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10 Amazing International Women Musicians You’ll Love Listening To on International Women’s Day
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(Music)
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Moonchild Sanelly
Sanelisiwe Twisha, known by her stage name, Moonchild Sanelly, is a South African musician who created the genre “future ghetto punk.” While rocking her signature blue afro, Sanelly ...
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Created on 08 March 2023
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7 Best Biopics About Women to Watch When You Need to Feel Inspired (and 1 For When You Don't
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(Movies)
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... to help others to freedom in the 2019 film Harriet. After fleeing to the north from a life of southern slavery, Tubman meets some incredible people who show her a new life and encourage her to stay where ...
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Created on 30 November 2022
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Women Have Been Aiding And Abetting Abortion For Centuries. So How And When Did The Witchcraft Narrative Begin?
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(Feminism)
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... the Civil War (and wasn’t officially forbidden by the Catholic Church until Pope Pius IX issued an edict against them in 1869), in the Spanish and Portuguese colonies of South America, abortion had been ...
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Created on 19 September 2022
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14 Inspiring Celebrities Who Came Out Later in Life, On Their Own Terms
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(Sex)
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... interview with Vanity Fair in 2018 when she told the magazine that she “kind of goes both ways.” She is now engaged to South African actress Jodi Balfour.
5. Maybelle Blair
Maybelle Blair, one of the ...
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Created on 14 September 2022
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Kehlani Sounds Off On Latest Album "Blue Water Road," Coming Out As A Lesbian, And The Role Motherhood Plays In Their Life ...
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(Music)
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... an exotic fruit section!’”
If their other passions ignite a spark, Kehlani’s recent travels may have set off a blaze. After performing at three Lollapalooza dates across South America, Kehlani returned ...
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Created on 31 August 2022
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In this Security Job, Sexism and The Patriarchy Are Actually Helping Women Excel
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(Feminism)
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... So why are women so much better at this job than men?
Alethe Denis always wanted to be a spy. She first experienced the thrill of changing identities as a teen when she divided her time between South ...
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Created on 30 June 2022
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Carnations, Meat Hash, and ”Watching Your Mother’s Face”: 9 Mother’s Day Celebrations From Around the World
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(Feminism)
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... materials to the priest. They also visit Mata Tirtha, a sacred pilgrimage in the southwest of Central Kathmandu, where there are two ponds, the larger one for bathing and the smaller one to "look upon ...
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Created on 06 May 2022
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Madison Butler Disrupts Gender Pay Inequity For Black Women, With Her Black Speaker Collection, a Database Full of Voices That Need To Be Heard
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(Feminism)
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... places African Americans with perceived mainstream accents in jobs with higher visibility and customer interaction which results in a higher salary. Grogger’s research examines the dialects of Southern ...
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Created on 25 March 2022
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Trevor Noah Made An Important Point About The Kim-Kanye-Pete Davidson Situation—And Got Kanye Banned from Instagram
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(TV)
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Four days ago, comedian and talk show host Trevor Noah devoted a ten-minute segment on The Daily Show to defend Kim Kardashian. Noah emphasized the concerns we should all have about Kanye’s behaviors ...
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Created on 18 March 2022
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HOORAY, The Equal Rights Amendment Passed! Or DID It?!?
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(Feminism)
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... their ratification, four of those doing so before the March 1979 deadline. According to EqualRightsAmendment.org, between 1973 and 1979, Idaho, Kentucky, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Tennessee all voted ...
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Created on 11 March 2022
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"The Sex Lives of African Women" Aims to Help African Women Decolonize Their Sexuality By Sharing Their Storie
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(Books)
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... a queer feminist residing in Egypt navigating the sexual politics of her current landscape; and Miss Deviant, a South London Dominatrix in her 50s who makes her wealthy white male patrons “perform acts ...
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Created on 11 March 2022
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K. Michelle's New Series "My Killer Body With K. Michelle" Explores The Darker Side of Plastic Surge
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(TV)
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... Baartman). Baartman, an African woman from the Eastern Cape of South Africa, possessed a sizable derriere that garnered alot of attention and not positively. Her steatopygic aesthetic became the fascination ...
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Created on 18 February 2022
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13 Women of Color-Owned and Operated Bookstores You Can Support Right Now
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(Books)
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... writers from Southeast Asia and Oceania. From the beginning, Yu wanted a place that featured narratives where she felt she could find her grandmother. It would appear that she cares deeply about family ...
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Created on 04 February 2022
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Over a Century Ago, Two Young Girls Pulled a Prank That Got Way Out of Hand—And Convinced The World that Fairies Really Exist
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(Arts)
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... University Library Galleries
It all began in the summer of 1917, when nine-year-old Frances Griffiths and her mother moved from Cape Town, South Africa, to the picturesque town of Cottingley in Yorkshire, ...
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Created on 16 December 2021
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South African Soul-Rocker Tuelo Honors her Mother in Video for “Saint Margaret”
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(Music)
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Tuelo is a singer and songwriter from South Africa who beautifully blends punk, rock, and soul into her music, and today she's released a music video for her song “Saint Margaret”; an ode to her familial ...
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Created on 27 October 2021
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How Sarah Baartman’s hips went from a symbol of exploitation to a source of empowerment for Black women
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(Feminism)
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... by the very people it most directly effects: Black women.
So I interviewed 30 Black women from various cities in South Africa and the mid-Atlantic U.S. and asked them about Baartman. Would her image ...
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Created on 20 August 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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... for Mudbound, a dramatic period piece exploring heightened racial tensions in the deep south. The critically-acclaimed film is streaming now on Netflix.
3. Tourmaline
Tourmaline’s filmmaking career ...
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Created on 22 April 2021
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COVID-19 Has Made Access To Reproductive Healthcare Evasive, As If Getting An Abortion Wasn't Already Hard Enough in Americ
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(Living)
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... bans that have been adopted by nearly half the country have continued to spread. South Carolina is the latest state to pass such a bill, called the “South Carolina Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion ...
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Created on 23 February 2021
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Marlene Van Niekerk’s "Agaat" Reminds Us Of The Ever-Evolving Postcolonial World We Live I
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(Books)
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Marlene van Niekerk’s Agaat is a beautiful, complicated epic of agrarian life in South Africa from 1948 onward, and it explores the evolution of a relationship between two women who take care of one ...
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Created on 11 February 2021
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Culture Critics Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham Commemorate This Moment in Time With Their New Book Black Futures
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(Books)
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... American painter Toyin Ojih Odutola, screen shots from video game designer Momo Pixel, photography by South African LGBTQIA activist Zanele Muholi, and many other works. “I think that there’s this notion ...
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Created on 01 December 2020