A celebration of Women

(It isn't real feminism unless it's intersectional!) Film heavy but also includes: Influential women/ Historical feminist events/Civil Rights/Female struggles/Oppression/Important women/Fictional women/ Women supporting women.

[zoirohs]

UNION PACIFIC (1939) dir. Cecil B. DeMille

[laurapetrie]

NATALIE WOOD & PAUL NEWMAN with their Golden Globes for World's Favorite Actress and Actor, 1966

[r0semultiverse]

Like music to my ears

[comiccontext-deactivated2023100]

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I think this is so neat and to all my trans followers - if you ever need help remembering just how valid and real you are, please look at this!

Coloring the Past

Colorizing queer and trans history

Happy Trans Day of Visibility to you all, trans people have always existed and will always exist, you're valid and loved and completely accepted with me and I support and love you to the moon and back and beyond.

[actualrulerofdead]

So, I reblogged this a sec ago and then started reading (bad habit, I know). Something I’ve noticed is 1. we’ve been here far longer than people think. Trans people have existed for years and years and years. and 2. A lot of these people hit their 70s/80s. They were trans youth, adults, elders. Jackie Shane (1940-2019), colonel Amelio Robles Ávila (1889-1984),  Stormé DeLarverie (1920-2014),  Christine Jorgensen (1926-1989), and a few more in this source alone. 

We lived. We were alive.  We live. We are alive.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility to you all, dear friends. We are alive<3

[emmaharwoods]

MICHELLE YEOH — wins the award for Best Actress for her performance in “Everything Everywhere All At Once” at the 95th Annual Academy Awards (March 12, 2023)

[marvellegends]

Deadpool (2016)

[wells-hannah]

SHE’S THE MAN ( 2006 ) ↳ dir. Andy Fickman

[diioonysus]

moko kauae in vintage photos

[marcos--budt]

[marcos--budt]

More links, PLEASE reblog or repost and add more resources: OHCHR - Iran: Women and girls treated as second class citizens, reforms urgently needed, says UN expert Iran: Where the regime opposes women’s rights Read: The Wind In My Hair - My Fight For Freedom in Modern Iran by Masih Alinejad

Watch: Kiosk - Sweet Destiny (the movie) I don’t think I’ve ever asked my followers to reblog anything but this time it would mean. The actual world. To the people of Iran. If you could spread awareness of the Iranian people’s fight for freedom right now. I’m not on Twitter or Instagram (although this post is optimized for instagram so PLEASE FEEL FREE TO REPOST IT ON IG) but from what I could see there is not as much noise about this as it should be. Nor is it easy to find posts with resources and basic information. And on tumblr I’ve only seen some posts from dedicated feminist blogs or actual Iranians. And from what I’ve gathered they NEED US to share what’s going on. They are shutting down internet in Iran so it’s up to us to not let the world look past this, not this time. PLEASE join the fight for women’s rights!!!

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@silvery-luna @milkyway-ashes​ @goldieisontheinternet @aftabkaran

[godofstory]

Instagram ,whatsapp,twitter,telegram,facebook and all the other social medias are filter;internet is banned and I’m using proxies to go around it but many many maaany ppl don’t have access to internet right now and are dying on streets

[rhettroblues]

Joan Crawford as Louise Howell POSSESSED 1947 | dir. Curtis Bernhardt

[nataliawoods]

omg no :’(

[stars-bean]

Roman Holiday (1953) dir. William Wyler

[mmmm-books]

Can’t believe Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice in the 2000s

And in 2015 Emily Brontë released literary clsssic Wuthering Heights

Thank God someone paved the way for them…

[nitrosplicer]

if you think jk was the first woman author, you don’t actually care about women authors.

[syrupie]

Mary Shelley didnt fuck on her parents graves for this level of disrespect

[adrianainthesnow]

Murasaki Shikibu didn’t invent the novel for this.

[steakplissken]

Christine de Pizan did not sit down at her desk and write The Book of the City of Ladies, advocating for women’s education and finding value in women of all social classes and backgrounds, in 1405 for this.

[ailorian]

🎶SHAHARIZADE HAD A THOUSAND TALES🎶

[captainlordauditor]

This……….isn’t even true in 20th century fantasy or childrens books? Pierce, Lackey, Applegate, McCaffrey, Bradley, Butler, whomst?

