WOMEN ARE PREY ANIMALS UNDER PATRIARCHY: Domestic Violence Is The Most Common Killer Of Women Around The World

The United Nations confirms what we always suspected: Domestic Violence Is The Most Common Killer Of Women Around The World — Read on m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5bfbf61ee4b0eb6d931142ac/amp "Geographically, Asia had the most female homicides (20,000) perpetrated by intimate partners or family members in 2017, followed by Africa (19,000), North and South America (8,000), Europe (3,000) and Oceania (300). … Continue reading WOMEN ARE PREY ANIMALS UNDER PATRIARCHY: Domestic Violence Is The Most Common Killer Of Women Around The World

Queen Of The Stone Age: Dorothy Garrod And The Professionalization Of Archaeology

Professional women in fields dominated by men have struggled from the outset against many barriers--from being denied opportunities to study, to having their work trivialized, marginalized and outright forgotten. Sometimes, however, a woman successfully enters a male world and lives to tell the tale...or sing a song of woe, as the case may be! Women … Continue reading Queen Of The Stone Age: Dorothy Garrod And The Professionalization Of Archaeology

Mona Eltahawy: Civility Will Not Overturn the Patriarchy | Literary Hub

Eltahawy's new book, Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls, unmasks the power of refusing to "Be Nice", as she shows how polite civility suppresses women's voices against oppression. She brings insights from global female activism that illustrate the power of reclaiming verbal outrage.  Mona Eltahawy argues for the power of female profanity as she mines … Continue reading Mona Eltahawy: Civility Will Not Overturn the Patriarchy | Literary Hub

Women: A Mother’s Story

Here, from images in Twitter from the wonderful folks sharing medieval and women's history in art, is something of a visual fairy tale...and the women lived happily ever after, as the Bible would say, "troubled by violent men no more..." https://videopress.com/v/KBi76e6R A Mother's Story: Medieval Women and Morefrom Twitter

WOMENS ISSUES BLACK HOLES: Dr. Katie Bouman of MIT, Magnificence and Misogyny

Black Hole

For one hundred years, scientists starting Einstein, have predicated the existence of "Black Holes" (seen above in first picture ever!), a cosmic conundrum where all light and matter disappear into a well of gravity so powerful nothing can escape it. Well, now, thanks to Dr. Katie Bouman of MIT and her interdisciplinary team, we can … Continue reading WOMENS ISSUES BLACK HOLES: Dr. Katie Bouman of MIT, Magnificence and Misogyny

WOMEN New Photograph of a Young Harriet “Moses” Tubman Shared by the Smithsonian Institution

Taken around 1868 and found in an album kept by a comrade Abolitionist, Tubman is seen here in youthful middle-age (perhaps early 40s), showing a calm strength and self-possessed manner. Other extant photographs show her as an old and frail woman; in this new photo, she radiates power and purpose. See her here: apple.news/Ar8SMnS_QRyq3Jcdum_Z3zw

Great Reads by Fantastic Women in Celebration of International Women’s Day

March 8th is International Women’s Day, a day set aside to celebrate women, their rights, and their contributions to the world. In honor of this auspicious day, we bring you five excellent reads by women from our sister site Longreads. Explore the lives of history’s most adorably diabolical monarchs with  Anne Thériault ; find out about Dolly … Continue reading Great Reads by Fantastic Women in Celebration of International Women’s Day