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6 Women-Directed Horror Thrillers to Fulfill All of Your Spooky Season Cravings
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(Movies)
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... Daniel Robitaille (Tony Todd) provides a different origin story dating back to a 19th-century interracial affair that resulted in his lynching. Legend has it that if you say “Candyman” five times in a ...
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Created on 01 October 2021
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Growing Up MLM: LuLaRich, The Sticky Ideology Of MLMs, and Reflections on Being the Child of a Mary Kay Recruit
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(Living)
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... standards for middle- and upper-class women crafted in the West during the end of the 19th century: to be a present and productive mother, to be gentle and caring, to be a support to their husbands. Soft, ...
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Created on 23 September 2021
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Kara Walker Helped Define An Entire Generation Of Black Creators—Now, Her Artwork Is On Full Display For The First Time
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(Arts)
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... she found in the silhouette. The silhouette cutout has a bourgeois, feminine tradition and was also practiced in the United States in the 19th century by African Americans. It was considered a handicraft, ...
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Created on 26 May 2021
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For Centuries, Some Asian Women Have Chosen to Live Communally, Preferring to Take Care Of Each Other Rather Than Rely On Men
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(Living)
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... based in Singapore, says the tradition developed in China during the Qing Dynasty, a period spanning 1644 to 1912, then spread to many regions of mid-19th century Southeast Asia, mostly in Malaysia and ...
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Created on 17 May 2021
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Reclaiming The Lens: 10 Women Filmmakers Spearheading The New Wave in Black Cinema
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(Movies)
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... Birthday, Marsha! explore the lives and historic activism of Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson. Her most recent project Salacia (2019), a period piece on the life of a Black trans woman in 19th century ...
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Created on 22 April 2021
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Hair Art: The Morbid Trend That Dominated the Victorian Era
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(Living)
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The creation of art from human hair, or “hairwork,” reached its peak in the 19th century. “Hairwork” instructions and patterns were often featured in shops, ladies’ magazines, and “fancywork” books, ...
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Created on 05 April 2021
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What type of fabric should you wear to stay warm in the winter? Or cool in the summer? This guide to fiber gives you everything you need to dress comfy in any weather
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(Style)
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... pants, blouses, dresses—particularly items worn close to the body, because it is both super soft and absorbent.
RAYON HISTORY Invented in the mid-19th century when it was called “artificial silk.” ...
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Created on 12 February 2021
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This U.K. Artist Turns Found Objects Into Haute Art: BUST Interview
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(Arts)
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... the 19th-century British craze for ferns that gave women a means for creative expression and social freedom because “fern hunting” was often allowed sans chaperone. Other influences are equally significant. ...
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Created on 30 October 2020
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Writer Rachel Syme Has A Perfume For Every Situation, Mood, Or Style — Here Are Just A Few
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(Style)
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If you’ve ever wanted to smell like a 19th-century Russian countess, Rosamund Pike’s Gone Girl character, or even something as amorphous as the bridge of a Fleetwood Mac song, Rachel Syme has a scent ...
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Created on 17 September 2020
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Ida B. Wells To Be Honored In Art Installation At D.C. Union Station Next Week
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(Feminism)
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... movement.
A huge new Ida B. Wells mosaic in Union Station will honor the 19th Amendmenthttps://t.co/zt5GQTd9Jx pic.twitter.com/d7jj9rYb8G
— DCist (@DCist) August 19, 2020
Union Station was chosen ...
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Created on 21 August 2020
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#SaveTheUSPS And Mail Your Feminist Friends Stationery From These 10 Women-Owned Shops
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(Living)
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... is exactly as described, “funny, irreverent, sarcastic, and slightly twisted.” This cards and magnets are perfect for any lover of all things Jane Austen and 19th Century.
7. JustFollowYourArt ...
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Created on 18 August 2020
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The 100th Anniversary of (Some) Women's Suffrage: Did YOUR state support women's right to vote? Check this state-by-state history of the fight for suffrage in Ameri
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(Feminism)
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100 years ago, the 19th amendment, allowing women the right to vote, was passed. But although the amendment was written to give women of all races the right to vote, in practice, it was mostly white ...
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Created on 18 August 2020
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The “Reclaim Her Name” Project is Republishing 25 Books You Didn’t Know Were Written by Women
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(Books)
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... industry’s patriarchal doors. As more women tried to get their work published in the 19th century, they faced criticism from publishers who considered them unfit for the literary realm and refused their ...
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Created on 13 August 2020
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Hey 19: The Wild True Story Of America's First Women-Led Terrorist Grou
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(General)
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... for the May 19th Communist Organization and named after the birthday shared by Nation of Islam leader Malcolm X and Vietnamese revolutionary Ho Chi Minh—hoped to start an insurrection that would destroy ...
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Created on 30 July 2020
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A Black Woman Voted, Now She's Going to Priso
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(Living)
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... back to the late 19th century. The motives behind such a statute could not be more clearly outlined as they were in a North Carolina Democratic handbook in 1898, which states: “the special mission of the ...
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Created on 21 July 2020
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8 Incredible People to Replace Racist Statues With
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(Living)
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... at North Texas State College. She played a big role in Civil Rights Movement in Texas and has been praised by many.
Sacramento, California A work crew lifted the statue of John Sutter, a 19th century ...
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Created on 24 June 2020
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The Surprising History of Women and Pockets
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(Style)
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... when the clingy fabric of newly fashionable neo-classical dresses made lumps and bumps all too obvious. As the 19th century progressed, hoopskirts and crinolines allowed vastly more real estate for pockets, ...
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Created on 13 May 2020
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Why Some Women Choose To Pay For Sex
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(Sex)
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... to Leave Town
Let Them Sit On Cake: Professional Cake Sitter Lindsay Dye On Art, Camming, And The Decriminalization of Sex Work
How 19th Century Sex Workers Were Blamed For Ruining Lives By Trying ...
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Created on 17 April 2020
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In Honor Of Hulu's “The Great,” Here Are Some Other Women In History We'd Love To See Onscre
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(TV)
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... Lovelace lived in the 19th century and was a pioneer in STEM. She’s considered to be the first ever computer programmer in history. She’s also the perfect candidate for one of these bizarre, modernized ...
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Created on 25 March 2020
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Need A Break From Reality? Escape With These 11 YA Fantasy Books
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(Books)
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... Set in the lush world of 19th century Paris where magic abounds, you'll be hard pressed not to find yourself transported. Book two, The Silvered Serpents, releases in September of this year.
Children ...
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Created on 20 March 2020
