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7 of the most badass women who ever lived (who you've probably never heard of)

7 of the most badass women who ever lived (who you've probably never heard of)
For centuries, women all over the world have fought and ruled, written and taught. They’ve done business, explored, revolted and invented. They’ve done everything men have done — and a lot of things they haven’t. Some of these women we know about. But so many others we don’t. For every Joan of Arc, there’s a Mongolian wrestler princess; for every Mata Hari, there’s a Colombian revolutionary spy; for every Ada Lovelace, there’s a pin-up Austrian telecoms inventor. More from GlobalPost: 8 reasons Uruguay is not all that The women who shaped our planet are too many to mention, so here are just a few of the most frankly badass females of all time. 1. A modern-day Khutulun takes aim in Ulan Bator. In the 13th century, when khans ruled Central Asia and you couldn’t go 10 minutes without some Genghis, Kublai or Mongke trying to take over your steppe, women were well-versed in badassery. One woman, however, had the combination of both skill and might. Mai Bhago, the 18th-century Sikh Joan of Arc. Related:  FeminismGroupes & listes de femmes

Girl trouble: we care about young women as symbols, not as people Another week, another frenzy of concern-fapping over teenage girls. A few days ago, I was invited onto Channel 4 News to discuss a new report detailing how young people, much like not-young people, misunderstand consent and blame girls for rape. The presenter, Matt Frei, tried to orchestrate a fight between myself and the other guest, Labour MP Luciana Berger, because it’s not TV feminism unless two women shout at each other. As we approached the six minute, time-for-some-last-words mark, Frei was clearly floundering. It turns out that even respected broadcasters with years of experience have no idea how to handle the twisted narrative about girls, and sex, and how adults feel about girls having sex, and what precisely it is about all of this that constitutes news. He turned to Berger and said - I quote - “Miley Cyrus - should we just ignore her? At which point I had to stop myself yelling Oh Fuck Off Fuck Off Just Fuck Off And Do Not Speak Ever Again at the camera in front of me.

Liste des cratères de Vénus Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. La liste des cratères sur Vénus recense les cratères connus de la planète ainsi que leurs noms. La morphologie des cratères de Vénus diffère de ceux des autres planètes[2]. Du fait de son atmosphère épaisse, il se peut que les météores aient tendance à exploser ou se désagréger en y pénétrant, les plus petits objets ne pouvant ainsi pas atteindre le sol[3]. Leur répartition est uniforme sur la surface de la planète et la plupart des cratères ont été créés sur deux périodes distinctes, celle du grand bombardement et une autre période plus récente de bombardement d'astéroïdes et de comètes[2]. La direction des longitudes croissantes est l'est. A[modifier | modifier le code] B[modifier | modifier le code] C[modifier | modifier le code] D[modifier | modifier le code] E[modifier | modifier le code] F[modifier | modifier le code] G[modifier | modifier le code] H[modifier | modifier le code] I[modifier | modifier le code] J[modifier | modifier le code]

Artist Francis Bacon on the Role of Suffering and Self-Knowledge in Creative Expression by Maria Popova “An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.” “When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer… his unique opportunity lies in the way he bears his burden,” Viktor Frank wrote in his spectacular 1946 treatise on the human search for meaning. We’re immersed in a great deal of cultural mythology regarding spiritual and psychoemotional suffering, but nowhere is it more dangerously romanticized than in the “tortured genius” myth of creative destiny — a myth whose patron saints include tragic heroes like Vincent van Gogh, David Foster Wallace and Sylvia Plath. It’s a formulation of creative pathology that I’ve always found toxic, and yet beneath it lies a deeper conversation about the role of suffering in human life and creative expression. Portrait of Francis Bacon by Irving Penn I think that life is violent and most people turn away from that side of it in an attempt to live a life that is screened. Of course I suffer. Donating = Loving

Comment les blogueuses féministes servent-elles la cause des femmes? "Prenons la Une!" Elles sont plusieurs centaines de journalistes à avoir signé un manifeste dans les colonnes de Libération le 3 mars, face à "la trop grande invisibilité des femmes dans les médias". Heureusement, Internet relève quelque peu la barre de la parité. D'après Médiamétrie, elles représentent la moitié des internautes en mars 2014, et 44,3% des créateurs de blogs à la fin de l'année 2012. Parmi ces blogueuses, une poignée défend la cause des femmes. Elles s'appellent Crêpe Georgette, Olympe ou encore Les Martiennes. >>> Retrouvez notre dossier sur le nouveau féminisme "Evidemment qu'Internet a changé la donne, pour le féminisme comme pour les autres mouvements, commente la sociologue Christine Delphy, activiste depuis 1965. "Presse de merde" La sémillante Charlotte Lazimi, journaliste et coauteure du blog Les Martiennes avec Myriam Levain, porte avec celui-ci "un regard féministe sur l'actualité". Valérie CG, alias Crêpe Georgette, est plus sceptique. "Électrons libres"

