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Born in Flames (1983)
by Lizzie Borden
#1980s movies#No Wave#Downtown NYC#Florynce Kennedy#free palestine#Gaza#Keffiyeh#intifada#civil rights#i said what i said#decolonization#I don't know who needs to hear this today but#palestine#Israel#israeli apartheid#ethnic cleansing#Vaporwave#Social Justice#supernatural#qsmp#mass effect#us politics#loki#one piece#taylor swift#the eras tour
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Florynce Kennedy.. American Lawyer ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾🖤🖤🖤
#Florynce Kennedy#black history#blackexcellence365#civil rights movement#civil rights#black excellence#American Lawyer#black history is american history
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Just like the fuse that ignites the whole bomb, we are important. Black women - be ready. White women - get ready. Red women - stay ready. For, this is our time and all must realize that.
Born in Flames, Lizzie Borden (1983)
#Lizzie Borden#Honey#Adele Bertei#Jean Satterfield#Florynce Kennedy#Becky Johnston#Pat Murphy#Kathryn Bigelow#Hillary Hurst#Sheila McLaughlin#Marty Pottenger#Ed Bowes#Al Santana#1983#woman director
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“Don't agonize, organize.” —Florynce Kennedy
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One cannot discuss The Feminists without first discussing its founder, Ti-Grace Atkinson. Her biography is relevant not only because she so dominated the group while a part of it, but also because it can help illuminate why it was that Atkinson was so invested in being the most radical of all radical feminists. Atkinson was raised in an upper-class, Republican family in Louisiana. After marrying at the age of seventeen, she attended the University of Pennsylvania where she received her B.F.A. While living in Philadelphia she helped establish that city's Institute of Contemporary Art and wrote art criticism for Art News. She and her husband divorced in 1961, and in the mid-60s she moved to New York and enrolled in Columbia's graduate program in political philosophy. When she joined NOW in 1967, at the age of twenty-eight, she was a registered Republican with no prior political experience. However, Atkinson was no novice to feminist ideas. She had read Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex in 1962 and, like so many other other women who helped spark the second wave of feminism, she was profoundly affected by it. Feeling isolated, she wrote to de Beauvoir in 1965, who suggested that she write to Betty Friedan. Atkinson did contact Friedan, who initially viewed her as her protégé. Indeed, Friedan claims that it was she who pushed Atkinson into NOW's leadership for she felt that Atkinson's "Main Line accent and ladylike blond good looks would be perfect . . . for raising money from those mythical rich old widows we never did unearth." Before long, however, Friedan discovered that Atkinson was anything but an obedient acolyte.
Atkinson's turbulent relationship with NOW began in February 1967, when she attended the first organizational meeting of the New York chapter. In December 1967 she was elected president of New York NOW, by far the largest and the most radical of all the NOW chapters. Although there were forty-five other chapters, the New York chapter contained thirty percent of the organization’s membership. Kate Millett, author of the 1970 bestseller Sexual Politics, feminist playwright Anselma dell'Olio, and civil-rights lawyer Florynce Kennedy were among the more radical women who belonged to this chapter. As a result of her involvement in NOW, Atkinson met women who politicized her about other forms of oppression and who introduced her to the "more radical factions" at Columbia University during the strike of 1968. As Atkinson puts it, "my feminism radicalized me on other issues, not vice versa."
But as Atkinson became more radical she grew disillusioned with NOW, and the NOW establishment grew increasingly apprehensive about her. From the beginning, Atkinson wanted the organization to take "unequivocal positions . . . on abortion, marriage, the family"—the very issues which many members were anxious that NOW avoid. Increasingly, Atkinson staked out positions that were on the cutting edge of feminism. For instance, abortion-rights activist Cindy Cisler contends that it was Atkinson who first pointed out the inconsistency of supporting both the repeal and the reform of abortion laws. Moreover, Atkinson's involvement with controversial figures like Valerie Solanas and abortion advocate Bill Baird made the NOW establishment extremely uneasy. Her very public show of support for Valerie Solanas in the aftermath of the Warhol shooting infuriated many NOW officers who feared that people might think the organization actually condoned the act. Years later, Friedan was still furious about Atkinson's behavior. "No action of the board of New York NOW, of National NOW, no policy ever voted by the members advocated shooting men in the balls, the elimination of men as proposed by that SCUM Manifesto!" Of course, Atkinson's outrageousness delighted the press who seemed to hang on her every word. As early as March 1968, a New York Times reporter labeled Atkinson the movement's "haute thinker."
The situation came to a head on October 17, 1968, when Atkinson and other "younger dissenting" members tried to bring participatory democracy to NOW. They proposed that NOW scuttle elections and instead choose officers by lot and rotate the positions frequently to equalize power within the organization. However, the New York chapter defeated the proposed by-laws by a two-to-one margin. Atkinson claimed that the speeches given by those opposing the democratization of NOW
“revealed unmistakably that the division in N.O. W. as well as in the feminist movement as a whole is between those who want women to have the opportunity to be oppressors, too, and those who want to destroy oppression itself.”
