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"Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these – 'Chloe liked Olivia...' Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women." [this tumblr collects posts about inspirational women, modern women, & historical women; fictional women & mythical women; female leaders, revolutionaries & pioneers; women scientists, artists, athletes, activists, entertainers, warriors & educators; femslash ships, women liking women, women loving women, lesbians, female friendship, feminism, motherhood & sisterhood.]

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Taraji P. Henson attends the 89th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood & Highland Center on February 26, 2017 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Steve Granitz/WireImage)

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People are turning Mitch McConnell’s dig against Elizabeth Warren into a feminist rallying cry

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Ava DuVernay photographed by Jeremy Liebman for Details.

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Style.

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Portraits of the women of Botswana's heavy metal subculture

South African photographer Paul Shiakallis produced a series of photos, “Leathered Skins, Unchained Hearts,” of the “queens” of Botswana’s heavy metal “Marok” scene, mostly in their homes.

The portraits were shot in the Gaborone, the capital city, and display the tension between traditional Botswanan patriarchy and transgressive self-expression. The Maroks cross over with Botswana’s biker scene, which, in turn, borrows elements from the country’s farmers, like leather vests.

http://boingboing.net/2015/12/24/portraits-of-the-women-of-bots.html

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Isabella Rossellini by Jody Rogac for Marie Claire 

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Lupita Nyong'o photographed by Peter Lindbergh for the Pirelli Calendar

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Nusch Éluard and Sonia Mossé, musvintes and artists,  1936

by Man Ray, 

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Lucy Liu named 2016 Harvard Artist of the Year | “The students and faculty of the Harvard Foundation are delighted to present the distinguished and much-admired television and film star Lucy Liu with the 2016 Artist of the Year award,” said S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation. “Our student and faculty committee commended her outstanding contributions to the performing arts and her highly-praised humanitarian work as UNICEF Ambassador and other charitable projects.”

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Billie Holiday, a 1952 portrait by Bob Willoughby

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Romania Set for First Female, and First Muslim, Prime Minister

BUCHAREST, Romania — In a surprise move, Romania’s largest political party nominated a woman from the country’s Tatar minority for prime minister on Wednesday. If she wins approval from the president and Parliament, she will be both the first Muslim and the first woman to hold the post.

The Social Democratic Party scored a resounding victory in the Dec. 11 general election, winning more than 45 percent of the vote. Together with its smaller ally, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats, it holds a majority of the seats in Parliament.

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I found this picture of two dancing women that are obviously lesbians in a magazine. By Ludwig von Zumbusch, 1897.

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This picture of Kate Bush is probably the greatest picture of all time

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Yes

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These are the women who are playing crucial roles at Standing Rock – in photos

“Over the course of hundreds of years our story has been written by non-native people — anthropologists, academics, journalists — coming into our communities and telling our stories for us. Now the mission is to get away from that cycle of extractive storytelling.”

Photos: Terray Sylvester

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A Supremes Christmas, Detroit, 1960′s

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Jazz pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams playing in a New York club, 1946, photo by William P. Gottlieb

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Big Band singers Doris Day and Kitty Kallen in Central Park, New York City, April 1947, photo by William P. Gottlieb

Doris Day was a singer with the Les Brown Band 1945-47. Because of her popularity as a singer she was offered a role in her first film Romance on the High Seas, 1948, a big Technicolor musical, after Betty Hutton bowed out. And the rest, as they say, is history.