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I'm catching up on some backlogged podcasts, and this one popped up for this morning's walk.
They said they waited a month or so after Carrie Fisher's death to record this tribute podcast so they didn't get too emotional, and yet, listening to this another month later on top of that, I found myself choked up listening. They did a beautiful job celebrating Carrie Fisher's remarkable life as a role model for geeks, for self-rescuing princesses, and for folks dealing with mental illness.
Seriously, if you haven't already listened to this episode, I highly recommend it. +Anomaly Podcast is one of my favorites featuring women in geekdom!
They said they waited a month or so after Carrie Fisher's death to record this tribute podcast so they didn't get too emotional, and yet, listening to this another month later on top of that, I found myself choked up listening. They did a beautiful job celebrating Carrie Fisher's remarkable life as a role model for geeks, for self-rescuing princesses, and for folks dealing with mental illness.
Seriously, if you haven't already listened to this episode, I highly recommend it. +Anomaly Podcast is one of my favorites featuring women in geekdom!
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#morethan28days #melaninmarch #womenshistorymonth #stufftheynevertaughtinschool
Born November 11 1933 in Doornfontein, Johannesburg, Miriam Tlali was the first black South African woman to publish a novel in English within the country’s borders. She is best known for this work, first published as Muriel at Metropolitan in 1975 by Ravan Press.
It was re-issued in 2004 by the title she had preferred from the start, “Between Two Worlds”. Based on her time as an administrative assistant at a furniture store in downtown Johannesburg during the height of apartheid, the novel documents the daily humiliations of petty apartheid.
Tlali was an intersectional feminist long before this term was coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989. Or before intersectional feminist politics was made current in South Africa by the #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall student movements.
Her fiction, at first dismissed by literary critics (mostly men) as too descriptive – they say it had an almost stenographic quality. It is the only work of its time and place that systematically dissects the overlap of apartheid racial discrimination and patriarchal oppression. Tlali’s fiction depicted the intersectional nature of African women’s oppression under both of these systems.
https://mg.co.za/article/2017-03-02-rest-in-power-miriam-tlali-author-enemy-of-apartheid-and-feminist
Born November 11 1933 in Doornfontein, Johannesburg, Miriam Tlali was the first black South African woman to publish a novel in English within the country’s borders. She is best known for this work, first published as Muriel at Metropolitan in 1975 by Ravan Press.
It was re-issued in 2004 by the title she had preferred from the start, “Between Two Worlds”. Based on her time as an administrative assistant at a furniture store in downtown Johannesburg during the height of apartheid, the novel documents the daily humiliations of petty apartheid.
Tlali was an intersectional feminist long before this term was coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989. Or before intersectional feminist politics was made current in South Africa by the #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall student movements.
Her fiction, at first dismissed by literary critics (mostly men) as too descriptive – they say it had an almost stenographic quality. It is the only work of its time and place that systematically dissects the overlap of apartheid racial discrimination and patriarchal oppression. Tlali’s fiction depicted the intersectional nature of African women’s oppression under both of these systems.
https://mg.co.za/article/2017-03-02-rest-in-power-miriam-tlali-author-enemy-of-apartheid-and-feminist
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Katherine Hepburn has long been one of my favorite Golden Age film stars. Her "take no shit" attitude in life always came through loud in clear on screen as well.
And honestly, Woman of the Year is one of my favorite movies of all time.
And honestly, Woman of the Year is one of my favorite movies of all time.
I didn't realize this went up! My article on the amazing Katharine Hepburn for Birth. Movies. Death.
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This is like a badass motorcycle verions of those "Take Back the Night" marches from the 80s!
via +Nila Jones
via +Nila Jones
Women in India are trying to reclaim their right to be out in public without being assaulted.
In the male-dominated capital, female loiterers are rare, female motorcyclists rarer still. Public spaces can be frighteningly bereft of other women, particularly after dark. A 2016 survey of women in Delhi found that just under half of those polled had experienced street harassment in the past year. A quarter of women had quit their jobs in order to avoid harassment, either at the workplace or during their commutes (according to Breakthrough, bus stops and train stations are reported the most unsafe); a third had stopped going out altogether.
The moment women see more women on the streets, it automatically becomes safer
Purva Khetrapal
Government-led campaigns that combat “eve teasing”, as street harassment is known throughout south Asia, have done so largely at the cost of women’s visibility and freedom of movement.
In the male-dominated capital, female loiterers are rare, female motorcyclists rarer still. Public spaces can be frighteningly bereft of other women, particularly after dark. A 2016 survey of women in Delhi found that just under half of those polled had experienced street harassment in the past year. A quarter of women had quit their jobs in order to avoid harassment, either at the workplace or during their commutes (according to Breakthrough, bus stops and train stations are reported the most unsafe); a third had stopped going out altogether.
The moment women see more women on the streets, it automatically becomes safer
Purva Khetrapal
Government-led campaigns that combat “eve teasing”, as street harassment is known throughout south Asia, have done so largely at the cost of women’s visibility and freedom of movement.
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Oh wow. I'm just now catching up on some of the highlights of last night's Oscars, and OMG... that speech by Viola Davis!