To Atkinson, the lopsided vote demonstrated beyond a doubt that NOW was part of the problem rather than the solution. She resigned that night as New York chapter president and from her four other NOW offices as well. In her press release, Atkinson explained that the dissidents wanted
“to get rid of the positions of power, not get up into those positions. The fight against unequal power relationships between men and women necessitates fighting unequal power everyplace: between men and women (for feminists especially), but also between men and men, and women and women, between black and white, and rich and poor.”
Although several other NOW members apparently had vowed that they too would resign from the organization if the proposed by-laws were defeated, only two other women besides Atkinson left the organization in protest.
-Alice Echols, Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America: 1967-75
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Florynce Kennedy
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Lawyer and civil rights activist Florynce Kennedy was born in 1916 in Kansas City, Missouri. As an attorney, Kennedy took on high-profile and controversial cases. She was involved with many cases against restrictive abortion laws in New York, and her activism helped pave the way for New York becoming the first state to legalize abortion. Kennedy was a founding member of the National Black Feminist Organization, and helped start the National Organization for Women. In 1976, she published an autobiography, Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times.
Florynce Kennedy died in 2000 at the age of 84.
#black women#black history#civil rights#abortion#feminism#abortion rights#women's history#reproductive rights#black feminism#Youtube
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Here's my list of forgotten/cool women from history. Please take it, reblog it with more, spread it, learn about them, make books about them:
Lucy (slave used for experimentations on the uterus)
Nightwitches from WW2
Grace Hopper
Mary Anning
Maria Mitchell
Ada Lovelace
Kate Warne
Agnes Barre
Flora Tristan
Olympe de Gouges
Eleanor Roosevelt
Bessie Smith
Sylvia Plath
Sweet Tee
Lady D (the rapper)
The Sequence
Lady B
Rachel Carson
Baya
Tahireh
Lalla Fatma N'Soumer
Rosalind Franklin
Miriam Makeba
Alexandra David Néel
Suzanne Noël
Helena Rubinstein
Katherine Switzer
Jeanne Barret
Sophie Germain
Katherine Johnson
Margaret Hamilton
Hedy Lamarr
Betty Snyder Holberton
Kathleen McNulty Mauchly Antonelli
Marilyn Wescoff Meltzer
Frances Bilas Spence
Ruth Lichteman Teitelbaum og Jean Jennings Bartik
Valerie Thomas
Karen Sparck Jones
Dr Shirley Ann Jackson
Radia Perlman
Stacy Horn
Dr Betty Harris
Beulah Louise Henry
Elizabeth "Jake" Feinler
Empress Zenobia of the Palmyrene Empire
Surya Bonaly
Dolly Parton
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Shelley
Queen Nzinga of Ndongo Kingdom
Queen Yaa Asantewa Ashanti
Empress Candace of Ethiopia
Queen Sarraounia Mangou of Aznas Kingdom
Dona Beatriz
Mileva Marić
Matoaka
Janet Sobel
Claudette Colvin
Marsha P. Johnson
Marian Anderson
Madam CJ Walker
Frida Kahlo
Mirka Mora
Dahomey Amazons
The 40 Elephants
Diamond Alice
Maggie Bailey
Julie d'Aubigny
Bessie Coleman
Policarpa Salavarrieta
Annie Oakley
Anna Julia Cooper
Sojourner Truth
Ida B. Wells
Shirley Chisholm
Mary Church Terrell
Audre Lorde
Harriet Tubman
Maria W. Stewart
Angela Davis
Florynce Kennedy
Jocelyn Bell
Alice Ball
Lise Meitner
Chien Shiung Wu
Marie Tharp
Elizabeth Blackwell
Amanirenas
Wu Zetian
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"If men could get pregnant, abortion would be sacrament."
Florynce R. Kennedy (1916-2000)
#pro choice#reproductive rights#radfem#radblr#radical feminists please interact#radical feminist community#radical feminism#intersectional feminism#feminism#abortion rights#reproductive justice#abortion is healthcare#pro abortion
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
Florynce Kennedy
#girlpower#girl#woman power#feminism#female#female manipulator#entp female#girly girl#girly#coquette#dollette#femcel#girlboss#gatekeep gaslight girlboss
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Ludi Plebeii Day 3, and as you can see above, it rained last night, so things were a little damp out there today, although it had stopped by this morning. It DID NOT cool off any, and it was once again almost too warm for my hoodie, so I may take a lighter hooded jacket out there tomorrow, although I’ve got a light decorative scarf somewhere close to hand that I could use to veil, I think.
Anyway, this is one of the days that kind of slides around a little - there’s a day around this time that I’ve devoted to an American Triad of goddesses plus Fortuna America, which I’ll generally try to place on Election Day, if it’s an election year, and on off-years, it usually happens on day three. But I’ve moved it to Tuesday this year, and then moved some other things around it, and so today was devoted to honoring an ancestor cohort that I call the Antesignani, the standard bearers - movement leaders of history, MLK and John Lewis, Mary Harris Jones and Joe Hill, César Chavez and Philip Vera Cruz, Lucy Stone and Ida B. Wells, Florynce Kennedy, Franklin Kameny and Del Martin and Marsha P. Johnson, Margaret Sanger and Emma Goldman, and a bunch of others. In addition to the general invocation and offering of grits, there’s also a litany of names honoring representative individuals, local and national, with a scattering of grits for each, before I pull the omen.
