I’m getting evicted on Monday. I have no money to my name right now. My parents will not help me. I was unaware this was coming because my roommate kept me in the dark that he wasn’t paying rent. He stole my money. He also split and left me here.
I have a cat. There are no shelters in…
Taking a break from regular posting…
Naseema was abandoned at a young age and taken in and raised by a ‘grandmother’ at the Chaturbhuj-sthan brothel in Bahir, India which is located close to Nepal. She is proud of the fact that she was essentially raised by the brothel which funded her education. Naseema founded an organisation, Parcham after the failures of NGOs which did not recognise the real issues surrounding prostitutes in India. The organisation aims to break the cycle of prostitution by reuniting trafficked children with their parents. She lobbies politicians in order to ensure the Indian constitution applies to prostitutes as well as the rest of the population.
Margaret Cavendish, The Duchess of Newcastle was a poet, philosopher, writer of prose romances, essayist, and playwright who published under her own name at a time when most women writers published anonymously. Her writing addressed a number of topics, including gender, power, manners, scientific method, and animal protection. Her romance, The Blazing World, is one of the earliest examples of science fiction.
She became the second wife of William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1645. Wiliam Cavendish had been a good friend of King Charles I and Henrietta Maria, and had been chosen to take charge of their son and heir Charles (later Charles II) from the age of eight, in his education. Cavendish would prove to be a stong influence upon Charles throughout his life, particually regarding his attitude towards women, whom he taught to always treat with great civility and respect.
William was very encouraging of his wifes talents. Letters and poems of praise written by him were included in several of Margaret Cavendish’s published works.
Margaret wrote critiques of Descartes, Hobbes and Hooke. Her proposed visit to the Royal Society in 1667 caused much debate among Fellows as to whether a woman’s presence would damage the Society’s reputation. Her elevated social status won the day and she became the first woman to attend a Society demonstration. Pepys records that she was ‘all admiration’ for Boyle’s air-pump.
Despite her many accomplishments and high social status, Margaret described herself as naturally shy and reserved, and wrote an essay on what she called her “extreme bashfulness”. Margaret wrote that her husband liked her bashfulness. She also states that he was the only man she was ever in love with, loving him not for title, wealth or power, but for merit, justice, gratitude, duty and fidelity.
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Maria Toor Pakay becomes the first Pakistan-born woman ever to reach a British Open main draw
World number one Nicol David will have a surprising first round opponent when she begins her campaign to win back the British Open title here on Tuesday.
The legendary Malaysian will take on Maria Toor Pakay who became the first Pakistan-born woman ever to reach a British Open main draw after upsetting the seedings in the qualifying competition.
The 21-year-old left-hander from Peshawar overcame Emily Whitlock, the European junior champion, by 11-5, 4-11, 8-11, 11-6, 11-7 in a 46-minute struggle which ended in the English player’s first defeat in any competition since January.
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I told you Pakistani women are badass. Proof - yet again.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m42z9twl0i1qamcl6o1_500.jpg)
Maria Toor Pakay becomes the first Pakistan-born woman ever to reach a British Open main draw
World number one Nicol David will have a surprising first round opponent when she begins her campaign to win back the British Open title here on Tuesday.
The legendary Malaysian will take on Maria Toor Pakay who became the first Pakistan-born woman ever to reach a British Open main draw after upsetting the seedings in the qualifying competition.
The 21-year-old left-hander from Peshawar overcame Emily Whitlock, the European junior champion, by 11-5, 4-11, 8-11, 11-6, 11-7 in a 46-minute struggle which ended in the English player’s first defeat in any competition since January.
I told you Pakistani women are badass. Proof - yet again.
Sadako Ogata (緒方 貞子 Ogata Sadako, born September 16, 1927) was the UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees from 1991 to 2001.
Throughout her long career she has worked as a university lecturer specialising in International Politics after she was awarded a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1963.
Her great-grandfather was the noted Liberal, Prime Minster Inukai of Japan who was assassinated in 1932 by radical members of the Japanese Imperial Army increasing the trend towards a fascism within Japan.
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I present for your viewing pleasure Sofonisba Anguissola, a female painter of the Italian High Renaissance. Her family was peculiar in the fact that all of the daughters (6 of them) received humanist education and all pursued their own interests. While some of them eventually married and dropped what they were doing, Sofonisba pressed on, even after marriage (in fact, her husband was purportedly supportive of her painting). She was so talented that even Michelangelo and Vasari were forced to admit her skill. Visari said of her work, “[she] has shown greater application and better grace than any other woman of our age in her endeavors at drawing; she has thus succeeded not only in drawing, coloring and painting from nature, and copying excellently from others, but by herself has created rare and very beautiful paintings.”
