Some lady from something called Dorohedoro. Idk, I just thought it looked cool.
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Some lady from something called Dorohedoro. Idk, I just thought it looked cool.
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Simone from Star of the Seine.
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from “Why We Have A Body” by Claire Chafee
MARY: That reminds me why I called you up. Last night I had another in my series of Feminist Nightmares.
LILI: Like the one where you’re in a big circle and you have to come to an unanimous decision?
MARY: Right right… only in this dream we were fishing, Lili. The two of us. We were back in Minnesota. We had cut a hole in the ice and made a fire right there to stay warm. On the ice. And we were fishing.
All of a sudden you caught something big. It felt really big. You reeled it in. It was Virginia Woolf. And she was angry, Lili… She was furious. She told you to throw her back in and you said are you sure? and she said, “yes” so you did. And we just sat there and looked up at the stars… the monogamous stars… until I felt a tug, a tiny tug,
…it felt like I had caught something big. And so I reeled it in… And it was… you gotta believe me here, it was Ophelia. In the dream I caught Ophelia. And she was nicer about it but still, she said to throw her back, and I said, “are you sure?” and she just said: “good night… good night good night good night” and started singing. And so I threw her back. We could hear her singing as she sank back under. And we both thought, this is some motherfucking river here we picked.
It really creeped us out. So we turned to the fire to stay warm, but pretty soon we heard something pulling my pole across the ice, so I picked it up and reeled it in and out of the ice came this bright red blob. It was a heart, Lili. Joan of Arc’s… and it was frozen solid.
I held it in my hand until it got warm and started beating again. It got all red and then it spoke. It spoke to me and what it said was really simple.
It told us “fish somewhere else.”
Over the course of 45 years, Culver City, California librarian Mayme Agnew Clayton (August 4, 1923 – October 13, 2006) collected more than 30,000 rare and out-of-print books. She used her own resources and she worked alone. The collection is considered one of the most important for African-American materials and consists of 3.5 million items on the topic of African-American culture. It is the largest privately-held collection of African American historical materials in the world.
Ms. Clayton, you might be my new hero.
(via pseudo-tsuga)
Anne of Green Gables and her friends.
By tinukinoko
Josephine Baker
So important, this one. It’s amazing to see all the various choreographers and artists whose work was influenced by hers.
(via pseudo-tsuga)
Author, activist, visionary, and Nobel Peace Prize winner.
RIP Wangari Maathai (1 April 1940 – 25 September 2011).
“Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system. We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own.”
(Source: , via remembertheladies)
Shampoo and Ukyo from Ranma 1/2
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This collection of images of the women of WWII from The Atlantic is pretty incredible.
(via remembertheladies)
TRIGGER WARNING: for mentions of sexual assault and street harassment.
feminine protection
oh honey honey I’m telling you — a woman’s work is never
done. why that guy who gave me the once-over twice
pumping his hands under his overcoat —
well, his eyes don’t open so well
since I sprayed him in the face with my
Miss Lady Aerosol Pump Superhold Formula Hairspray
and then that guy who felt me up on the subway, well —
blame it on my Lady Eve Press-on Manicure Nails in Sin Red
and something about that kind of fruit, why
that adam’s apple just fell right out
ripe and red into my hand
and that guy on the corner calling me everyday
with his hey baby baby doncha wanna baby baby
doncha wanna piece of me
and I said yeah baby baby yeah I wanna piece of you
and took off a one-inch slab of his tongue
with my Non-slip Grip Lady Schick
and oh those guys who tried to jump
me on the way home oh don’t you know
these things always end in tears
I was so sorry to lose my favorite pair of Foxy Lady
Five-inch Patent Leather Spike Heels — it’s going
to be a while before I get over that one
but a girl’s got to do what a girl’s got to do
and don’t even start me on what happened
the night that guy broke into my sanitary
pad it took me hours to clean off my Curling
Iron, my Nail File, my Tweezers, my Just-For-Me
Sandal Toe Queen Size Control Tops are still hanging out to dry
and what with all the screaming
I’m lucky I didn’t get caught red-
handed with my Pink Comfort-Tip
Scented Double-Barrel Super-Plus Sawed-
Off Tampax but Thank God for
feminine protection.
A girl never knows when she’s gonna need
to soak up some blood.
—Daphne Gottlieb
I was inspired by Womance-anon
A bajillion months ago I made a list of Shows With Awesome Lady Protagonists That I Recommend so here’s the sequel: Bechdel-approved Shows! Recs will be limited to a) anime/manga because that is what I’m digging right now and b) stuff that I have seen/read enough of to be able to knowledgeably recommend it. Also, since the original Bechdel Test was designed for movies, in this case I’m redefining it as “the show in question has ladies who talk to each other on a regular basis about non-dude-related things and have actual developed relationships with each other, and this comprises a substantial portion of the airtime/pagetime.”
Shows That Handily Pass the Bechdel Test:
Shonen/Seinen:
Claymore
Black Lagoon
Negima
Hellsing Crossfire
Soul Eater Not
Slice of Life:
Lucky Star
Azumanga Daioh
Shojo/Josei:
Skip Beat
Tramps Like Us
Girl Friends
Kuragehime
Swan
Magical Girl:
Sailor Moon
Heartcatch Precure
Getsumen to Heiki Mina
Black Rock Shooter
Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt
Uta Kata
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Shamanic Princess
Houkago no Pleiades
Other:
Simoun
Umineko
Higurashi
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Two of my favorite shounen heroes.
A whole posse of vintage magical girls!
Clockwise from bottom: Sally, Lalabel, Mako, Meg, Cutey Honey, Lunlun, and Akko.
In the center: Chappy.
Bebe and Wendy from South Park à la PSG.
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