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Serena Williams now officially has the most major tennis wins of anyone, ever
Serena Williams set a record for Grand Slam wins with her 308th, passing Roger Federer for most all-time. Her fourth round victory over Yaroslava Shvedova came 6-2, 6-3 on Monday at the U.S. Open. And this is how insanely decorated she’ll be if she wins the Open.
Gifs: HD Tennis (1) (2)
We’ve all heard of Betty Boop. But how many of you knew that she was based off of a BLACK woman.
Yes Betty Boop was based off of Ms.Esther Jones known by her stage name “Baby Esther”. She was an African-American singer and entertainer of the 1920’s. Her singing trademark was “Boop oop da doop” hence the name Betty Boop! She performed regularly at the cotton club in Harlem,New York.
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I googled to make sure this was true, and it was.
one would hope so.
Actually the real story is far more interesting, as Esther Jones was actually used as evidence against performer Helen Kane, who tried to sue Fleischer Studios in 1932, saying that Betty Boop had been a “deliberate caricature” of Kane without her permission. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Boop#Helen_Kane_lawsuit
dude, yeah, i got all curious and went on a google rampage earlier. o.o
http://www.sinuousmag.com/2014/09/photo-not-esther-jones-betty-boop-not-black/
I had NEVER heard about this until today! Wow!
Name: Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg Dates: 1933 - Present Why she rocks: Appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg became the second female Supreme Court justice (after Sandra Day O’Connor) and the first Jewish female justice. Prior to her time on the Supreme Court, she spent her legal career as an advocate for women’s rights, and advocated as a volunteer lawyer for the ACLU. In addition to her legal career, she continued to overcome adversity in her personal life. After the birth of their daughter, her husband was diagnosed with cancer, and during this period, Ginsburg attended class and took notes for both of them, typed her husband's papers to his dictation, and cared for their daughter and her sick husband—all while making the Harvard Law Review. With the retirement of John Paul Stevens in 2010, Ginsburg became, at age 77, the eldest justice on the Court. Despite rumors she would retire as a result of old age, poor health, and the death of her husband, she denied she was planning to step down, and that serving on the court gave her “new life and meaningful work”
Quote: "People ask me sometimes...When will there be enough women on the court? And my answer is: When there are nine." Because of this woman... we have a strong female fighting for women’s rights in the Supreme Court, helping people to achieve equal rights.
WOMEN IN HISTORY: Hattie Elizabeth Alexander (1901–1968)
Hattie Alexander developed the first effective remedies for Haemophilus influenzae, reducing the mortality rate from nearly 100 percent to less than 25 percent. Alexander was also among the first scientists to identify and study antibiotic resistance, which she correctly concluded was caused by random genetic mutations in DNA. In 1964, she became the first woman elected president of the American Pediatric Society.
LOVE this!
Historian and Feminist Scholar Gerda Lerner
I am pleased to see women from all walks of life. True feminism deals with women wholly, regardless of their social background or ethnicity. Do you find modern feminism as less clear? Original ideas in a changed ( modern) context blurs the lines of equality and supremacy?
I feel that we're in a fourth wave of feminism right now, and although feminism has it's set definition that we've all heard a million times, there are women out there who proudly call themselves feminists, yet they do not understand that their words or actions can often times hurt or hinder the experiences of others. However the beauty of this is that we are starting to talk about a VERY important aspect of feminism, and identity as a whole, which is intersectionality. We are all women, as one, this is true... but our other parts of our identity will determine some of the obstacles or privileges we will face. As a white woman, I have experienced oppression at times due to my gender, and privileges at times because of the color of my skin. This is the first time in history where these overlapping identities are being talked about, which is incredible to me that it's taken us this long to even recognize this gap in the feminist movement that needed to be mended.When it comes to intersectionality and feminism, I enjoy all the shades of grey (and yes there are more than 50 of them haha) because no woman is exactly alike. The important part is that we all must respect each other. By lifting up female voices, especially those who have intersecting identities, and being an advocate for women in general, we are able to empathize and learn from each other. This is why I started this blog. Everyone deserves to be heard and respected for what they do for the world.To answer the second part of your question, I have never seen feminism as an act of supremacy. It's not about being better than anyone, but it's about saying, "Hi, I'm here and this is what I have to say", which is a respect that I think everyone deserves, especially those who have not had their stories told in the past. History books are just the tip of the iceberg. It's time for us to dive deeper.
Some other facts about Josephine Baker (Freda Josephine McDonald)
She first married at the age of 13
She danced alongside Ethel Waters at the Plantation Club in New York City
She tried to bring her career to America in 1936 but the racism forced her back to France
She was a member of the Free French forces during WWII
She also worked for the French Resistance during WWII. She smuggled messages in her underwear and music sheets.
