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El Paso via the Midwest. Nonprofit leader & change maker. This meeting could be held outside. Opinions my own, and I got a lot.

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Cover of a comic with text "Miss Fury" and image of a white woman in a cat suit and cape swooping down and knocking over two male criminais

Cover of a comic with text "Miss Fury" and image of a white woman in a cat suit and cape swooping down and knocking over two male criminais

June TarpΓ© Mills, (1918-1988) one of the first major US female comics artists, known for her action comic strip, Miss Fury, featuring the first female action hero created by a woman #womensart

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Yellow poster featuring a stylised sun flower to the left and black text tobthe right

Yellow poster featuring a stylised sun flower to the left and black text tobthe right

Iconic anti-war poster, originally by US printmaker Lorraine Schneider, 1966
#ReframingWomenPrintmakers

22.06.2025 06:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2423    πŸ” 787    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 40
Colorful quilt of a nighttime scene with  Harriet Tubman in an orange jacket and purple dress carrying a rifle. She is leading other figures who walk behind her.

Colorful quilt of a nighttime scene with Harriet Tubman in an orange jacket and purple dress carrying a rifle. She is leading other figures who walk behind her.

Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the β€œWe Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

19.06.2025 12:19 β€” πŸ‘ 31904    πŸ” 6254    πŸ’¬ 1539    πŸ“Œ 482
Stylised painting with flat landscape against a pale blue sky, striped colourful fields and a white house to the left on the horizon and four trees

Stylised painting with flat landscape against a pale blue sky, striped colourful fields and a white house to the left on the horizon and four trees

'Summer fields' by contemporary painter Susan Simioni, based in Tasmania , Australia #WomensArt

04.06.2025 06:54 β€” πŸ‘ 746    πŸ” 76    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 7
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Celebrated US photographer Vivian Maier (1926-2009) known for her social documentary and candid street portraits #WomensArt

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The world needs more of this and less of most other things

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Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and…

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.

Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb.)

06.05.2025 03:00 β€” πŸ‘ 7591    πŸ” 3722    πŸ’¬ 201    πŸ“Œ 230
Print featuring a white woman holding her strong arms over the heads of three small children who look out from under with scared faces

Print featuring a white woman holding her strong arms over the heads of three small children who look out from under with scared faces

"Seed Corn Must Not Be Ground" final lithograph of KΓ€the Kollwitz, 1942. The death of her son in WW1 and death of her grandson in WW2 obviously profoundly affected the artist. This print reflects the theme of a mother protecting their children from the horrors of war #WomensArt

23.04.2025 05:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2514    πŸ” 436    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 23

when people say "this isn't what I voted for" they should be forced to list what they DID vote for

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Welcome to WA, thank you for following!

Artwork by Mariann Johansen-Ellis

06.04.2025 06:19 β€” πŸ‘ 613    πŸ” 71    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3

They defunded schools at the same time they rolled back child labor laws…

05.04.2025 03:54 β€” πŸ‘ 5996    πŸ” 1710    πŸ’¬ 297    πŸ“Œ 106
20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl 20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow

You have to see this.

PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgentβ€”and it needs to be shared far and wide.

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Illustration looking down on a small boat as it speeds through the water leaving white waves in its wake, with two people onboard, the boat is followed by a group of white seagulls

Illustration looking down on a small boat as it speeds through the water leaving white waves in its wake, with two people onboard, the boat is followed by a group of white seagulls

Yuko Shimizu, New York based award winning Japanese illustrator #womensart #Fridayfeeling

21.03.2025 06:50 β€” πŸ‘ 800    πŸ” 100    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 6
Ally Maynard tweeted:

β€œFox News and Facebook did to our parents what they said video games would do to us.”

Ally Maynard tweeted: β€œFox News and Facebook did to our parents what they said video games would do to us.”

Still true.

17.03.2025 19:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3719    πŸ” 825    πŸ’¬ 102    πŸ“Œ 32
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MacKenzie Scott

16.03.2025 05:05 β€” πŸ‘ 41143    πŸ” 6667    πŸ’¬ 1211    πŸ“Œ 529

Did you see the video of the elderly man who went to his Capitol to testify against trans kids but he ended up sitting in the overflow room and listened to two hours of testimony and completely changed his mind on trans kids?

Some of them are still reachable.

16.03.2025 03:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3823    πŸ” 441    πŸ’¬ 76    πŸ“Œ 11
Monochrome photograph featuring a sitting white woman in shirt and trousers with her back to the viewer holding wires while working on a large computer which has multiple wires

Monochrome photograph featuring a sitting white woman in shirt and trousers with her back to the viewer holding wires while working on a large computer which has multiple wires

'Woman wiring an early IBM computer' from the 'Documenting Science' series (1938-58) by photographer Berenice Abbott #womensart

15.03.2025 07:21 β€” πŸ‘ 844    πŸ” 172    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 18
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Arlington Cemetery website scrubs links about Black and female veterans Pentagon leaders have ordered that their websites and social media pages remove articles and images that β€œpromote” DEI.

ICYMI:

β€œArlington National Cemetery has scrubbed information about prominent Black, Hispanic and female service members and topics such as the Civil War from its website”…in order β€œto remove all references to diversity, equity and inclusion from its online presence.”

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He was always a used car salesman at heart.

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Claudia Sheinbaum, President of Mexico, International Women’s Day 2025

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Pictorial textile artwork featuring a seascape with calm rippled waters Γ‘nd a rocky headland to the right, all under a golden sky with rising sun

Pictorial textile artwork featuring a seascape with calm rippled waters Γ‘nd a rocky headland to the right, all under a golden sky with rising sun

Alison Holt, contemporary textile artist who creates machine and hand embroidered land and seascapes #WomensArt

06.03.2025 05:46 β€” πŸ‘ 557    πŸ” 98    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Slava Ukraini πŸ’›πŸ’™

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We’re in this mess in large part bc the average American is uninformed about fundamentals of civics, history, basic biology, economics, etc, and media and the internet are not meeting the moment.

Is anyone organizing teach-ins or similar for the general public, whether irl or online?

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Joni Mitchell, singer-songwriter, musician, poet, painter, genius #WomensArt

01.03.2025 06:33 β€” πŸ‘ 659    πŸ” 128    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 10
Painting of a row of daffodils with yellow trumpet blooms and long green stalks on a white background

Painting of a row of daffodils with yellow trumpet blooms and long green stalks on a white background

'Daffodils' by Elizabeth Blackadder, Scottish painter and printmaker #WomensArt #March1st

01.03.2025 06:47 β€” πŸ‘ 833    πŸ” 102    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 14

The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

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We can’t call a Nazi salute a β€œgesture”

21.02.2025 20:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1658    πŸ” 220    πŸ’¬ 58    πŸ“Œ 13

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