Omen today was ... ok, so here’s what happened: When I went to pull the first rune, the “needs” rune, two came out together: isa, ice, a pause, a hold, like staying still and calm and frozen, and jera, the wheel of the year, the inevitable turn of the seasons and the cycle of sowing, growth and harvest. These two actually fall in this order in the traditional listing of the elder futhark, and I feel like they were complementary in this pull - I had a sense of ... of needing to know when to move and when to hold, because both are appropriate at different times. I did then cast the two of them, with the intention of asking, which one RIGHT NOW? and jera landed face-up, so I took that as the actual omen, but I kept isa out as a kind of superscript for it. So, as a “needs” rune, I’m looking at this jera as the necessity of doing the work of sowing and planting that’s going to guarantee the annual harvest. Blessing rune was mannaz, which always feels appropriate for this group - the self, but specifically within social networks, networks of being and belonging, your place in the world. One of the interesting things about mannaz is that it also is a twinned wunjo, the rune for joy, looking back at itself, which I feel like says something about our interactions with other people when we're in positive places in those networks. Once again, getting some really nice stuff, so far this year.
Shadow rune, where we’re standing now, was once again elhaz, protection, and here’s the thing - context matters, and meanings shift, and this didn’t feel cramped today, the way it did yesterday. It felt like reassurance.
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Carol Denise Betts (Ensley; born February 23, 1970), known professionally as Niecy Nash, is an actress, comedian, and television host, known for her performances on television.
She made her professional acting debut in Boys on the Side. She guest-starred in NYPD Blue, Judging Amy, Reba, Girlfriends, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and ER. She appeared in Cookie's Fortune and had a recurring role in City of Angels in 2000.
She hosted Clean House (2003-10) for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award 2010. She played the role of Deputy Raineesha Williams in Reno 911! (2003–09). She received two nominations for Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series nominations for her performance as nurse Denise "DiDi" Ortley in Getting On (2013–15). She starred as Lolli Ballantine on The Soul Man (2012-16) and played Denise Hemphill in Scream Queens (2015–16). She began starring as Desna Simms, a leading character in Claws.
She has played several roles in films and has made many guest appearances on television shows. She played the role of civil rights activist Richie Jean Jackson in Selma. She starred as Delores Wise in When They See Us, for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She portrayed feminist leader Florynce Kennedy in Mrs. America. She served as a guest host of the show The Masked Singer for five episodes.
She is a spokesperson for M.A.V.I.S. (Mothers Against Violence In Schools). She attended California State University, Dominguez Hills.
She married Don Nash (1994-2007), an ordained minister. They have three children together. She married Jay Tucker (2011-2020). She married singer Jessica Betts (2020). #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence
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Watch "Florynce "Flo" Kennedy: Black Feminist Radical" on YouTube
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🌍♀️#ArtIsAWeapon Happy #InternationalWomensDay salute to #WaywardWomen
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“Wayward: to wander, to be unmoored, adrift, rambling, roving, cruising, strolling, and seeking. To claim the right to opacity. To strike, to riot, to refuse. To love what is not loved. To be lost in the world. It is the practice of the social otherwise, the insurgent ground that enables new possibilities and néw vocabularies: it is the lived experience of enclosure and segregation, assembling and huddling together. It is the directionless search for a free territory; it is a practice of making and relation that enfolds within the policed boundaries of the dark ghetto; it is the mutual aid offered in the open-air prison. It is a queer resource of Black survival.
“Waywardness is the practice of possibility at a time, when all reads, except the ones created by smashing out, are foreclosed. It obeys no rules and abides no authorities. It is unrepentant. It traffics in occult visions of other world and dreams of a different kind of life. Waywardness is an ongoing exploration of what might be; it is an improvisation with the terms of social existence, when the terms have already been dictated, when there is little room to breathe, when you have been sentenced to a life of servitude, when the house of bondage looms in whatever direction you move. It is an untiring practice of trying to live, when you were never meant to survive.”
- except from WAYWARD LIVES, BEAUTIFUL EXPERIMENTS by Dr. #SaidiyaHartman, published by Norton, 2019.
Happy International Women’s Day to all the riotous, rebellious, rule breaking, trouble making shape shifting, wayward women out there, here are some of my fave wayward muses.
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1. Eartha Kitt
2. Florynce Kennedy
3. Gladys Bentley
4. Betty Davis
5. Azealia Banks
6. Lil’Kim
7. Pat Parker
8. Nina Simone
9. Josephine Baker
10. Zora Neale Hurston
Who are some of yours? 😏💖
#wayward
#muses
#internationalwomensday
#freeblackwomen
#waywardwomen
#womancrushwednesday
#womenshistorymonth
#blackwomen
#tfbwlmuse
#artistsandwriters
#TFBWL
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