Mildly Reserved

UGA alumnus. I like reading, writing, and drinking tea. 

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Portrait of a Young Woman, 1970, Leonor Fini

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It’s warm enough to wear dresses again!!!!!

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Women’s Rights Materials in the Hargrett Library

Materials relating to the women’s rights movement form a major collecting focus here in the Hargrett Library.  Most of our women’s rights collections are part of the Lucy Hargrett Draper Center for the Study of the Rights of Women in History and Law. The Draper Center collections are comprised of primary and secondary materials in a variety of formats with an emphasis on documenting women’s rights, especially the United States and British Women’s Suffrage Movements (1840-1920).  While the emphasis is on collections relating to the leaders of this movement, other materials relate to the suffrage movement in the United States, such as postcards, photographs, government documents and periodicals. In addition, supporting materials recognize some of the leaders of the abolition movement, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and Sojourner Truth, each of whom spoke up on behalf of women’s rights as well as against slavery. Moreover, to place the suffrage materials in historical context the collection also includes pre-suffrage treatise on women’s rights and legal documents dating to the 16th century as well as materials related to post-suffrage efforts (1921-2000) to pass the ERA, the formation of N.O.W., the women’s liberation movement, and the Pro-Choice movement. These materials are open to the public for research and study; the finding aid is browsable through our website.  We annually present an exhibit of materials from this collection exploring various aspects of the women’s rights movement.  This year’s exhibit, ‘Equality Under the Law: History of the Equal Rights Amendment’, is currently on display in our gallery space in the Russell Special Collections Libraries Building. 

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[mostlybuffoonery]

Once. And. For. All.

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Madelynn Furlong

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Cynthia MacAdams, Self-Portrait, 1978

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Frida Kahlo, New Mexico, 1951 © Gisèle Freund

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Frida Kahlo

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International Women’s day.

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[sapphosapphics]

also: happy women’s history month to every trans woman you’re constantly erased from history and pushed out of women’s spaces but you belong there and you have always been important parts of history. let’s not forget trans women this year.

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Happy Women’s Day to all you fabulous ladies out there! Stay awesome!

[withnailrules]

Good Girl Look at you, sitting there being good. After two years you’re still dying for a cigarette. And not drinking on weekdays, who thought that one up? Don’t you want to run to the corner right now for a fifth of vodka and have it with cranberry juice and a nice lemon slice, wouldn’t the backyard that you’re so sick of staring out into look better then, the tidy yard your landlord tends day and night — the fence with its fresh coat of paint, the ash-free barbeque, the patio swept clean of small twigs — don’t you want to mess it all up, to roll around like a dog in his flowerbeds? Aren’t you a dog anyway, always groveling for love and begging to be petted? You ought to get into the garbage and lick the insides of the can, the greasy wrappers, the picked-over bones, you ought to drive your snout into the coffee grounds. Ah, coffee! Why not gulp some down with four cigarettes and then blast naked into the streets, and leap on the first beautiful man you find? The words Ruin me, haven’t they been jailed in your throat for forty years, isn’t it time you set them loose in slutty dresses and torn fishnets to totter around in five-inch heels and slutty mascara? Sure it’s time. You’ve rolled over long enough. Forty, forty-one. At the end of all this there’s one lousy biscuit, and it tastes like dirt. So get going. Listen: they’re howling for you now: up and down the block your neighbors’ dogs burst into frenzied barking and won’t shut up.

Kim Addonizio (via withnailrules)

[soracities]

[…] I want to lie down somewhere and suffer for love until it nearly kills me, and then I want to get up again and put on that little black dress and wait for you, yes you, to come over here and get down on your knees and tell me just how fucking good I look.

Kim  Addonizio, from ‘For Desire’ (via soracities)

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What happened, happened once. So now it’s best in memory— […] Love’s merciless, the way it travels in and keeps emitting light. Beside the stove we ate an orange. And there were purple flowers on the table. And we still had hours.

Kim Addonizio, from “Stolen Moments,” What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems (W. W. Norton & Company, 2005)                           (via metaphorformetaphor)

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Book Cover for ‘The Life of Zora Neale Hurston’

Zora Neale Hurston was confident, charismatic, and determined to be extraordinary.As a young woman, Hurston lived and wrote alongside such prominent authors as Langston Hughes and Alain Locke during the Harlem Renaissance. But unfortunately, despite writing the luminary work Their Eyes Were Watching God, she was always short of money. Though she took odd jobs as a housemaid and as the personal assistant to an actress, Zora often found herself in abject poverty. Through it all, Zora kept writing. And though none of her books sold more than a thousand copies while she was alive, she was rediscovered a decade later by a new generation of readers, who knew they had found an important voice of American Literature.

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Black Heritage Stamps with Ella Fitzgerald, Hattie McDaniel, Madam C.J. Walker, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Bessie Coleman, Sojourner Truth, Anna Julia Cooper, Marian Anderson, Shirley Chisholm.