India suffrage banner (1911) / Created by + for British Indian suffragettes, who played an often ignored role in the suffrage movement.

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India suffrage banner (1911) / Created by + for British Indian suffragettes, who played an often ignored role in the suffrage movement.
I think one of the Worst Things about wanting to find period clothing from other cultures, is trying to find fucking casual/work clothes. Like no, I do not want to see all these fancy intricate kimonos, I want to see jinbei, and field work outfits so I don't put a damn obi on this poor boy so he has a belt to hang his knife from.
ok but i found the best picture ever
look at her she's so cute and happy i love this photo
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This image comes from a whole gallery of Taishō era b&w photos, many of them showing everyday work clothes.
Possibly Lena Tidemand (1882-1957). Zanong (Zawony?) & Damperdortje [uncertain spelling], Mongolia, 1927.
Clark’s Creek Progressive Primitive Baptist Church service in Ararat, Virginia by Thomas Adler (1978)
MARTY GODDARD // ACTIVIST
“She was an American crime victims' advocate who was instrumental in developing the rape test kit, used to methodically collect forensic evidence from victims of rape.”
DJAMILA DEBÉCHE // WRITER
“She was a French-Algerian feminist writer. She was a pioneering journalist and novelist in Algeria, where she was one of the first women writers of the French colonial period.”
1920 c. Four young women posing in evening wraps and shawls. From Pinterest.
Svedrlovsk Telephone Exchange (USSR, 1969)
Fisher women in Whitby, England, late 19th century
ive been thinking and honest to god: i think i would actually join a girl gang if the offer came. like a legitimate, hierarchical, “let’s carry knives under our skirts and beat up men” gang. fuck college
bringing back the sukeban girl gangs from the 70’s that wore long skirts against teen sexualization and fucked things up for the patriarchy
and this was no “5 girls in a small town” who made the news—this was yakuza level shit. 20,000 girls getting into gang fights and shoplifting and getting pissed off that only men were allowed to be rough and violent and angry
and y’all wanna know the funniest part? immediately after this trend blew up, the Men decided to sexualize the hell out of these girls. this included movie adaptations and pornos where the skirts were made shorter and the tits were bigger cause apparently they had found their new fetish
but here’s how they actually looked, and it’s actually pretty badass:
so anyways. who up for a girl gang
1800s-1900s Portraits Of Native American Teen Girls Show Their Unique Beauty And Style (15+ Pics)
I love love love seeing historical/archival photos of people who are not white Christian Europeans :)
this is my fave from the source, tho.
You have no fucking idea how much i love you for the sources.
The caption for the smiley gal up above is “#O-o-be, The Kiowas, 1894”. Come on, if you’re gonna reblog the image, at least give her name and tribe! She’s even got her name on her blanket! Also OMG she’s wearing an elk tooth dress…Having a dad who could gather THAT MANY elk teeth was a sign of high prestige for plains natives, girl’s got bling! I love the rest of the outfit too!
Women in Field Ecology at University of Chicago, 1910 - 1923
Mary Cassatt once stormed out of a Paris gallery, furious — not because her work was rejected, but because it was dismissed as “too feminine to matter.”
It was the 1870s, and Paris was the center of the art world — a place ruled entirely by men. Women weren’t allowed to attend life-drawing classes with nude models, weren’t taken seriously by galleries, and were told to stick to “domestic subjects.” Cassatt, a banker’s daughter from Pennsylvania, didn’t listen. She crossed an ocean, burned through her savings, and vowed to prove them wrong.
At the Paris Salon, critics sneered at her quiet portraits of mothers and children. “Women painting women,” one wrote, “is like birds painting the sky.” Cassatt didn’t respond with words — she responded with rebellion. When she met Edgar Degas, the notoriously arrogant Impressionist, he saw something few others did: rage wrapped in restraint. “There is someone in you,” he told her, “who sees.”
He invited her to join the Impressionist circle — the only American and one of the few women to ever do so. Suddenly, she was painting alongside Monet, Renoir, and Degas — men who captured the world outside. Cassatt captured the world inside — and in doing so, changed what art could say about women.
Her paintings weren’t sentimental. They were psychological, radical. She painted mothers not as saints, but as thinkers — complex, exhausted, human. Her brush turned tenderness into resistance. “I paint women who matter,” she said. “Because no one else will.”
The male critics called her subjects “trivial.” Cassatt knew better. In an era when women couldn’t vote or control their own finances, she painted them reading, teaching, and thinking — acts of quiet revolution. Every canvas was a manifesto disguised as intimacy.
But her defiance didn’t end with her art. When the French government refused to hang works by women in major exhibitions, Cassatt publicly withdrew her own paintings in protest — a scandal that nearly ended her career. “I would rather fail with integrity,” she said, “than succeed with obedience.”
Even her friendship with Degas was complicated — intellectually electric, emotionally brutal. He admired her talent, but never saw her as an equal. “He told me women can’t paint,” she once said. “So I painted until he stopped saying it.”
The hidden story of Mary Cassatt isn’t just about art — it’s about control.
She never married. Never had children. Never softened her edges to fit the mold expected of a “lady painter.” While other artists chased fame, she chased freedom — financial, emotional, creative. “I have touched some people,” she said later. “That is enough immortality for me.”
By the time she was old and nearly blind, her influence had already reshaped modern art. The women she painted — once dismissed as background figures — became central, thinking beings. Every brushstroke declared: the domestic is political.
Today, museums describe her as “the painter of mothers and children.”
But look closer, and you’ll see something else — a woman who used gentleness as rebellion, color as conviction, and beauty as an argument for equality.
She once said, “I have fought to make my own way — it was not easy, but I would have it no other way.”
Mary Cassatt didn’t just paint women at rest.
She painted the quiet revolution of being seen.
Happy Birthday to Mary Anning, the “Mother of Paleontology!” Born on this day in 1799, she hailed from Lyme Regis on the coast of Dorset, England, and grew up collecting fossils. At age 13, she unearthed a skeleton of a giant marine reptile, one of the first ichthyosaurs. In her late twenties, she discovered Dimorphodon, the first pterosaur found outside continental Europe, on the beach cliffs at Lyme Regis. At the time, headlines celebrated Anning and her “flying dragon.” Her discovery proved that these flying reptiles were varied and had a wide range.
Image: Library of Congress
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“Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.” - Eartha Kitt
Lenore Ulric by James Abbe, 1917
Another Broadway Queen, Lenore Ulric who starred in comedy and drama.