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Maria Lokke looks into “A Secret History of Women and Tattoo”: “Though tattoos are an increasingly common, and visible, element of personal style these days, it’s some of the more hidden and historic examples—from Victorian women to circus attractions—that are the most surprising.”
Click-through for a slideshow: http://nyr.kr/Y9ZuB2
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ca. 1856-1910, [hand tinted, tintype portrait of a woman in a fine striped dress, holding a book]
via Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Museum](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mciz81sU4J1qa51rdo1_500.jpg)
ca. 1856-1910, [hand tinted, tintype portrait of a woman in a fine striped dress, holding a book]
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In this country, they would support the recriminalization of abortion with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and they would limit access to contraception and other services. But they have also promised to promote policies abroad that would affect millions of women in the world’s poorest countries, where lack of access to contraception, prenatal care and competent help at childbirth often results in serious illness and thousands of deaths yearly. And the wreckage would begin on Day 1 of a Romney administration.”
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young women dressed as flappers in the 1920s
“They were smart and sophisticated, with an air of independence about them, and so casual about their looks and clothes and manners as to be almost slapdash. I don’t know if I realized as soon as I began seeing them that they represented the wave of the future, but I do know I was drawn to them. I shared their restlessness, understood their determination to free themselves of the Victorian shackles of the pre-World War I era and find out for themselves what life was all about.” ― Colleen Moore
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“Empowered” and “sexy” are not universally synonymous. That a woman is not a sex kitten does not mean that she’s any less comfortable or empowered or any of that stuff. See above, re: not a homogenous demographic. Stop making sexiness a universal demand. Let some characters be unsexy. And for fuck’s sake, please, please stop drawing women who are injured, or dead, or being tortured, or punching bad guys, in sex-kitten pin-up poses. That is bad visual storytelling, and it is INCREDIBLY creepy. Let women be heroes for the sake of heroism. Women don’t have to be damaged or traumatized to be strong, or to want to make a difference. Corollary: Dropping rape into a backstory is not a panacea for making a female character complex and gritty.
Imagine you have a daughter. Imagine the kind of women you’d like her to want to grow up to be. Write them. Write women you’d want to be friends — really good friends — with. Write women you’d get in arguments with. Write women you’d be legitimately scared of. Write women like your mom, like your aunts, like your wife, like your friends, like your nieces and nephews and daughters and bosses and friends. We are not aliens… This, too, goes back to “doing things.” A lot of the time, male characters act, and female characters are acted upon. Let female characters make difficult choices — and sometimes choose wrong — and have struggles and the same real victories. Because without those things, they’re not characters; they’re just window dressing.
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This photo is from a gallery by Olivia Aurthur accompanying our feature that peers inside the secretive world of Saudi women.
In a kitchen in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, an abaya-clad woman shows her zebra-striped slippers. Some Saudi women like to have small bands of color or other decorative touches on the long, black garb that’s supposed to help them maintain modesty. Others say such ornamentation is improper because it attracts men’s attention.
The full story is absolutely worth a read.
Afghans attend a demonstration condemning the violence against women in the country, in Kabul on July 31, 2012. Dozens of women and men staged a peaceful demonstration in Kabul on Tuesday, calling on government to stop violation against women in Afghanistan. (Xinhua/Omid)
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Afghan women take it to streets of Kabul to speak out against street harassment. (2011)
Mubaraka Sahar eagerly tells me that her sign reads: “Street Harassment is a Sin.” She is only 15, but is “really excited today to fight for our rights” at the first ever protest against street harassment in Afghanistan.
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Starting today, health insurance plans will begin to cover contraception as part of women’s preventive care—with no copay or deductible.
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