She was awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honour for her work with the French military
She was married 4 times
She adopted 12 children from around the world
She attended the March on Washington and was one of the speaker’s
In 1973 she finally got to perform at Carnegie Hall in NYC
Princess Grace of Monaco was a friend of Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker died in her sleep of a cerebral hemorrhage on April 12, 1975 at the age of 69
Over 20,000 people attended her funeral procession in Paris
May 20th is Josephine Baker Day as declared by the NAACP because of her Civil Rights work
Sources: wikipedia
Annie Jean Easley, NASA rocket scientist (1933-2011)
"If I can’t work with you, I will work around you.”
Let’s start off Women’s History Month by talking about Annie Jean Easley. Annie was a mathematician, engineer, and NASA rocket scientist in the 60s. As you might imagine, that didn’t come easy.
Annie was born into deeply segregated Alabama prior to the Civil Rights movement. As an African-American, she was required to take literacy tests and pay money in order to vote – despite being a college graduate and valedictorian of her high school. Undeterred by this, not only did she cast her vote, but she spent much of her time helping others pass the literacy test so they could too.
After moving to Cleveland with her husband and finding that the nursing program she’d wanted to enter had shut down, she applied on a lark to NACA (the predecessor to NASA). She worked there for many years as a human computer, while simultaneously pursuing a degree in mathematics. She moved on to doing Symbolic Optimal Assembly Programming (SOAP) on punch card machines (IBM 650s and 740s), and then many years of FORTRAN programming.
She had to fight every step along the way. When she received her degree after many years of concurrently working at NASA, the management required she get more training before promoting her (a requirement not made of new hires). When NASA refused to help pay her tuition (although they did for others), she paid it herself. When they refused to give her paid leave to finish her degree, she took unpaid leave. And after a 34 year career without promotions, she didn’t look back on her time with bitterness - she was happy to have contributed to the advancement of humanity and the sciences. Of the endless series of microaggressions she suffered, she later said:
When people have their biases and prejudices, yes, I am aware. My head is not in the sand. But my thing is, if I can’t work with you, I will work around you. I was not about to be so discouraged that I’d walk away. That may be a solution for some people, but it’s not mine.
Her research on energy usage was used in the Centaur rockets, which laid the foundation for all rocket projects to come thereafter — as well as technologies like hybrid car batteries.
She continued pushing herself and trying new things even into her later years – learning to snowboard at age 68. When talking about her late-life achievements, she simply remarked:
You’re never too old, and if you want to, as my mother said, you can do anything you want to, but you have to work at it.
Found out about this awesome lady on Twitter this morning!
NAME: Laverne Cox
DATES: 1984 - Present WHY SHE ROCKS: Playing sassy hairstylist Sofia Burset on the hit show Orange is the New Black, Laverne Cox is one of the leading transgender actresses in Hollywood. She has been nominated for several awards for her various TV roles, as well as accolades for her important activist work with the trans community. She was the first transgender individual to be featured on the cover of TIME magazine in 2014.
Quote: “Each and every one of us has the capacity to be an oppressor. I want to encourage each and every one of us to interrogate how we might be an oppressor, and how we might be able to become liberators for ourselves and each other.”
Because of this woman: She has paved the way for other trans actresses to pursue roles in Hollywood, and has provided resources and support for trans youth and others.
Happy Women's History Month!
It's Women's History Month every month here at BotW! Remember to submit your nominations for women we should feature on this blog. We'll have at least one new woman featured every day!
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NAME: Kathleen Cleaver
DATES: 1945-Present WHY SHE ROCKS: Kathleen Neal moved to San Francisco at age 22 to join the Black Panther Party, and became the party's first female member of the decision-making body, serving as a communications secretary and spokesperson. she eventually left the party with her husband to form a new party, and though she was met with adversity from the international authorities, she persisted in forging a new path in the civil rights movement. in 1981 she returned back to school, receiving a full ride scholorship and graduating summa cum laude from Yale University. she went on to become a noted lawyer and senior lecturer at several higher education institutions in african american studies.
Quote: "The Price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less"
Because of this woman: the US gained a strong black female leader, who challenged the status quo and helped the civil rights movement progress. she continues to speak out about injustices against blacks, and continues to use her powerful voice to educate others
Elizabeth Eckford - 1957 Little Rock Desegregation
This is one of the most powerful images I have ever seen. Although not really one of my history crushes, Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine, is certainly admirable and just heroic.
As more of an introverted person, I sometimes find myself feeling lonely and frustrated when I see my peers expressing themselves so easily with each other. It’s difficult enough feeling lonely and left out but despite being a minority, I’m fortunate enough to attend a largely tolerant school where I’m not really a victim of bullying or even shallow rumors.
