Posts tagged feminist history
Survive
Survive

“Whether making themselves purposefully ugly or embracing their sexuality on their own terms, whether layering themselves in baggy clothing or wearing miniskirts and fishnets, whether blacking out their eyes with smudges of kohl eyeliner or putting paper bags over their heads, these women said my body is mine and I will present it however I choose.”

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Herstory, Liberation, Pop CultureJessie Lynn McMainsthe bags, alice bag, womxn in punk, chicanx history, herstory, feminism, feminist herstory, feminist history, chicanx, punk rock, punk music, women in punk, women in punk rock, women in music, queer women, queer womxn, queer, queer history, LGBT, LGBTQIA, LGBTQIA artists, sex, rock and roll, sexuality, resistance, resistComment
The Femme Chronos: The Life and Work of Mina Loy
The Femme Chronos: The Life and Work of Mina Loy

“Raised by a mother who believed imagination was sinful, Mina was constantly punished and derided for her creative spirit…. And yet, her poetry breathes with transformative vitality. She dares to imagine a world where women exist wholly as themselves, their value disconnected from the preferences of men.”

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Herstory, Liberation, Pop Culture, SexualityCassidy ScanlonMina Loy, herstory, feminist poets, feminism, feminist history, feminist herstory, badass women, ezra pound, gertrude stein, LGBTQIA artists, LGBTQIA, the dada group, 20th century artists, 20th century writers, 20th century, women empowerment, female empowerment, women, women's rights, women's art, women artists, female artists, writers, women writers, gender and sexualityComment