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littlepawz · 1 year

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“When she applied to run in the Boston Marathon in 1966 they rejected her saying: “Women are not physiologically able to run a marathon, and we can’t take the liability.” Then exactly 50 years ago today, on the day of the marathon, Bobbi Gibb hid in the bushes and waited for the race to begin. When about half of the runners had gone past she jumped in. She wore her brother’s Bermuda shorts, a pair of boy’s sneakers, a bathing suit, and a sweatshirt. As she took off into the swarm of runners, Gibb started to feel overheated, but she didn’t remove her hoodie. “I knew if they saw me, they were going to try to stop me,” she said. “I even thought I might be arrested.” It didn’t take long for male runners in Gibb’s vicinity to realize that she was not another man. Gibb expected them to shoulder her off the road, or call out to the police. Instead, the other runners told her that if anyone tried to interfere with her race, they would put a stop to it. Finally feeling secure and assured, Gibb took off her sweatshirt. As soon as it became clear that there was a woman running in the marathon, the crowd erupted—not with anger or righteousness, but with pure joy, she recalled. Men cheered. Women cried. By the time she reached Wellesley College, the news of her run had spread, and the female students were waiting for her, jumping and screaming. The governor of Massachusetts met her at the finish line and shook her hand. The first woman to ever run the marathon had finished in the top third.”

#women #Bobbi Gibb #first woman Marathon runner #pass the torch #first of many #visionaries #paving the way #running #athletics #women athletes #Boston Marathon #earned accolades #running races #Where there is a will...#challenging prejudice #challenging the rules

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blackgirlsreverything · 2 years

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#venus williams #serena williams #tennis #athletes #black athletes #women athletes #black women athletes #tennis players

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twwings · 3 months

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Big Festivids Recs Post!

Last weekend was the big Festivids GoLive, which meant the release into the wild of 160 brand new small fandom vids (aka fanvids, edits, etc.) Right now the collection's anonymous, but tomorrow is vidder reveals, so I wanted to write up a recs post for some of my absolute favourites from this year's collection. If you know Yuletide, well, Festivids is like Yuletide, celebrating small/weird/underappreciated fandoms! It's an exchange fest, so people ask for the small fandom vids of their heart and, then, receive one.

Honestly the collection this year is SO high quality, you should really go and browse the works yourself in their entirety; there are so many vids that I absolutely loved that I didn't put on this recs list, because I was trying not to get carried away (and also trying to get it done). But just to get you started, here are a smattering of my favourites. I tried to represent a bunch of vid genres and source types here, but ultimately it's just my taste.

RECS RECS RECS!

Andor: Level Up

AHHHH this is a vid about Andor and fascism and collective action and One Way Out and it's so gorgeously done. Perfect song choice, perfect vid, makes me cry and I will rewatch it many times.

Andor: be ready and be brave

Focusing on Ferrix, its history, its people, and its revolution. Absolute chills. Also I'm SO happy whenever I get to watch a vid to a Mountain Goats song.

Mosquita y Mari: como siempre soñé

Such a sweet, soft, slow romance vid. I ACHED for these two. Like reading a 300k slowburn but in three and a half minutes.

Dropout TV: Nothing in my Head

The Dropout TV vid of my DREAAAAAMS! (largely Game Changer but with lots of stuff in there!)

Taskmaster UK: Blood in the Cut

UHHHH. IT'S AMAZING??? It's hot and raw and kinky and hardcore. the vidder has the delicate, precise touch of a bloody scalpel. Yes, this is a vid for Taskmaster, the UK show where comedians do silly tasks. Because yeah, it's that show, but it's also this show.

Slash/Back: Uja

This vidder KNOWS how to vid horror. The way this vid cuts the most terrible images to make them barely-there, more horrifying for being rough slaps against my consciousness . . . yikes. Amazing vidding, super cool and scary, while also maintaining the uplifting, kickass, hopeful tone you want from a collective-action horror movie.

