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No. 752532
Ladies, quick, get in here and post women!
Women's History Month is the month of March.
In the face of constant adversary, women have proved again and again throughout history how capable, resilient and resourceful we are.
So let's celebrate women from all times, all cultures and all accomplishments.
Post writers, politicians, activists, artists, scientists, programmers, athletes, musicians, or even just
brag about the women in your own life you're inspired by.
Post their work too, and any female-positive or female-centred resources you might want to share.
>If you see a post about a woman with political, social or religious views you're against, please do not respond to it. This only derails, instead post a woman who opposes those views.
>No posts about men, only references if they're relevant to the woman you're posting about.
>Feel free to ask about women in a certain area you want to learn more about. (i.e. 'any notable women who fought in WW2?').
>Your post doesn't have to be paragraphs of information, you can post as little as her name and greatest accomplishment.
No. 752539
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>>752534Not a derail at all anon, care to share any of her videos?
I love Alice Eastwood. She was an American/Canadian botanist from the late 1800's. During the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, she alone risked her life to save plant specimens from the California Academy of Sciences. She then went on to rebuild the collection to almost 3 times the original size. She was also one of only two women listed in 'American Men of Science' to be denoted as being considered to be among the top 25% of professionals in their discipline. Total flower queen.
No. 752552
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>>752534She was an amazing woman, she wasn't just a woman who spoke with common sense but was an incredibly accomplished human being, she was the first amateur Scottish boxer to win the Haringey Cup(the biggest amateur boxing event in Europe) and was credited as a pioneer for womens boxing in Scotland, she was a genius level programmer(her main occupation was as a software devolper)
I mean there's so much shit she did in her short but glorious life
No. 752558
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Some books I'll be checking out this month. Super excited to finally read She-Wolves.
>>752554facts.
No. 752562
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Henrietta Lacks. What happened to her and her family is a nightmare, but it was her cells that were an immeasurable contribution to medicine. I hope her story is never forgotten, and that in a medical world where women are often disregarded her story offers as a victim of insane malpractice all the more reason for women to be taken seriously and with respect.
No. 752576
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Mary Ann Evans a.k.a. George Eliot. One of the GOATs of literature.
No. 752601
all of my classic literature favourites! mary wollstonecraft, mary shelley, anna letitia barbauld, katherine mansfield, jane austen, the bronte sisters, jean rhys, virginia woolf, charlotte smith, christina rossetti, sylvia plath… so many of these are some of my favourite authors and poets, and are such a source of comfort to me as a mentally ill weird bitch who loves romance. i love that their works are still so relatable in this day and age. at the risk of sounding like a twitfag - it's a very white list and i'm sorry for that, but i would love recommendations of classic/modern literature from women of colour!
No. 752619
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Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris. Originally I was just going to post about Emmylou but I really love this photo of all three of them and they’re all incredibly talented. They’ve also contributed towards supporting women, adoption, gay rights, and health organizations.
No. 752624
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I've loved Florence Welch for years and I finally got to see her live 2 years ago. She inspires me so much with her poetry and her soul seems to shine really brightly. Her journey of becoming sober has also really motivated me to clean up my own act
No. 752631
>>752601Nowadays I find the overwhelming majority of literature I actually enjoy is written by women. I couldn't actually tell you why, I need to sit down and analysis it one day.
Anyway, never tried poetry and I want to, what poetry book would you recommend most?
>>752624That's great anon, I'm glad you're trying to take better care of yourself.
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You know who derseves more attention WW1/WW2 Nurses, like the fact there hasn't been a film about these women who suffered for their nations with blood and sweat is criminal
I feel like both men and even feminists sorta underplay how important they were for the war effort
No. 752654
>>752631i absolutely love sylvia plath's poetry collections! there are a lot of different ones out there but i would recommend her own collection, ariel - specifically the one published in 2004 that was re-edited by sylvia's daughter to match the original order of poems. i feel like it's a good place to start and it has a few of my favourites, including lady lazarus and lesbos.
i'm not so good at recommending poetry collections for older poets because i find it difficult to find collections that aren't overly pretentious and/or lacking in substance, if there are even published collections in the first place. however, penguin and oxford classics are usually reliable. for poets like emily dickinson (who i didn't mention in my OP but should have), anna letitia barbauld, and christina rossetti, i would just look up their poems on poetryfoundation.org or poetryarchive.org and go from there. (that being said, my favourite by rossetti is goblin market, and my favourite by barbauld is a summer evening's meditation!)