This woman, at a tremendous disadvantage learning human anatomy because of the times and her sex, and living in a time where women were generally dismissed, made one of the greatest artists in the world and the first art historian acknowledge her skill. This lady kicked some serious ass and she’s definitely one of my history crushes.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3djvvBqDK1qeu6ilo1_500.jpg)
I present for your viewing pleasure Sofonisba Anguissola, a female painter of the Italian High Renaissance. Her family was peculiar in the fact that all of the daughters (6 of them) received humanist education and all pursued their own interests. While some of them eventually married and dropped what they were doing, Sofonisba pressed on, even after marriage (in fact, her husband was purportedly supportive of her painting). She was so talented that even Michelangelo and Vasari were forced to admit her skill. Visari said of her work, “[she] has shown greater application and better grace than any other woman of our age in her endeavors at drawing; she has thus succeeded not only in drawing, coloring and painting from nature, and copying excellently from others, but by herself has created rare and very beautiful paintings.”
This woman, at a tremendous disadvantage learning human anatomy because of the times and her sex, and living in a time where women were generally dismissed, made one of the greatest artists in the world and the first art historian acknowledge her skill. This lady kicked some serious ass and she’s definitely one of my history crushes.
March 30th, 1912
To the Editor of The Times.
Sir,
After reading Sir Almroth Wright’s able and weighty exposition of women as he knows them the question seems no longer to be “Should women have votes?” but “Ought women not to be abolished altogether?”
I have been so much impressed by Sir Almroth Wright’s disquisition, backed as it is by so much scientific and personal experience, that I have come to the conclusion that women should be put a stop to.
We learn from him that in their youth they are unbalanced, that from time to time they suffer from unreasonableness and hypersensitiveness, and that their presence is distracting and irritating to men in their daily lives and pursuits. If they take up a profession, the indelicacy of their minds makes them undesirable partners for their male colleagues. Later on in life they are subject to grave and long-continued mental disorders, and, if not quite insane, many of them have to be shut up.
Now this being so, how much happier and better would the world not be if only it could be purged of women? It is here that we look to the great scientists. Is the case really hopeless? Women no doubt have had their uses in the past, else how could this detestable tribe have been tolerated till now? But is it quite certain that they will be indispensable in the future? Cannot science give us some assurance, or at least some ground of hope, that we are on the eve of the greatest discovery of all—i.e., how to maintain a race of males by purely scientific means?
And may we not look to Sir Almroth Wright to crown his many achievements by delivering mankind from the parasitic, demented, and immoral species which has infested the world for so long?
Yours obediently,
C.S.C.
(“One of the Doomed”)
Beate Sirota (October 25, 1923 - ) Played a significant role in the creation of Japan’s modern day Constitution following the American Occupation of Japan in 1947. Having lived in Japan in her childhood due to her father’s tenure at Tokyo’s Imperial Academy of Music she became one of the few people in America during the Pacific War who could understand and translate Japanese. While her parents remained in Japan during the War she attended Mill’s College, California in 1939 and later returned to Japan after the war to be reunited with her parents where her ability to read Japanese was of immense value to the Americans.
Ms. Sirota was chosen to write the women’s rights clause for this Constitution in a secret session between Japan and American officials that determined the articles to be included in the final document. This document guarantees women equal rights with men, ensures the nation’s peaceful role in world affairs, and has remained unamended to this day.
Though only 22 years old when she drafted this article of historical importance, was the only one among the drafting team who was aware of the pain of Japanese women, of how limited were their rights and how inferior were those rights to those of men.
![Born Kathleen Jean Mary Walker, Oodgeroo Noonuccal (3 November 1920 – 16 September 1993) was instrumental in winning the vote for Indigenous people. She is one of Australia’s most respected poets and a noted educator and political activist, who fought to improve conditions for her people.
Oodgeroo was elected Queensland State Secretary for the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI) in 1962. She worked tirelessly towards gaining equal opportunities and equal citizenship for Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. In a paper delivered to the FCAATSI conference in 1969, Oodgeroo called for collective Indigenous action in order to achieve basic rights:
“[w]hen you leave this conference and go back to your rat holes — rat holes you call your homes, that you have inherited from the Australian society, unite your people and bring them out fighting.” (Political Rights for Aborigines, FCAATSI Conference, 5 April 1969, p. 4. UQFL84, Box 30)](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3us2feioW1qfh53co1_500.jpg)
Born Kathleen Jean Mary Walker, Oodgeroo Noonuccal (3 November 1920 – 16 September 1993) was instrumental in winning the vote for Indigenous people. She is one of Australia’s most respected poets and a noted educator and political activist, who fought to improve conditions for her people.
Oodgeroo was elected Queensland State Secretary for the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI) in 1962. She worked tirelessly towards gaining equal opportunities and equal citizenship for Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. In a paper delivered to the FCAATSI conference in 1969, Oodgeroo called for collective Indigenous action in order to achieve basic rights:
“[w]hen you leave this conference and go back to your rat holes — rat holes you call your homes, that you have inherited from the Australian society, unite your people and bring them out fighting.” (Political Rights for Aborigines, FCAATSI Conference, 5 April 1969, p. 4. UQFL84, Box 30)
Maria Callas (Greek: Μαρία Κάλλας) (December 2, 1923 – September 16, 1977) was an American-born Greek soprano and one of the most renowned opera singers of the 20th century. She combined an impressive bel canto technique, a wide-ranging voice and great dramatic gifts.
Her image was often marred by the press of her time and undue criticisms were placed upon her when she cancelled performances due to ill health and such. Once of the most beautiful and talented women in Operatic history.