Janelle Monae: I Like That

Glorious, joyful, sexy celebration of being a free-ass motherfucker.

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Hard Times

Boimler vid about how he's essentially a redshirt who is just slightly too sweet to actually die. Absolutely adorable and hilarious.

Woman King: Upside Down

Absolute BANGER of a vid, great cuts, great movement, great character arc and great Dahomey women being amazing.

Romeo + Juliet: Magnetic

We all agree Harold Perrineau is the best Mercutio, SO, with that in mind, here is a flawless celebration of the best Mercutio.

Knives Out/Glass Onion: 'Til You Hit a Nerve

Brilliant comparison vid putting Marta from the first film together with Helen and Andi from the second one, drawing out the similarities and dissimilarities in a visual feast and with a badass powerwalk. Nothing not to love!

David Cronenberg's Films: body

This one is phenomenal. It takes David Cronenberg's entire filmography and condenses it into a vid about all the sexualized body horror. It is deeply horny and deeply disturbing and deeply fascinated by every single finger going into a hole in a body that shouldn't be there. It's soft and tentative and it's very graphic and violent, all at once.

The Wheel of Time: Velodrome

Tower politics and circularity and being bound to one another in every good way and every bad way; what a beautiful vid. I love how this is about a place, and about how that place draws these people together over and over in their shared experience and love and trauma.

The Midnight Sky: The Laughing Heart

Absolutely gorgeous vid of the film to a spoken word + music rendition of Charles Bukowski's "The Laughing Heart" (there is a light somewhere). I have not seen this film but I found this vid deeply moving.

Moby Dick: Queequeg and I

There are four (FOUR!!!) Moby Dick vids at Festivids this year, and they are all amazing combinations of a huge smorgasboard of sources, I heartily recommend them all, but I'll specifically rec two. This one is Queequeg and Ishmael to "Wouldn't It Be Nice" and it is the sweetest queerest thing ever. Queequeg and Ishmael get a happy ending shhhhh they do shhhhh yes this is how it happened they came out of the water they're fine

Moby Dick: a vulture feeds upon the heart forever

This vid is a fucking masterpiece. It is a huge archival multisource Moby Dick vid that weaves all these incredibly different visual together to make a coherent, tragic narrative. And like. The BOOK is not a coherent narrative! This is such gorgeous and amazing fanwork. Don't miss out on it.

Women's 100m Sprinting: Didn't Come to Play

This is GORGEOUS, I don't know anything about sprinting but I know I love these beautiful joyful powerful women running really fast and hugging each other and being amazing. The editing on this is so tight; the vid never stops for a second. Like a sprint?!?!?!

The Golem and the Jinni: סיפור הגולם

This is another book vid, but since this book doesn't have any adaptations, it's using entirely archival source and probably some documentaries and films to construct the story - or, really, construct the vibe of the book, construct the metaphors of the book, and the result is beautiful and powerful and meditative. It's about survival, and making life.

Jesus Christ Superstar: Hope on Fire

This is another umbrella vid, where the vidder is taking a bunch of different productions of the play and mashing them together. This vid focuses on Judas and Jesus/Judas, and it all feels so inevitable and tragic and real and cruel. I really loved it.

Jordan Peele's Films: Goodbye, Honey, You Call That Gone

This is such a wonderful mashup of Jordan Peele's three films, exploring all the parallels and differences and just the rich tapestry of his imagery.

猎罪图鉴 | Under the Skin: Put It On Me

I don't know this source but this was just so gorgeously put together; there's a focus on art and art objects, on hands moving and creating, that's just mesmerizing.

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magnetictapedatastorage · 4 months

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She is a Yupik/Inupiaq. She is the first native of Alaska to compete in the Olympics. In 2006, she was invited to her first Winter X Games competition and won a silver medal in 2011. In February 2014, Chythlook-Sifsof came out publicly as gay, saying she did so in support of ongoing protests of Russia's anti-LGBTQ laws.

