dorothy Pitman Hughes è stata firmataria della campagna “We Have Had Abortions” che chiedeva la fine delle leggi arcaiche che limitavano la libertà riproduttiva, incoraggiando le donne a condividere le loro storie e ad agire.

Docente ospite alla Columbia University, ha tenuto un corso dal titolo Le dinamiche del cambiamento. Ha anche insegnato al City College di Manhattan.

Nel 1992, ha co-fondato la Charles Junction Historic Preservation Society in Florida, nell’ex fattoria Junction, per combattere la povertà attraverso l’orticoltura comunitaria e la produzione alimentare.

Nel 1997 è stata la prima donna nera a possedere un centro di forniture per ufficio la Harlem Office Supply, Inc., di cui vendeva azioni a un dollaro a persone e organizzazioni senza scopo di lucro che lavoravano per bambine e bambini afroamericani. Ha sostenuto e fornito consulenza per la creazione di piccole imprese come forma di empowerment e sopravvivenza contro il lavoro sottopagato delle multinazionali e grandi catene.

Dopo una lunga vita di impegno e lotte mai abbandonate, è morta il primo dicembre 2022, a Tampa, in Florida, aveva 84 anni.Tra le sue pubblicazioni ricordiamo:

La vita riguarda le scelte, non le scuse (2014); Sto solo dicendo che sembra una pulizia etnica: la gentrificazione di Harlem (2012); Svegliati e annusa i dollari! A chi appartiene questa città: la lotta di una donna contro sessismo, classismo, razzismo, gentrificazione e la zona di emancipazione (2000).

#unadonnalgiorno #dorothy pitman hughes #feminism

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seriousbusinessforhumans · 1 year

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Dec 11, 2022

The pioneering Black feminist Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a community activist who co-founded Ms magazine with Gloria Steinem and appeared with her in one of the most iconic photos of the second-wave feminist movement, has died. She was 84.

Born Dorothy Jean Ridley on 2 October 1938, in Lumpkin, Georgia, Hughes organized New York City’s first shelter for battered women. She also co-founded the New York City Agency for Child Development to broaden childcare services in the city.

She moved to New York City in the late 1950s and worked as a salesperson, nightclub singer and house cleaner. By the 1960s she had become involved in the civil rights movement, working with Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X.

She set up the West 80th St Community Childcare Center, where in 1968 she met Steinem, who was then a journalist writing a story for New York Magazine. They became friends and from 1969 to 1973 spoke across the country on gender and race issues. In 1972, they co-founded Ms.

Hughes in 2000 detailed her life experience in a book titled Wake Up and Smell the Dollars! Whose Inner-City Is This Anyway!: One Woman’s Struggle Against Sexism, Classism, Racism, Gentrification, and the Empowerment Zone.

In Ms, Laura L Lovett, whose biography of Hughes, With Her Fist Raised, came out last year, said Hughes “defined herself as a feminist, but rooted her feminism in her experience and in more fundamental needs for safety, food, shelter and child care”.

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#Dorothy Pitman Hughes #rip #1960s #1970s #american sex and gender issues #icons #female heroes #civil rights #civil rights movement #american feminism #feminist history #second wave #child care #The Guardian #ms magazine

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qupritsuvwix · 1 year

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#dorothy pitman hughes #obituary #gloria steinem #ms magazine #blm #feminism

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thewickedonee · 2 years

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"if we cannot control our own bodies, there is no democracy, no self determination, no equality, no anything" - Gloria Steinem

#roe v wade #politics #scotus #women rights #abortion #human rights #gloria steinem #dorothy pitman hughes #feminism #reproductive rights

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chukachrisnwosu · 2 years

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Black feminist Dorothy Pitman Hughes dies at 84

NEW YORK (LG) — Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a pioneering Black feminist, child welfare advocate and lifelong community activist who toured the country speaking with Gloria Steinem in the 1970s and appears with her in one of the most iconic photos of the second-wave feminist movement, has died. She was 84. Hughes died Dec. 1 in Tampa, Florida, at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, said Maurice…

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fyblackwomenart · 7 months

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"Dorothy Pitman Hughes " by Ryan Oakley

#art #print #illustration #artist #ryan oakley #portrait #black woman #feminist #activist #msmagazine

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quotidiansacred · 8 months

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denny1416 · 2 years

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Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes stand at a podium in 1970, a year before they co-founded Ms. magazine.