Femmes au Sénat en France Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. L’hémicycle du palais du Luxembourg, siège du Sénat. Histoire[modifier | modifier le code] Deuxième et Troisième Républiques[modifier | modifier le code] Gouvernement provisoire de la République[modifier | modifier le code] Après la déclaration du général de Gaulle du par laquelle il affirme que « tous les hommes et toutes les femmes éliront l'Assemblée nationale », Marthe Simard et Lucie Aubrac sont nommées membres de l'Assemblée consultative provisoire d'Alger[2]. En France, le droit de vote a été accordé aux femmes par le Comité français de la libération nationale, par ordonnance du , qui, dans son article 17, stipule que « les femmes sont électrices et éligibles dans les mêmes conditions que les hommes ». IVe et Ve Républiques[modifier | modifier le code] Synthèse des femmes élues au Sénat depuis 1946[modifier | modifier le code] Source : Sénat[4] Orientation politique[modifier | modifier le code] IVe République[modifier | modifier le code]

Maya Angelou on Identity and the Meaning of Life by Maria Popova “Life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you.” The light of the world has grown a little dimmer with the loss of the phenomenal Maya Angelou, but her legacy endures as a luminous beacon of strength, courage, and spiritual beauty. Angelou’s timeless wisdom shines with unparalleled light in a 1977 interview by journalist Judith Rich, found in Conversations with Maya Angelou (public library) — the same magnificent tome that gave us the beloved author’s conversation with Bill Moyers on freedom — in which Angelou explores issues of identity and the meaning of life. Reflecting on her life, Angelou — who rose to cultural prominence through the sheer tenacity of her character and talent, despite being born into a tumultuous working-class family, abandoned by her father at the age of three, and raped at the age of eight — tells Rich: I’ve been very fortunate… I seem to have a kind of blinkers. The kindnesses … I never forget them. Donating = Loving

Les 10 raisons pour lesquelles j’aime être une femme | Au creux de mon âme Disclaimer : venez pas me péter les ovaires parce que vous n’avez pas de second degré ni le recul nécessaire à la compréhension de ce texte à vocation sarcastique. Merci de votre attention et bonne lecture (ou pas). J’ai vu passer plusieurs textes sur les bonnes raisons d’aimer être une femme, dont celui-ci. Je n’ai pas 100 mais 10 très bonnes raisons de préférer mes organes génitaux bien à l’abri dans mon ventre. 1. Les ninjas c’est quand même fabuleusement cool. Taijutsu du cobra dans le RER pour esquiver les mains au cul, genjutsu du caméléon pour pouvoir me faire passer pour un sac à patates dans la rue le soir, tactique du tigre, de la mouette rieuse, du scorpion malgache, désormais toutes ces techniques sont à votre portée grâce au harcèlement de rue ! Bonus : +25 en agilité grâce au coup spécial du combo écrasage de pied/coup de coude dans le ventre du malotru qui a pris votre postérieur pour un essuie-mains. 2. Vous avez la sensation d’être un imposteur dans le monde du travail ?

Catégorie:Voie parisienne se référant à un nom de femme Une page de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Parmi les quelques 6000 voies de Paris, seules environ 130 sont baptisées d'un nom de femme[1], alors que les noms d'hommes sont beaucoup plus fréquents[2]. Ceci ne représente donc qu'un faible pourcentage, et parmi celles-ci, on trouve les noms d'anciennes propriétaires du terrain, d'épouses de personnage célèbre ou de saintes de l’Église catholique. Les noms de voies directement choisis pour honorer une femme remarquable sont donc rares. Bon nombre de ces voies sont aussi d'une longueur très limitée. Bibliographie : Malka Marcovich, Parisiennes. La présente catégorie inclut en outre des noms de communautés féminines (rue des Nonnains-d’Hyères par exemple). Articles absents[modifier | modifier le code] Sous-catégories Cette catégorie comprend la sous-catégorie suivante. Pages dans la catégorie « Voie parisienne se référant à un nom de femme » Cette catégorie contient les 196 pages suivantes.

The Ego and the Universe: Alan Watts on Becoming Who You Really Are by Maria Popova The cause of and cure for the illusion of separateness that keeps us from embracing the richness of life. During the 1950s and 1960s, British philosopher and writer Alan Watts began popularizing Eastern philosophy in the West, offering a wholly different perspective on inner wholeness in the age of anxiety and what it really means to live a life of purpose. Alan Watts, early 1970s (Image courtesy of Everett Collection) Though strictly nonreligious, the book explores many of the core inquiries which religions have historically tried to address — the problems of life and love, death and sorrow, the universe and our place in it, what it means to have an “I” at the center of our experience, and what the meaning of existence might be. The standard-brand religions, whether Jewish, Christian, Mohammedan, Hindu, or Buddhist, are — as now practiced — like exhausted mines: very hard to dig. Religions are divisive and quarrelsome. 'Möbius Structure of Relationships' by David Byrne.