No. 752677
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Yuki Kajiura.
Prolific anime composer that no one (in the west) talks about. She’s the woman behind some the most iconic anime’s OST the past two decades. Madoka Magica, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles, Fate series, Mobile Suit Gundam, Demon Slayer, SAO, many OP/ED and inserts in other high budget productions. She worked as a system engineer before turning to music in her 30’s.
It’s just magical falling in love with the music from vastly different animes and finding out that it’s from the same woman. I just love her work!
No. 752698
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A site I've always enjoyed reading is Rejected Princesses. The author does short art or comic-style entries on impressive women throughout history. It's a great jumping off point for anyone who wants to dive into more reading about these figures. One of my favorites that's been posted is Julie d’Aubigny.
>Lived in the 17th century
>Dressed in men's clothes and was an accomplished swordswoman
>Bisexual with many lovers
>Joined a convent to be with one of said lovers then set it on fire to elope
>Was sentenced to death but got a former boy toy to revoke it
>Traveled to Paris and became a famous opera star
>Dueled three men outside the royal palace and defeated all of them. King Louis XIV was so amused he pardoned her but she had to run off to Brussels for a while where she took yet another lover
No. 752740
>>752539I would love to, but I really don't want to derail with GC/Radfem things. As
>>752552 mentioned, she's an amazing woman, and it's honestly thanks to her that I was able to be a better woman, lol.
No. 752741
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Marilyn Monroe, probably not the first to create the “dumb blonde” trope but has certainly made it iconic in American entertainment.
I also think she’s pretty and deserves to be here
No. 752745
>>752741She was kind of forced into the trope and constantly fought with directors so that they will give her characters actual depth. You can really see that in many of her movies, like the Bus Stop. I don't remember if she was responsible for any changes to the script, but she played Cherie in a really captivating way.
For movies in which she plays complicated characters, see Misfits, Don't Bother to Knock and probably something else I forgot about ATM.
She was everything: beautiful, smart, well-read, mentally ill (BPD, probably), humble and a hard worker (she was constantly going to acting lessons).
I recommend reading a biography on her, though be careful cause a lot of them contain rumours and other bullshit. I know that Donald Spoto's is considered one of the best. There is also Marilyn's autobiography - she was one of the first public figures, I think, that spoke about sexual abuse they went through.
Oh and Carol Joyce Oates' Blonde is a BRILLIANT feminist take on what it meant to be Marilyn and what it takes to be a woman in general, but remember that it's fiction (ie Marilyn never had abortions, quite the opposite - she desperately wanted to have a baby).
No. 752783
>>752771I loved your post anon, also in love with that painting of her. Thanks for sharing!
>>752677So talented, I'm a big fan of her work too.
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>>752779She's a technical successor to them by virtue of being a sexy blonde, but the breathy baby woman that Marilyn played was nothing like their characters. Pre-50's sexpots were very sexually commanding and confident. Mae West's whole persona was basically 'yeah I love to fuck, wanna fight about it?' and Harlowe played a lot of borderline demonic temptresses. The Marilyn character is like an overdeveloped little girl who drinks and sometimes overexposes herself. What I'm saying is that the 1950s were garbage.
No. 752822
>>752803I fucking love Marilyn's persona because of how she really was this person stuck between what men wanted her to be (a hot, dumb blonde) and an extremely emotionally vulnerable and fragile woman, who was also smarter than she let people on.
Mae West was absolutely badass, need to get into her more. Have you seen Sextette though because I still can't believe that it exists?
