Queer, gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual Muslims exist too. They battle homophobia, transphobia AND Islamophobia everyday. Please don’t erase them. (Photos not mine)
Musulmanes queer, gays, lesbianas, transgénero y bisexuales también existen y luchan cada día contra la homofobia, transfobia, Islamofobia. Por favor, no los olvidemos!
KATHRINE SWITZER. First female to run the Boston Marathon in 1967 under “K.V. Switzer” as women weren’t allowed to run (🙄) until 1972. They tried to stop her but she kept on going. Now more than half the marathon runners in the US are women. She’s back running the marathon this year and her bib number is now going to be retired. #WCW FOR REAL🏅💪.
Kathrine Switzer. Primera mujer en correr la maratón de Boston en 1967 bajo el nombre abreviado K.V. Switzer ya que a las mujeres no se les permitió correr hasta 1972. Ahora más de la mitad de los corredores de EEUU son mujeres. Switzer volvió a correr la maratón este año y su número de dorsal será retirado. #wcw de verdad!
International Women’s Day poster from 1975, printed by the Women’s Graphics Collective, in our @cooperhewitt.
Four Chicago-based women designers founded the group in 1970, bringing together women designers and activists to produce art that advanced the goals of the women’s movement. More about the poster and their organization.
Today we celebrate International Women’s Day, a day in which we honor and recognize the contributions of women…both on Earth and in space.
Since the beginning, women have been essential to the progression and success of
America’s space program.
Throughout history, women have had to
overcome struggles in the workplace. The victories for gender rights were not
achieved easily or quickly, and our work is not done.
Today, we strive to make
sure that our legacy of inclusion and excellence lives on.
We have a long-standing cultural commitment
to excellence that is largely driven by data, including data about our people.
And our data shows progress is driven by questioning our assumptions and
cultural prejudices – by embracing and nurturing all talent we have available,
regardless of gender, race or other protected status, to build a workforce as
diverse as our mission. This is how we, as a nation, will take the next giant
leap in exploration.
As a world leader in science, aeronautics,
space exploration and technology, we have a diverse mission that demands talent
from every corner of America, and every walk of life.
So, join us today, and every day, as we
continue our legacy of inclusion and excellence.
You might’ve watched the Grammys this past weekend, where Laverne Cox told you to google “Gavin Grimm.”
Many obeyed, the hashtag #StandWithGavin rising to the top of the trending lists as his story began to circulate among popular consciousness.
Gavin is a transgender high school student in the state of Virginia who has had to attend board meetings filled with adults discussing his ability to utilize the school bathroom, many of whom reportedly cheered after hearing vulgar statements made about the teenager.
When the school board voted that he would not be able to use the boys bathroom, Gavin decided to sue.
He says: “I am fighting this fight because no kid should have to think so hard about performing a basic and private function of being alive. No kid struggling to be accepted, and struggling to accept themselves, should have to simultaneously battle for the right to use the correct bathroom. That is why I have come to this point. I hope that I will be one of the last kids that has to go through something like this, and I am going to do what I can to ensure that.”
Represented by the ACLU, Gavin will be headed to the Supreme Court, where the verdict will impact transgender individuals more broadly than bathroom rights – but to protections on the basis of sex interpreted to included gender identity. It will be the first time the Supreme Court will consider the question of whether transgender people are protected from discrimination.
Gavin’s case will extend beyond his final year of high school, but will determine if his name will be studied by students of history in the years to come, as a champion and defender of the trans community.
Saturday, January 21, 2017
Anti-suffrage movement propaganda | Propaganda del movimiento anti-sufragista
Representing women as ugly, bossy and lazy in order to mock them. That image still persists in our colective perspective of feminists | Representan a mujeres feas, mandonas y descuidadas con el objetivo de ridiculizar el movimiento sufragista. Esa imagen persiste en nuestra visión global del feminismo.
