the burglar

[susannewontrecover]

Mother and daughter looking at each other

[thesilliestpotato]

I was looking for references and stumbled across a series of paintings from 1930s by Soviet painter Alexander Samokhvalov called "The young women of metro construction"

[anthanight]

The female goat herders of Hadhramaut, Yemen

one does not simply walk into mordor. you need these QUEENS and then, would you look at that, sauron has been defeated with a side eye—

source: reddit

[anthanight]

little red riding hood, beware the huntsman

Would you fear a forest full of wolves or a forest full of men?

Let's keep it to North America for a fair comparison.

Wolves have caused just 2 recorded fatal attacks in Alaska and one in Canada.

In the lower 48 states wolves have killed exactly zero people. NOT. ONE. EVER.

Husbands, boyfriends, and family members in the United States killed over 2,400 women in 2023 alone. That's nearly 7 women every single day.

Since 1996, that adds up to more than 45,000 women murdered by men in single-victim, single-offender incidents.

There's a predator they forgot to mention. He has a name you know. He has a key to your house.

Tell me again which one you're actually afraid of.

[anthanight]

“Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.” -Nana, A Thousand Splendid Suns

Mariam learned this lesson too young. So do most of us. The question is: what do we do after we learn it?

[lisamarieblair]

“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” 

— Audre Lorde

[anthanight]

by men, for men.

[anthanight]

her: discovers what stars are made of

history: cute. anyway here's why henry gets the Nobel.

her: i literally—

history: shhh. smile for the photo.

pictured: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who discovered what stars are made of in 1925, was told she was wrong by a senior astronomer, and watched him publish the same conclusion four years later and take the credit...and the Nobel Prize

girlbossed so hard history had to steal it.

[lamusedhermes]

Kind reminder that a degree will not get up one day and leave you, cheat on you, cut your funds, disrespect you or assault you. A degree will be worth a thousand sleepless nights and rivers of tears, because in the end it does matter more than anything else. A degree will make you an independent and undefeated woman, so stop belittling the importance of education nowadays. Every woman who studies is a woman who is ensuring a greater future for all women.

[anthanight]

introducing: history's burglar

History has, with tremendous confidence and absolutely no self-awareness, been written mostly by people who also happened to be the protagonists. Curious.

Every woman who ever walked into a laboratory, a lecture hall, or a boardroom was not fighting to be the "first woman to —." She was fighting so that the sentence would eventually stop being necessary. So that her daughter could walk into the same room and nobody would think to write it down.

We have not gotten there yet. We are still handing out "only woman in the room" like it's an adorable compliment.

The women who split atoms, mapped genomes, and calculated the trajectories that got men to the moon were largely credited with "being very helpful." Some got a thank you note. Lise Meitner co-discovered nuclear fission and got a very gracious exclusion from the Nobel Prize her partner collected alone, which is somehow both worse and extremely on brand.

Here, i'm trying to dramatize and reconstruct those exact moments where history looked the other way. If you came here for objectivity, the door is that way. If you came here because you also cannot believe we just LET this happen, then welcome. There's room.

Normalized is the goal. It always was.