No. 752830
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I typically don't fangirl over celebs, but I've always really liked Angelina Jolie. Of course gossip rags have assigned all sorts of bullshit to her, but I've watched quite a few of her interviews and she always comes across very poised, calm, humble and even a bit shy. There's no doubt she was dealt a great hand in life, but she's one of the few celebs that is genuinely interested in humanitarian causes rather than just doing it for clout. She made the largest private donation the UNHCR had ever received after seeing the effects of war in Cambodia and meeting with Afghan refugees, and she's done so much more since then not only to raise awareness but get resources to vulnerable peoples. Despite having a lot of kids she seems to actually have the money and proper mindset to support them. When you listen to interviews with them talking about their mom they really seem to adore and admire her. She has stated more than once that having kids grounded her and she's focused on involving them in her work (as much as they want to be involved). She's made and directed her own movies. And she's done all this while under scrutiny of the public eye, having faced a double mastectomy, losing her mom and separating from her husband likely due to alcohol-fueled abuse (yet she's never gone on a tirade against him). I admire her dignity, kindness and strength in the face of difficulties.
No. 752970
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English writer Zadie Smith. She released an award-winning novel when she was 25 and continues to produce critical and richly complex fictional work and essays.
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Thank you OP for this thread, I love how there's all types of women already. I'm going to have fun reading this thread if it doesn't die..
Anna May Wong
>the first Chinese American Hollywood movie star
>i just think she's neat.
No. 753003
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Casey Anthony
>most hated woman in America
>openly got away with murder
No. 753012
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I like Emily Bronte, because she seems to have been autistic like me and she wrote a great novel that I consider one of my favorite books ever
No. 753059
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Lina Maria Hidalgo, she is my areas first county judge who is latina. She massively helped during covid hence being on the front line to mandate masks in Texas when all the dumb republicans were opposed of it. She has greatly helped spread information in our city since she is bilingual. I massively respect her since she's playing with the big dogs and she takes no shit from these old men. Among other things, I look up to her because despite being the second majority in America, latinos are greatly underrepresented without a voice or power to change anything for the community. Happy women's history month!
No. 753113
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Alice Sheldon aka James Tiptree Jr. Legendary short story writer in the sf and speculative fiction genre. A radfem who gained success writing about horrible men while pretending to be a man.
>became successful as "male" writer James Tiptree Jr.
>wrote stories where the male characters were all violent or rapists or autists or incestuous
>male readers ate it up and were like "Wow, what a manly writer. What masculine stories"
>when people (women) started catching on that his stories were actually kinda feminist, male writers started writing articles about how James Tiptree Jr could not possibly be a woman
>Is outed as female programmer, intelligence agent, and painter Alice/Raccoona Sheldon
>embarasses male writers who defended "him", alienates some male fans
>decades later she shoots her vegetable husband in the head and then herself lol
No. 753123
>>753113Was reading about her on Wikipedia this part made me lol
>I am a 61-year-old woman named Alice Sheldon — nickname Alli – solitary by nature but married for 37 years to a very nice man considerably older [Huntington was 12 years her senior], who doesn't read my stuff but is glad I like writing".I got depressed when I learned she shot and killed her husband and then her self but it turned out to be joint suicide that they both agreed to
>In the last years of her life she suffered from depression and heart trouble, while her husband began to lose his eyesight, becoming almost completely blind in 1986. In 1976, then 61-year-old Sheldon wrote Silverberg expressing her desire to end her own life while she was still able-bodied and active, but saying that she was reluctant to act upon this intention, as she didn't want to leave her husband behind and couldn't bring herself to kill him. Later she suggested to her husband that they make a suicide pact when their health began to fail. On July 21, 1977, she wrote in her diary: “Ting(her Husbands nickname) agreed to consider suicide in 4–5 years.”
>Ten years later, on May 19, 1987, Sheldon shot her husband and then herself; she telephoned her attorney after the first shooting to announce her actions. They were found dead, hand-in-hand in bed, in their Virginia home.Honestly couple goals
No. 753184
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>>753177>>753168>If you see a post about a woman with political, social or religious views you're against, please do not respond to it. This only derails, instead post a woman who opposes those views.Anyway, posting Anita Borg. She was a very accomplished computer scientist and huge advocate for women in technology spaces. She founded the Institute for Women and Technology and the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. I'm really inspired by how much work she did to create female spaces in tech.
