Jul 19, 2017
13th Doctor Jodie Whittaker
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13th Doctor Jodie Whittaker
I am so excited about Rose and Paige!!!! I love these rebel girls already!
Hi All!
To celebrate the first anniversary of the 100Days100Women Project I'm drawing...
100 more women.
Yes! From August to November, 100 women, one a day, rebels, fighters, scientists, artists, iconoclasts and more.
I had been thinking a lot about it, as the year-mark approaches, and doing the 2016 project was such joy. The 2016 project was full of so much hope, in anticipation of something that didn't happen. Not only did it not happen, but misogyny, bigotry, cruelty and intolerance seemed to win the day. In that light, this list's overarching spirit will be resistance, willfulness, scrappiness and rule-breaking (and, of course, hope and wonder will still play a big part).
Because, while I was deciding to do this, I kept thinking about just...not leaving that hope hanging, and the necessity to say, "we carry-on, we fight, we persist, always have, always WILL". And very personally, it is also that *I* do those things as well; the acknowledgment of the back-and-forth of changing the world as it changes you, and rebounding from setbacks.
Central to this (as well as the first project) is the idea of reclaiming history. I have a very personal connection to the difference a little forgotten history can make, and I never want to shake it. 1984 put it succinctly: "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." I have this bit of signal, here in the present, and I intend to use it! Bringing people who, by the common thought, aren't supposed to exist, let alone make history, to the fore is a task I'm just not done with, especially now, when the very hope of an inclusive, better world is under open and increasing attack. (Also, when I stumble upon "fake history" I'll post about it and how to recognize it.)
In addition to all the above this new project will allow me to draw attention to so many of the women I wasn't able to fit on the original 100 list. But fear not! Though I have hundreds of names, I still want your suggestions!
So please join me on this journey to reclaim history together!
If you have suggestions, interview requests or other inquiries, please email me at [email protected]
*100Days100Women information is taken from sources on the internet and in my personal library. Though I research each drawing, some artistic liberties are taken with dress and props. History is something I love, but I am not an historian, but an artist attempting to bring forgotten history to the fore, and to pique your curiosity for more info! I encourage everyone to find out more about these amazing women!
#100Days100Women Day 1: Harriet Tubman A 5ft tall former slave, she freed at least a thousand enslaved people, used folk medicine to great outcome as a nurse, spied, and made daring raids on southern assets: http://www.harriet-tubman.org
(And she f-ing deserves to be on all the money) *100Days100Women information is taken from sources on the internet and in my personal library. Though I research each drawing, some artistic liberties are taken with dress and props. History is something I love, but I am not an historian, but an artist attempting to bring forgotten history to the fore, and to pique your curiosity for more info! I encourage everyone to find out more about these amazing women!
#100Days100Women Day 2: Irena Sendlerowa (or Sendler), a Polish-Catholic social worker who saved thousands of people, mostly children, from Nazis. She posed as a nurse/health inspector in the Warsaw Ghetto and smuggled children out in boxes, bags, through the sewer system (and managed other operatives, primarily women, doing the same). The rescued children were “adopted” to families with the help of a church. Irena recorded their information and hid it in jars in her garden so they might be reunited with their families after the war. She was later captured and tortured, but never gave up any of the families or others in the resistance. She passed away only in 2008, having lived to the age of 98. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irena_Sendler (Here I specify that she saved Jews from the Holocaust (rather then the shorter taglines I prefer) because there are people, even in the highest levels of the American government, who would diminish or deny what the Nazi’s did and what they were about. The Holocaust was real, the nazis knowingly targeted specific people, artists, political dissidents, Roma, Poles, Slavs, Afro-Germans, the disabled, the queer, and their primary targets: Jewish people, all first dehumanized in propaganda, systematically stripped of rights, rounded up, then shipped to death camps. The numbers are unimaginable, but just because something is unimaginable doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.)
*100Days100Women information is taken from sources on the internet and in my personal library. Though I research each drawing, some artistic liberties are taken with dress and props. History is something I love, but I am not an historian, but an artist attempting to bring forgotten history to the fore, and to pique your curiosity for more info! I encourage everyone to find out more about these amazing women!
#100Days100Women Day 6: Taytu Betul, brilliant Ethiopian empress fought against Italian colonial invasion, including planning the battle, strategy, and commanding cannoneers (and winning!). She also founded Addis Ababa, picking the site and building there. She wielded great power, and was in many ways a co-ruler with her husband, with him often deferring to her to say "no" so he could remain beloved while she was seen as a hard-customer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taytu_Betul
*100Days100Women information is taken from sources on the internet and in my personal library. Though I research each drawing, some artistic liberties are taken with dress and props. History is something I love, but I am not an historian, but an artist attempting to bring forgotten history to the fore, and to pique your curiosity for more info! I encourage everyone to find out more about these amazing women!
#100Days100Women Day 8 Sayyid al Hurran, Andalus/Moroccan ruler of Tétouan got revenge and riches as a pirate queen, effectively controlling all movement in the Western Mediterranean she partnered with the corsair Barbarossa to rule the Eastern Mediterranean as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyida_al_Hurra http://www.wisemuslimwomen.org/muslimwomen/bio/sayyida_al-hurra/ — with Women's Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality.
*100Days100Women information is taken from sources on the internet and in my personal library. Though I research each drawing, some artistic liberties are taken with dress and props. History is something I love, but I am not an historian, but an artist attempting to bring forgotten history to the fore, and to pique your curiosity for more info! I encourage everyone to find out more about these amazing women!
I <3 Aubrey!
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