My Two Cents on Feminism and Miley Cyrus We’re celebrating the end of the year with our most popular posts from 2013, plus a few of our favorites tossed in. Enjoy! Oddly, three high profile female musicians find themselves in a public debate about what it means to be a feminist. We can thank Miley Cyrus for the occasion. After claiming that the video for Wrecking Ball was inspired by Sinead O’Connor’s Nothing Compares to You, O’Connor wrote an open letter to the performer. No doubt informed by Cyrus’ performance at the VMAs, she argued that the music industry would inevitably exploit Cyrus’ body and leave her a shell of a human being. I keep receiving requests to add my two cents. Cyrus in Wrecking Ball: O’Connor warns Cyrus that the music industry is patriarchal and capitalist. The music business doesn’t give a shit about you, or any of us. Whether Cyrus ends up in rehab remains to be seen but O’Connor is, of course, right about the music industry. In Palmer’s utopia, no one gets to decide what’s best for women.

Chinese women poets Guan Daosheng (Chinese: 管道昇; 1262–1319) was a Chinese poet and painter who was active during the Yuan Dynasty. She is credited with being "the most famous female painter in Chinese history...remembered not only as a talented woman, but also as a prominent figure in the history of bamboo painting." She was born in Huzhou and was the wife of Zhao Mengfu, a renowned scholar-official and artist. They were married in 1286 and established a home in Wuxing "with the purchase of a town house with gardens in Huzhou, and a country retreat at Dongheng village near Deqing," where they were later buried. She was talented in calligraphy and painting ink bamboo and plum with delicate and elegant strokes. She inscribed poems on her paintings and used a style of poetry that was used rarely by women. Guan Daosheng died in 1319 at the age of 58 after a long illness.

Andy Warhol on Sex and Love by Maria Popova “Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don’t have it.” “Is sex necessary?” young E.B. White and James Thurber asked in their endlessly delightful 1929 collaboration. Warhol, who identified as gay and whose work drew heavily on his participation in the LGBT community, confessed to his biographer in 1980, at the age of fifty-two, that he was still a virgin. Portrait of Andy Warhol by Jack Mitchell Warhol’s central premise is that our greatest anguish about love and sex comes from the buildup of our fantasies and their inevitable clash with reality — the bodily counterpart to Stendhal’s “crystallization” theory. The most exciting thing is not-doing-it. Consciously or not, his facetious approach to the subject becomes a meta-testament to his core admonition — that we, as a culture, are taking sex far too seriously to actually derive joy from it. There should be a course in the first grade on love. Illustration from 'This Is Warhol.' Donating = Loving Share on Tumblr

Why Women Have So Many Clothes We’re celebrating the end of the year with our most popular posts from 2013, plus a few of our favorites tossed in. Enjoy! @bfwriter tweeted us a link to a college design student’s photograph that has gone viral. Rosea Lake posted the image to her tumblr and it struck a chord. What I like about the image is the way it very clearly illustrates two things. First, it reveals that doing femininity doesn’t mean obeying a single, simple rule. The second thing I like about this image is the way it shows that there is a significant price to pay for getting it wrong. And, of course, all women are going to get it wrong sometimes because the boundaries are moving targets and in the eye of the beholder. Indeed, this is why women have so many clothes! Women’s closets are often mocked as a form of self-indulgence, shop-a-holicism, or narcissism.

Les Antigones, nouvelles résistantes de la Méditerranée L’écriture laisse le temps aux femmes de prendre la parole Naïla Mansour, universitaire syrienne Naïla Mansour ne se considère pas comme représentative d’une réfugiée syrienne classique. « Avant la révolution, j’étais déconnectée du débat social et politique, raconte-t-elle. Vient alors le temps de l’écriture. Quitte l’obscur et viens Devant nous un moment En amie, avec le pas léger De la résolue, effrayante Détournée, je sais Comment tu redoutais la mort, mais Tu redoutais plus encore Une vie indigne. C’est ce poème de Bertold Brecht qui a inspiré "Les Nouvelles Antigones", une agora numérique portée par l’association "Sublimes Portes", qui traduit et rassemble les textes de femmes résistantes de la Méditerranée, blogueuses, poétesses, écrivaines. Dans le texte « Avoir 38 ans en Syrie », publié sur le site des Nouvelles Antigones, Naïla raconte la peur dans laquelle elle a grandi, après que son père ait été prisonnier politique durant de longues années. Cristina, elle, raconte.

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