No. 753212
>>753177>>753174I mean she didnt want to spend the last years of her life as a senile, weak old woman and her husband would have likely died before her as well, She probably knew that
she wanted to die with the man she loved while she was still of able body and mind, and he agreed with it, you might disagree with them but they must have got each other and I find that oddly romantic
No. 753509
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Sofonisba Anguissola. She'll always be my favorite female artist. I know there are more talented artists throughout history but her works and background always fascinated me. She was friends with fucking Michelangelo! And even better, he gave her advice and feedback through correspondence, even giving her sketches from his personal sketchbook for her to do in her own style. That just blows my mind. It's also comforting to know that she (along with other famous artists of the day, both male and female) married when she was 40. Sometimes I feel like I'll end up like her. She also lived to be 93, which, in those days, was a fucking miracle.
No. 753556
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Laskarina Pinotsi (aka, Laskarina Bouboulina), Stacy pirate queen of the Mediterranean
>Born in an Ottoman prison to a sea captain and his wife
>Married twice, second time to a shipowner and captain Dimitrios Bouboulis (whose surname she took)
>He dies, she takes over his fortune and builds four more ships at her own expense, including the warship Agamemnon
>Ottomans try to take her property because her second husband fought for the Russians against them
>She fucks off to Crimea, buys lots of weapons, joins a Greek resistance movement (for the Anglos: the Ottoman Empire had ruled over the Balkans for almost 500 years, in most cases treating the locals like slaves, stealing children to train into Janissary soldiers and raping brides)
>Recruits her own soldiers and sails the Agamemnon along with eight other ships to stage a naval blockade against the Turks
>Spent all her fortune liberating Greece from the Ottomans
>Was killed in a family feud when elders of the family whose son her daughter eloped with came to seek them out and kill them, she would not let them near her daughter or tell them where the couple is so they shot at her and killed her
No. 753569
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My mom used to buy me these comics as a kid, about famous people of the world. I was very taken with the stories of Helen Keller and Marie Curie. I thought they had super powers lol and I suppose they were real wonder women.
Anybody seen the Marie Curie movie Radioactive with Rosamund Pike? Was it good?
No. 753627
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I appreciate my mom and my sisters, they’re amazing and I love them very much.
I appreciate farmers for always making me laugh and giving me a woman only space that I didn’t realize I needed.
And I appreciate Annie Oakley for teaching self defense to so many women and being a general badass
No. 755595
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I fucking love Fran Drescher. She's so inspirational to me, reading about the shit she's been through just makes me see her as an even stronger person than I thought of before knowing. I originally looked up to her because of the situation with her ex-husband coming out as gay and being able to move on as best friends, I had a similar circumstance myself (thankfully it didn't go as far as marriage) and it helped me feel less alone coping with that.
No. 755659
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in this house we love and honor Joan of Arc
lived with psychosis as a child and used it to fuckin save France. Dressed as a man so she could travel (to war) safely as a 16-17 year old girl and not get raped. Showed up, promptly kicked English ass, and after several victories (and injury) got captured.
They put her in jail, run her through a bullshit inquisition-style trial and this illiterate peasant girl outsmarts the priests at every question. They couldn't pin her on straight-out heresy (she was annoyingly devout), so under threat of immediate execution they made her sign an oath (that she couldn't read) not to wear men's clothing ever again.
Then they either tried to rape her, or took away her clothing and gave her only men's clothes to wear (sources disagree exactly what trick they played.) She put on men's clothes to protect herself from rape, they charged her with relapsing into heresy, and burned her at the stake. She was 19 when she died. Her trial was so unfair and so falsified that it was used as evidence to support her canonization.
Joan of Arc was untouchable and men killed her for it.
No. 755669
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I kneel
No. 755675
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An OG baddie. Watching her doc on Netflix made me cry like a little bitch. Whitney went thru so much in her life, and truly was the queen of not giving a fuck. Wish I could be as unbothered as her. A voice that moves me to tears, and just an overall epic pop culture icon. What a legend.
No. 755693
>>755675I fucking love Whitney. She was a phenomenal artist, and made it all seem effortless.
Please listen to the season of episodes on her on The Opus podcast - they also just wrapped up a series of episodes on Janis Joplin, another badass lady who was gone too soon.