Unfettered Feminist

Intersectional feminism without the rhetorical dogma. Thoughtful and acceptance based discussion is always welcome. Facebook.com/UnfetteredFeminist - [email protected]

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This Day in Herstory - July 18

1976: Nadia Comăneci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

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This Day in Herstory - July 17

1762: Catherine II becomes tsar of Russia upon the murder of Peter III of Russia.

1794: The sixteen Carmelite Martyrs of Compiègne (11 nuns, three lay sisters and two externs) are executed during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror.

1888: Miriam E. Benjamin patented a gong and signal chair for motels.

1987: The first Johanna Löwenherz Prize was awarded to Simone Veil.

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This Day in Herstory - July 16

1546:Anne Askew was burned at the stake after being tortured in the Tower of London. She was an English poet and Protestant and was condemned as a heretic.

1880: Emily Stowe became the second female physician licensed to practice medicine in Canada, after her classmate Jenny Kidd Trout. However, Stowe had already been practicing in Toronto after receiving her education in the US.

1936: Rose Schneiderman was elected vice chairman of the New York State Labor Party.

1944: Irene Morgan was arrested in Saluda, VA for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Greyhound bus bound for Baltimore (more than ten years before Rosa Parks). She was also charged with resisting arrest after a Middlesex County sheriff and deputy forcibly remove her from the bus. Her case, Morgan vs. Virginia, led to the U.S. Supreme Court handing down a landmark decision banning segregation in interstate travel in 1946.

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This Day in Herstory - July 15

1941: Exiled German Photographer, Jeanne Mandello, arrived in Uruguay.

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This Day in Herstory - July 14

Happy Bastille Day!

1885: Sarah E. Goode became the first African American woman to receive a US patent, which she received for her invention of the cabinet bed.

1917: 16 women from the National Women's Party were arrested while picketing the White House demanding universal women's suffrage; they were charged with obstructing traffic.

1957: Rawya Ateya took her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt,  becoming the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world.

1960: Jane Goodall arrived at the Gombe Stream Reserve, in present-day Tanzania, to begin her famous study of chimpanzees in the wild. 

1992: 386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz beginning the Open Source Operating System Revolution. Linux was released soon after.

2003: Valerie Plame is revealed to be a CIA operative by Washington Post columnist, Robert Novak.

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"i don’t support feminism because i don’t hate men"

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Not just for those in Detroit, but anywhere where the right to water is being restricted or denied!

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hey everyone, this post has only gotten a thousand or so notes and only a single follower of mine has reblogged this from me specifically.

Detroit has been shutting water off for entire neighborhoods regardless of whether people paid bills or not. Even if they didn’t, should that really mean that they should die of thirst? Should there really be a cost to stay alive?

Please, spread this. Link it on other sites so someone down the line who needs this anywhere can take back water, something that should be the right of every human being.

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This Day in Herstory - July 13

1793: Charlotte Corday, French Royalist Girondin sympathizer, murdered Jean Paul Marat, stabbing him in his bath. Marat was a leader in the French Revolution. Correction above, thanks to @lifeisyetfair for pointing out the Royalist/Girondin distinction here.

1979: Women's History Summer Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, organized by Gerda Lerner, took place July 13-29, and led to the founding of Women's History Month as well as the creation of the National Women's History Project.

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i think everyone needs laverne cox as wonder woman in their life

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This Day in History - July 12

1972: Shirley Chisholm, who was the first African American Congresswoman, first major party African American to run for President, and first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination, came in fourth at the Democratic National Convention.

1984: Geraldine Ferraro was chosen as the first female to run for Vice President of the United States on the Democratic Party ticket with Walter Mondale.

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This Day in Herstory - July 11

1960: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee was first published, in the United States. The unforgettable modern classic addressed issues of race, class, and gender in the Deep South.

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Absolutely love the new BeyonceVoters tumblr!!

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This Day in Herstory - June 10

1553: Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England. She was sometimes referred to as “The Nine Days Queen,” as she ruled from July 10 - 19.

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This Day in Herstory - July 9

1900: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom gaves Royal Assent to an act creating Australia, thus uniting separate colonies on the continent under one federal government.

1917: During World War I, Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, leaders of the No-Conscription League, spoke out against the war and the draft. Both were found guilty in New York City of conspiracy against the draft, fined $10,000 each and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment with the possibility of deportation at the end of their terms.

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This Day in Herstory - July 8

1917: The Women's Peace Crusade organized a protest against the first world war in Glasgow, Scotland. Processions from two sides of the city, accompanied by bands and banners, wound their way toward the Glasgow Green where they merged into one demonstration of some 14,000 people.

1948: The United States Air Force accepted its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF).

2001: Venus Williams won her second straight Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship. Venus was the first woman to win consecutive Wimbledon Championships since 1995-96 and the first black woman to win Wimbledon since Althea Gibson in 1958.

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