#wikipedia #women athletes

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avalonnuovo · 5 months

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by Avalon Nuovo on Tumblr | Instagram | Behance

#illustration #drawing #tennis #sports #australian open #wimbledon #us open #athlete #women athletes #serena williams #ons jabeur

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importantwomensbirthdays · 2 months

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Oriane Bertone

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Rock climber Oriane Bertone was born in 2005 in Nice, France. In 2018, when she was twelve years old, Bertone became the youngest climber ever to master a V14 (8B+) boulder problem. In 2019, she became the Youth World Champion in bouldering and lead climbing. Bertone later left the youth circuit and won a silver medal at the 2021 Boulder World Cup. In 2023, she claimed her first Boulder World Cup gold medal. Later that year, Bertone qualified for the 2024 Olympics.

#rock climbing #sports #outdoor sports #women's sports #women athletes #france #french #Youtube

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nansheonearth · 4 months

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Life gets you down some time but at least you can watch women's hockey live on youtube.

#radfem #hockey #sports #pwhl #o #women athletes

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vavandeveresfan · 1 month

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NCAA faces lawsuit over transgender policies: 'Fight for the very essence of women's sports'.

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The tide is fucking turning.

#Riley Gaines #save women's sports #women's spaces #women's sports #women's rights #feminism #women athletes #NCAA lawsuit

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burningtheroots · 1 year

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Sexism against women in sports

Sexism in women‘s sports has many different faces, whether it‘s undermining their accomplishments, disregarding their talent and hard-work or making fun of it altogether.

One of the most recent and prevalent issues is the constant sexualization of female players and using their anatomy against them on purpose to keep them in check and appeal to the male gaze.

Although it happened some time ago, two striking examples are when Serena Williams wasn‘t allowed to play wearing a specialized suit which was to prevent blood clots as she had just given birth and when the Norway handball team was fined 1500€ for wearing shorts instead of bikini bottoms.

It‘s VERY clear that women are constantly sexualized, objectified AND held back career-wise by mysognistic rules. We can see that men‘s clothing is allowed to be far more practical and comfortable, whereas female sports apparently aren‘t interesting enough unless there could be a possible labia slip or at least provide something to lustfully stare at.

I‘m 100% sure that women would excel even more at sports if they weren‘t subjugated to these sexist and dehumanizing standards and rules. Once someone said that "they know the rules and if they don’t like it, they can just not play the sport" which says A LOT about how women are treated and viewed in sports.

Women shouldn’t be disadvantaged like this for the sake of (male) entertainment. Women should receive fair treatment and conditions.

This is a much bigger problem than most people would want to believe, and only one of so many.

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willbrakeforneature · 5 months

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did some book gift shopping and picked up something for myself 🙂

#up to speed #women athletes #women who like to move it move it #athlete is a strong word #new books #eat your colors #field journal #my race journal #runblr #running #move your body

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gwydionmisha · 1 year

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#Muslim Women #Women Athletes #Hijab Bans #Inclusive Clothing #News

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thedimlaltain · 1 year

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Dutee Chand has been so brave. Her courage gives me and other Indians hope. Onwards and upwards.

#dutee chand #indian athletes #because of her we can #women athletes #Women in Sports #Women in suits #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queer #wlw in sports #LGBT in sports #LGBT in sport #lesbian athletes #indian lesbians

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 1 year

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“Canada’s Champion Girl Sprinter On Skis,” Kingston Whig-Standard. February 13, 1933. Page 1. ---- Miss Hilda Strike of Montreal, all dressed up and ready to push off down the Cote des Neiges ski jump at Montreal in the two-mile race for ladies. Miss Strike is now Canada’s outstanding woman sprinter and she and Stella Walesciewicz rank as the fastest in the world.

#montreal #cote des neiges #ski jump #sking #downhill sking #two mile race #racing champion #athletes #sprinter #women athletes #great depression in canada #total babe

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