Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance

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fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931)

Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a fearless anti-lynching crusader, suffragist, women’s rights advocate, journalist, and speaker. She stands as one of our nation’s most uncompromising leaders and most ardent defenders of democracy. She was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi in 1862 and died in Chicago, Illinois 1931 at the age of sixty-nine.

It was in Memphis where she first began to fight (literally) for racial and gender justice. In 1884 she was asked by the conductor of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company to give up her seat on the train to a white man and ordered her into the smoking or “Jim Crow” car, which was already crowded with other passengers. Despite the 1875 Civil Rights Act banning discrimination on the basis of race, creed, or color, in theaters, hotels, transports, and other public accommodations, several railroad companies defied this congressional mandate and racially segregated its passengers. It is important to realize that her defiant act was before Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the fallacious doctrine of “separate but equal,” which constitutionalized racial segregation. Wells wrote in her autobiography:

I refused, saying that the forward car [closest to the locomotive] was a smoker, and as I was in the ladies’ car, I proposed to stay… [The conductor] tried to drag me out of the seat, but the moment he caught hold of my arm I fastened my teeth in the back of his hand. I had braced my feet against the seat in front and was holding to the back, and as he had already been badly bitten he didn’t try it again by himself. He went forward and got the baggageman and another man to help him and of course they succeeded in dragging me out.

And when she was speaking on one of her issues and people were like, CAN YOU NOT MENTION THE OTHER THING, instead of being afraid she would lose her venue for speaking on ANY topic, she was like… FUCK YOU I DO WHAT I WANT. 

She was a badass on so many levels and I do not use that term lightly, like she pretended to be 18 at the age of 16 to care for her newly orphaned siblings, she would travel to the South, even though there was a bounty on her head, to investigate lynchings and the failures of the justice system where black people where concerned. She traveled overseas and put American suffragists on blast for their racism, founded the first antilynching society with the full support of many of the upper echelon of the society. She called out black male leaders who told her to sit down and shut up time and again, especially after they pushed her out of the NAACP. Ida B. Wells-Barnett will forever be a badass. The End.

(via black-culture)

newwavefeminism:

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pennilessambition:

this makes my blood boil

But we were the savages… They mock, destroy, murder, steal, conquer, rape, pillage, and don’t try to understand… But we, and all other indigenous/melanated people, WE were/are the savages. Yeah, right.

ugh. i don’t even think i want to know what’s happening…

I can’t!! Right now, this just too much for me! From the attire of this man - I use this world lightly here - , you can tell this picture was taken fairly recently (and not 200 years ago)!

Thanx for bringing ‘civilization’ !

=/ 

jarring picture of the day

(Source: questcequecestqueca)

afrikanwomen:

Isis Nyongo is the Vice President and Managing Director of InMobi,  the largest independent mobile advertising network in the world.

She joined InMobi in February 2011 to lead business expansion in Africa. With over nine years of business development, marketing and sales experience, Isis is responsible for the overall growth on the continent.

Isis joins InMobi from Google where she led the company’s business development efforts in Africa. She specialized in mobile partnerships and developed Google’s content strategy to bring more African content online. She brings extensive media and tech experience to InMobi and drove the launch of MTV Networks in Africa where she was responsible for commercial relationships including distribution and sales. She developed the marketing strategy for Kenya’s first online recruitment service, MyJobsEye and holds degrees from Stanford University and Harvard Business School where she was president of the Africa Business Club. Isis has been named as one of the ‘Top 40 Women under 40’ in Kenya and is frequently featured by the Africa media including, Al Jazeera, BBC, Nation Newspaper, NTV, Standard Newspaper and UP Magazine amongst others.

feministhistorian:

inothernews:

So there are segments of the population that don’t want contraceptives covered under certain health plans but don’t worry, we’ll make sure a battery-powered dick vacuum is covered by BOTH private insurance AND taxpayer-funded Medicare. A fucking DICK. VACUUM.

Making sure men can get an erection is more important than making sure women can control their fertility. 

(via lipsredasroses)

feministhistorian:

feministblackboard:

The text is worth reading:

HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF WOMEN.
PRE-PROGRAMMED FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE.

As you read this, women across America are reading something very different: an advertisement (fig. 1) scientifically formulated to enhance their perception of men who drink Molson. The ad shown below, currently running in Cosmopolitan magazine, is a perfectly tuned combination of words and images designed by trained professionals.  Women who are exposed to it experience a very positive feeling.  A feeling which they will later project directly onto you. Triggering the process is as simple as ordering a Molson Canadian (fig. 2).
…
Extravagent dinners.  Subtitled movies. Floral arrangements tied together with little pieces of hay. It gets old.  And it gets expensive, depleting funds that could go to a new set of of 20-inch rims. But thanks to the miracle of Twin Advertising Technology, you can achieve success without putting in any time or effort. So drop the bouquet and pick up a Molson Canadian…

The second ad, then, portrays men as lazy, shallow jerks who are just trying to get laid (not soft and sensitive at all).  And it portrays women as stupid and manipulable.

Wow, this is disgusting.

(Source: feminist-blackboard, via lipsredasroses)

latimes:

Sterilized by North Carolina, she felt raped once more: Elaine Riddick was only 14 when the state decided that she was not capable of mothering children and quietly cauterized her fallopian tubes. The $50,000 now offered to her only makes her angrier.

This is one of the most disturbing stories we’ve ever read.

Between 1929 and 1974, nearly 7,600 people were sterilized under orders from North Carolina’s Eugenics Board. Nearly 85% were women or girls, some as young as 10. The state estimates that 1,500 to 2,000 of the victims are still alive.

The board’s declared goal was to purify the state’s population by weeding out the mentally ill, diseased, feebleminded and others deemed undesirable.

In a 1950 pamphlet, the Human Betterment League of North Carolina said the board was protecting “the children of future generations and the community at large,” adding that “you wouldn’t expect a moron to run a train or a feebleminded woman to teach school.”

The pamphlet went on: “It is not barnyard castration!”

Photo: Elaine Riddick, 57, listens as Dr. Laura Gerald, unseen, chairwoman of the Governor’s Eugenics Compensation Task Force, announces on Jan. 10 the panel’s recommendation of a $50,000 payment to each victim. The meeting was held in Raleigh, N.C. Credit: Shawn Rocco, Raleigh News & Observer

(Source: Los Angeles Times)