PHOTOGRAPH BY ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, TNS/ GETTY

#gloria steinem #Dorothy Pitman #feminist #feminism #60s aesthetic

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bm2ab · 1 year

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Arrivals & Departures 02 October 1938 – 01 December 2022 Dorothy Jean Ridley Pitman Hughes

Dorothy Pitman Hughes (born Dorothy Jean Ridley) was an American feminist, child-welfare advocate, activist, public speaker, author, and small business owner. Pitman Hughes co-founded the Women’s Action Alliance. Her activism and friendship with Gloria Steinem established racial balance in the nascent feminist movement.

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transatlantic-reads · 9 months

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I just think that when a famous 3rd wave feminist inevitably goes down the rabbithole of various conspiracy theories and straight into far right, white supremacist ideology, we should all stop acting so damn surprised (like, this is the exact same shit that happened with Joanne, why are we still so blindsided by what has clearly become a pattern?)

these are the people who constantly reference Gender Trouble, but refuse to gender Judith Butler correctly; who celebrate Ms Magazine and Gloria Steinem, while conveniently forgetting all about Dorothy Pitman Hughes; who insist that sex workers are inherently oppressed, that sex work is inherently demeaning, regardless of what actual sex workers have to say; who are so quick to treat racism like a hypothetical intellectual debate; who like so much to claim that anybody with a penis is inherently a wannabe rapist, a predator by nature, by birth; who say that womanhood is inextricably linked to victimhood, that heterosexual sex is (nearly) always akin to rape;

they're carceral feminists, gender essentialists, (trans-exclusionary) radical feminists, they are anti porn, anti sex work, anti sex worker.

their entire philosophy is predicated on what women deserve - yet the equality they want isn't for everybody, it is for the ever-shrinking category of what they consider a 'woman' (read: not trans, not black, not a sex worker, not muslim, etc.)

is it really so surprising then, when one of them decides to yet again move the line on what constitutes a righteous cause, on what constitutes a real 'man', an acceptable 'woman'?

#the obvious exclusions apply #not all third wave feminists were/are like this #but I think the seed of all this bullshit is clearly there to see #it always was #I appreciate Naomi Klein's work I just wish people weren't so flabbergasted by what she's pointing out in her book #she's right and she should say it #but miss me with the surprised pikachu jpegs #(hopefully only chill people will see this post)#Naomi Klein #Naomi Wolf #feminism #feminist theory #rumispeaks

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booksandwords · 10 months

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Gloria Steinem by Mª Isabel Sánchez Vegara. Illustrated by Lucila Perini

Age Recommendation: Early Primary Topic/ Theme: Equality, Biographic Setting: America Series: Little People, Big Dreams

Rating: 5/5

Gloria Steinem is a bit (ok a lot) of a controversial figure, any woman who is as deeply entrenched in the feminism movement as she is usually are. This represents her in the best possible light, showing her strength and all the good she has done for women and minorities in the world. The inclusion of the reference to "A Bunny's Tale", Steinem's 1963 Playboy expose is definitely one for the adults. Those iconic ears will mean nothing to young readers.

I like the choices for the consistent design elements of Steinem. Originally I thought there were three but there are only two, the glasses and hair. The one that changed quite late was the colouring of her clothes usually autumnal reds. The art style for Dorothy Pitman Hughes, co-founder of Ms. and frequent face in Steinem's fight for equality, is done well. That last page containing the book's lasting message is fantastic. There are minorities and togetherness, and an adorable Dachshund.

#gloria steinem #book review #little people big dreams #ma isabel sanchez vegara #lucila perini #picture story #read 2022 #booklr

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