Every time I think I have reached peak Viola-love, she just goes and does something wonderful-er.
You can watch the clip here: http://oscar.go.com/video/oscar-highlights-2017/viola-davis-oscars-2017-speech-for-supporting-role
Every time I think I have reached peak Viola-love, she just goes and does something wonderful-er.
You can watch the clip here: http://oscar.go.com/video/oscar-highlights-2017/viola-davis-oscars-2017-speech-for-supporting-role
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#morethan28days #fabulousfebruary #blackopera
Though she is not well known today, Adele Addison was an acclaimed figure in opera in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1952, her debut performance at Town Hall in New York was met with excellent, enthusiastic reviews. “The recital season reached a high point last night,” one critic wrote, “when Adele Addison, soprano from Springfield, Massachusetts, made her debut in Town Hall.”1 Addison’s singing voice was complemented by her performance style, which was rich with emotion and intellectual depth.
Carl Van Vechten photographed Addison in 1955, the year she played Mimi in La Boheme at City Center in New York. Adele Addison’s performance was highly praised by the reviewer from the New York Post, who wrote:
Adele Addison, young Negro soprano, who made her debut with the New York City Opera yesterday afternoon as Mimi in Puccini’s “La Boheme” is about the most appealing interpreter of the little Parisian seamstress yet to appear on the City Center stage. Small, frail looking, and pretty, Miss Addison enhanced these assets by acting and singing with moving poignancy and sincerity.
In 1957, when Addison again performed at Town Hall, Howard Taubman wrote “Adele Addison . . . is developing into an artist of distinction. Her performance last night at Town Hall had high purpose and impressive achievement. . . . [Her] soprano has delicacy of texture and glowing warmth.”
Addison, who studied at Westminster Choir College and The Julliard School, made a number of records, including Bach’s Saint Matthew’s Passion and Handel’s Messiah, under the direction of Leonard Bernstein. She was a voice instructor at several important schools, including the Eastman School of Music and the Manhattan School of Music, where she served as chair of the Voice Department.
http://brbl-archive.library.yale.edu/exhibitions/cvvpw/gallery/addison.html
Though she is not well known today, Adele Addison was an acclaimed figure in opera in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1952, her debut performance at Town Hall in New York was met with excellent, enthusiastic reviews. “The recital season reached a high point last night,” one critic wrote, “when Adele Addison, soprano from Springfield, Massachusetts, made her debut in Town Hall.”1 Addison’s singing voice was complemented by her performance style, which was rich with emotion and intellectual depth.
Carl Van Vechten photographed Addison in 1955, the year she played Mimi in La Boheme at City Center in New York. Adele Addison’s performance was highly praised by the reviewer from the New York Post, who wrote:
Adele Addison, young Negro soprano, who made her debut with the New York City Opera yesterday afternoon as Mimi in Puccini’s “La Boheme” is about the most appealing interpreter of the little Parisian seamstress yet to appear on the City Center stage. Small, frail looking, and pretty, Miss Addison enhanced these assets by acting and singing with moving poignancy and sincerity.
In 1957, when Addison again performed at Town Hall, Howard Taubman wrote “Adele Addison . . . is developing into an artist of distinction. Her performance last night at Town Hall had high purpose and impressive achievement. . . . [Her] soprano has delicacy of texture and glowing warmth.”
Addison, who studied at Westminster Choir College and The Julliard School, made a number of records, including Bach’s Saint Matthew’s Passion and Handel’s Messiah, under the direction of Leonard Bernstein. She was a voice instructor at several important schools, including the Eastman School of Music and the Manhattan School of Music, where she served as chair of the Voice Department.
http://brbl-archive.library.yale.edu/exhibitions/cvvpw/gallery/addison.html
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Good for her!
“This will be my last year. I will be recording, but this will be my last year in concert. This is it.”
It sounds like she's not going to tour anymore. But she says she will do one or two concerts every couple of months. So that's good.
“This will be my last year. I will be recording, but this will be my last year in concert. This is it.”
It sounds like she's not going to tour anymore. But she says she will do one or two concerts every couple of months. So that's good.
Reigning Diva Aretha Franklin Announces Her Retirement http://nym.ag/2k77rrX
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"'Boko Haram know me and fear me,' says Bakari Gombi whose band of hunters has rescued hundreds of men, women and children."
Badass!
Badass!
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You know what's awesome? Waking up to a new trend of folks celebrating amazing, determined, brave women!
She was warned; she persisted
Rage On.
Rage On.
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"King Chatham became an expert of the flight helmet and the lab’s equipment specialist for personal protective gear. She is credited with developing a new pressure helmet that improved an iteration of the 1946 S-1 pressure flight suits, and special ear counter-pressure devices.
"Scientists came to King Chatham with a list of different criteria for different kinds of helmets—one with a breathing tube, a microphone, and an opening for liquid feeding. She would, over several months, fashion experimental models out of rubber, plastics, and fabrics."
"Scientists came to King Chatham with a list of different criteria for different kinds of helmets—one with a breathing tube, a microphone, and an opening for liquid feeding. She would, over several months, fashion experimental models out of rubber, plastics, and fabrics."
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