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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

June Tarpé 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

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

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 “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

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

Celebrated US photographer Vivian Maier (1926-2009) known for her social documentary and candid street portraits #WomensArt

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.)

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 Käthe 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

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

Welcome to WA, thank you for following!

Artwork by Mariann Johansen-Ellis

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

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 urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.

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

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

Still true.

MacKenzie Scott

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.

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

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 “promote” DEI.

ICYMI:

“Arlington 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 “to remove all references to diversity, equity and inclusion from its online presence.”

He was always a used car salesman at heart.

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

Pictorial textile artwork featuring a seascape with calm rippled waters ánd 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

Slava Ukraini 💛💙

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?

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

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

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.

We can’t call a Nazi salute a “gesture”