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#picturethis: Remembering the Kurdish uprising of 1991 on BBC news
By feimineach / in #picturethis, #quickhits / April 9, 2016#picturethis: Remembering the Kurdish uprising of 1991 on BBC news:After more than a month of intensive air attacks and a short land offensive by the US-led coalition against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, th...
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#picturethis: “I’ve named her Scholastica”
By feimineach / in #picturethis, #quickhits / March 28, 2016Intro: In Tanzania, girls are traditionally married off before they are 18. In childbirth, they routinely lack access to lifesaving cesareans and medical treatment. Despite this, young women are darin...
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#picturethis: Afghanistan’s first woman street artist brings burqas and feminism to city walls – @badgirlpripri
By feimineach / in #picturethis, #quickhits / February 18, 2016#picturethis: Afghanistan’s first woman street artist brings burqas and feminism to city walls - @badgirlpripri From the HuffPo:A woman in a purple hijab sits playing the piano, a tear rolling down...
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#picturethis: #anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: soldiers in petticoats: portraits of the suffragettes
By feimineach / in #feminism, #picturethis, #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / June 25, 2015Mounted on horseback, dressed in white robes, marching on the Royal Albert Hall, this was a pivotal time for the suffragette movement, captured by one of the UK’s first press photographers, Christina ...
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#picturethis: Soldiers in petticoats: portraits of the suffragettes
By feimineach / in #feminism, #picturethis, #quickhits / June 19, 2015Soldiers in petticoats: portraits of the suffragettes – in pictures All photographs: Christina Broom/Museum of London (via the guardian). [gallery link="none" size="full" type="slideshow" ids="21325...
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#picturethis: #anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: women and the sidewalks of New York
By feimineach / in #feminism, #picturethis, #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / March 19, 2015From the HuffPo:New York sidewalks and chalk have been partners with the city’s women for generations. Setting the scene for childhood games of hopscotch and jump rope, chalking on the city’s pavement...
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#picturethis: #anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: 100 Years Ago, The 1913 Women’s Suffrage Parade (Washington DC)
By feimineach / in #feminism, #picturethis, #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / March 3, 2013This is an amazing collection of photographs from the Library of Congress. They are from the Women’s Suffrage Parade which took place in Washington DC on the 3rd of March 1913.Captions etc. on the lin...
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