[amuseoffyre]

Casual reminder that

a woman was the first known author/poet in 2300BC - Enheduanna

the first novel in recorded history was written by a woman in 1010AD - Murasaki Shikibu

the earliest example of science fiction was written by a woman in 1666 - Margaret Cavendish

horror science fiction was popularised by a teenage girl in 1818 - Mary Shelley

a Scotswoman expanded childrens’ stories from moralising tales into anarchic adventures in the mid 1800s, well before it became popular in the early 20th century - Catherine Sinclair

the masked/costumed hero archetype that inspired Batman and Zorro was created by a woman in 1905 - Baroness Emma Orczy

And while she is problematic as all get out, we all know who is to blame for popularising Boarding School fiction (which is a huge inspiration of She Who Must Not Be Named) from the 1930s onwards - Enid Blyton

[khadij-al-kubra]

And do I even need to mention what a badass pioneer Ursula Le Guin was for women author in the fantasy/sci-fi genre?

[impatentpending]

Not to mention Agatha Christie is literally second only to Shakespeare in terms of works sold – 4 billion compared to JKR’s paltry 500 million 

[20xbetterthanu]

Mary Shelly did what

[pineappletheatrekid]

Mary.Shelly.Lost.Her.Virginity.On.Her.Parent’s.Grave.

[humansofnewyork]

“I was just a girl from Poland. But I wasn’t afraid when I came here. It was like a big, beautiful machine to me. The energy, the madness of it. On my very first day I stood on the corner of Broadway and 44th Street. People were screaming and yelling. All of it was beautiful, even the bad stuff. Back home it had been so strict. Everything by the book. But here you had the freedom. Right away I was thinking: ‘This is my city. I want to be a part of it.’ I got my first job working at a delicious German bakery. I didn’t speak any English. But I have a photographic memory. Anything I can see, I can do. I learn to make everything: the candies, the cookies. Even the perfect little Easter Bunnies. Then one day I see an advertisement in the New York Times. I opened right to the page: ‘Sandler’s Chocolate Shop for sale.’ It felt like destiny. I do my research in the old way. For two weeks I stood across the street from the shop and counted all the people. Then I tell Mr. Sandler: I am ready to buy the store. I memorized the recipe of all the chocolates. I learned the taste of each of them. I have a thing for colors. When I’m surrounded by colors, my whole body shakes. So I chose all the perfect colored boxes. My mother came to work with me every day. We fight, but ‘love fight.’ The fight of stupid things. We were very close. More like sisters. We knew everything that needed to be done, even without speaking. For 25 years we run the shop together. She’s been gone for seven years now. I miss her very much. And without her it is much more work, but I am trying my best. For 32 years this has been my normal life. Doing the chocolate and the cookies. It has always felt like normal thing to me. Like I’m just one of millions. Ordinary girl doing her job. That’s the way I was thinking. But recently people are coming in here every day, they are saying: ‘You cannot go down. We will miss you.’ I never realize how much the people likes me, and this makes me extremely proud. Do you know what they say to me? All the people? They tell me: ‘Kamila, we need you here.’ Can you imagine that? Me, just a girl from Poland. They say: ‘You are part of New York. The city needs you.’” Like so many other business owners, Kamila fell into a giant sinkhole with her rent during the pandemic. She worked out a deal with her landlord, but still owes nearly $100,000. If anyone would like to help Kamila save her 32 year old business, Kamila’s friends have created a GoFundMe for her: https://bit.ly/MyzelsChocolates  

And if anyone would like to get New York’s tastiest chocolates and candies for Valentines Day, you can visit Kamila at Myzel’s Chocolates on 140 W. 55th.

[fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors]

😭 😭 😭

37 years after Barbra Streisand won the Golden Globe for Best Director, becoming the first woman to do so for her film Yentl, Streisand congratulates Chloé Zhao for becoming the second woman winner (and first woman of colour) for directing Nomadland.

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

Lainey Molnar

[sophiaforevs]

My favorite thing about this is that the “traditional” woman isn’t always on the left. By switching it up the artist is really committing to the idea that the right way for a woman to be is however she wants.

[wazzuppp10]

Just wish some of the women were plus size..

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

I really love how much Lainey’s art and positivity is bringing people joy and I really hope you’re checking out her insta, it’s full of so many more

[standing-in-the-rain29]

It got better

[lemntri]

Okay I haven’t reblogged this addition

[gryffindorhealer]

These are thought-provoking posts.