I think most of us can admit that loneliness hurts and that it sucks. So when I look at this picture, I just can’t even… To imagine a mob of leering and hateful people making such effort to break you and rip your heart into pieces is just unfathomable. Sometimes I can’t even help feeling dejected when I’m sitting at a table by myself after school or being the last person chosen on a team during gym class. And then here is a girl my age, living a little more than 50 years ago, being both directly and indirectly told that she can’t use a certain water fountain or sit in a certain seat or even go to a certain school because of her race. No, not her moral character, not even her academic qualifications, but BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF HER SKIN, something over which she had no control. In the end, Elizabeth Eckford and the other African-American students of Little Rock High School had to be escorted in by troops.
Look at this picture and I’m sure you’ll get chills from the almost tangible presence of the hate being directed at this young woman. You can almost imagine the pleasure with which the mob would watch Elizabeth Eckford break composure, give up and become consumed by its raw hatred.
But she didn’t.
Elizabeth Eckford exercised her right to attend an integrated public school, even when the odds were not in her favor. Although she faced many obstacles in her education, she put up quite a fight and helped clear the way for future generations of African-Americans who wanted access to a fair and equal public education system.
And this is why Elizabeth Eckford is so amazing. Not because she is some kind of Iron Man or other Marvel hero, but rather because she was a young adult, like many of us, who stood up for the rights that she deserved and for a valuable cause that she was passionate about. It’s so important to realize that young people have the power to bring about change and fight injustices and grievances brought upon us and other people in our society.
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Photos from previous posts: Ho Miu Ling (Madame Wu Ting Fang), Indira Gandhi, Uzbek girl engineer, Kang Tongbi (Kang Tung Pih) 康同璧, Philippine schoolgirls, and Japanese mother and daughter.
Doria Shafiq (1908 - 1975) was one of the bravest and significant women’s rights activist of Egypt.
Shafiq, who studied at the Parisian Sorbonne, founded the the magazine Daughters of the Nile during the 40s and a little later the “Union of the Daughters of the Nile”. In July 1951 she stormed the parliament in Cairo together with hundreds of other women to push trough the female suffrage. Three years later she went on hunger strike to protest for the right of women to run a political office. Revolutionary Leader Nasser, with whom she had initially worked together, placed the belligerent women’s rights activist under house arrest in 1957 when she demanded his resignation. He let all her publications be annihilated. In 1975 the completely isolated Shafiq commited suicide by jumping off the balcony of her apartment.
She now has been crossed out of the Egyptian textbooks for 2013/14 by the Minister for Education, Mostafa Mosaad. The reason: She was not veiled.
Peggielene Bartels, A.K.A. King Peggy, is currently the King of Otuam, Ghana. She was chosen to be one of only three female kings in Ghana, and when she discovered that male chauvinists wanted her to only be a figurehead, she said: “They were treating me like I am a second-class citizen because I am a woman. I said, ‘Hell no, you’re not going to do this to a woman!’” When she encountered corruption and the threat of embezzlement to the royal funds, she declared “I’m going to squeeze their balls so hard their eyes pop!”
King Peggy has maintained her work in Ghana’s embassy in Washington, D.C. while making education affordable in Otuam, installing borehead wells to produce clean drinking water, enforcing incarceration laws to deal with domestic violence, replenishing the royal coffers by taxing Otuam’s fishing industry to improve life in the village, and appointing three women to her council.
“Nobody should tell you, ‘You’re a woman, you can’t do it,’” she insists. “You can do it. Be ready to accept it when the calling comes.”
Quoted from the Spring/Summer 2012 issue of Ms. Magazine.
What a beautiful badass woman.
King Peggy has been on my blog before but this is my goddamn blog and I will have King Peggy on here twice if I want.
MORE FEMALE KINGS.
Always reblog King Peggy, who is on my dash far less than she should be. Did you know she has written a book about her life? It is great, and you should all get right on that if you haven’t already.
Jeanne Manford, the founder of PFLAG, died today in her home in California. She was 92. From The Advocate: “One of Manford’s sons, the late Morty Manford, was gay. He was beaten during a Gay Activists Alliance demonstration in April 1972, and police failed to intervene. She wrote a letter to the New York Post, published April 29, 1972, in which she stated, ‘I have a homosexual son, and I love him.’ Her letter sparked a groundswell of response, and less than two months later, she joined her son at the Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade. Her participation and the affirmations she received from others eventually led to the beginning of PFLAG.”
May she rest peacefully. We will never forget this kind, beautiful soul for all she did.
