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Muslim woman makes impassioned statement in House of Commons
A Muslim woman, Srosh Hassana, taking part in the Daughters of the Vote event on Parliament Hill, addresses islamophobia and xenophobia in an an emotional statement in the House of Commons on International Women’s Day.
"I just decided when someone says you can't do something, do more of it." - Faith Ringgold
Faith Ringgold's Freedom Woman Now (Political Posters) from 1971. In honor of International Women's Day. See more of Ringgold's works at mo.ma/faithringgold
(Cut-and-pasted colored paper on board. The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Endowment for Prints. © 2017 Faith Ringgold/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)
Happy International Women’s Day!
To celebrate we’ll be sharing, throughout the day, a number of artworks by women in the Ashmolean’s collections.
A 'Forest Floor' Still Life of Flowers Oil on canvas by Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750) Bequeathed to the Ashmolean Museum by Daisy Linda Ward in 1939
Rachel Ruysch, according to the artist, was taught by Willem van Aelst. From her studio in Amsterdam, she painted a long succession of flower paintings, several fruit pieces and a number of 'forest floors' of which this is a relatively early example.
“She’s been through more hell then you’ll ever know. But that’s what gives her beauty an edge…You can’t touch a woman who can wear pain like the grandest of diamonds around her neck.“
Happy International Women’s Day from 25 years of strong Nick chicks!
We love your female heroes!
March 8 is International Women's Day and we are super excited to celebrate the women and girls who are fighting for equality and making the world a better place.
Last week we asked you to tell us about your favourite female humanitarians and your feedback amazed us - you sent us so many powerful, passionate and heart-warming replies!
We love how your female heroes inspired you to become activists for a better world.
You can now check out the remarkable women that you and your fellow Messengers of Humanity nominated. Please like and share!
You can see more female heroes on:
Continuing on with honouring brilliant women of colour, this is Youyou Tu. She won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015 for ‘her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against malaria’. Youyou discovered and extracted the substance artemisinin, which inhibits the malaria parasite. Due to Youyou Tu’s discovery, which was hailed as a breakthrough in tropical medicine, millions of people in tropical developing countries have had their lives saved and their health improved.
Youyou’s position as a Nobel Prize laureate made her the first Chinese Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine and the first female citizen of the People’s Republic of China to have received a Nobel Prize in any category. She currently resides in Beijing with her husband, Li Tingzhao, and is Chief Scientist at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
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