#internationaldayofthewoman

[mynameistolula]

✨ #FlashbackFriday ✨ Only a few weeks ago we were free & celebrating womanhood ♀️ for #internationalwomensday ♀️• Thanks to all that came out, thank you to @nanaghana for hosting and organizing a wonderful line up for the day's event for her #embodiment Women's Day series • Amazing speakers and screening of her powerful film. 🎬🎥 LA Woman Rising. • • I feel like that spirit from that day was carried forward to now, when we have to support each other, quarantine and care for each other during this crisis. 🧼🤝💖🙏🏽 #StayHome #Covid19 #Quarantine • Oh yeah, lovers, 🥰 support where you can! PATREON 💗 https://www.patreon.com/mynameistolula • • • • • • • • • • • #coronavirusartistsurvival #thrivingduringacrisis #Internationaldayofthewoman #eventsdj #femaledj #pussypower #coronavirus #sohohousewesthollywood #LiveDJParty (at Soho House West Hollywood) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-iF4SFg_Lj/?igshid=q8jjpb0k984r

[lbalmes]

Celebrating #internationaldayofthewoman with a shout out to these lovelies involved in this years #nwnaturalstreetofdreams @streetofdreamspdx @homebuilderspdx #womeninconstruction #womeninbuilding (at Chehalem Tasting Room & Wine Bar) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca5mJtJPPHY/?utm_medium=tumblr

[iamgunnshy]

Coming out can be a very difficult thing. Even more so if you are raised in the church and under the believe that homosexuality is a sin that leads to a one way ticket to hell. Now add being a black woman to that. A black woman who is told to work twice as hard to be considered half as good. A black woman who is conditioned to take care of everyone else while neglecting her own needs. A black woman in a society that emphasizes having a MAN on your arm and in your bed as real success despite any other achievement. A black woman who even though we have the highest stats of depression and mental health issues is too ashamed to actually seek treatment because she’s supposed to be “the strong one” This is what it is like for countless women around the world and this is why making 16 Minutes is so important to us with @rowdygunnshyproductions To learn more about the film and help us make it a reality visit our Indiegogo Page. Link in bio. * * * #worldmentalhealthday #nationalcomingoutday #dayofbthegirl #internationaldayofthewoman #TWLOHA #girlpower #growingupblack #loveislove #lgbtq #blackgirlmagic #depression #stopsuicide #donate #houston #indiefilm #filmmakers #womeninfilm #help #lesbian #indiegogo #thepoweroffilm https://www.instagram.com/p/Boy_vP_Ajvu/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=y7achmih1x6n

[apogeudoabismo]

Parabéns a todas as mulheres. Neste e em todos os dias, vocês são fundamentais em nossas vidas. #internationaldayofthewoman #diainternacionaldamulher

[naturalswimmingspirit]

nakedinthewild

Thoughts on International Day of the Woman and #daywithoutawoman: Today I’ve been thinking about a conversation I had with a friend and fellow river guide, @mikey_mckay a while back. We talked about the Grand Canyon, and we talked about how the energy of massive walls of rock felt very masculine, while the the river felt feminine. If any of you have paddled big water, you know it’s mercurial, extreme, rewarding, immensely fun, high consequence, and bestowed with a mind of its own. The river is also a giver of life, a veiny oasis that runs through an otherwise inhospitable desert. Speaking from personal experience, many women also embody these qualities. Over countless years, the river has eroded away solid rock and changed the landscape to create something striking, something iconic that people travel the world to see. The rock forms calm pools and tumultuous drops, a tactile symbol of life. A constant balance of the feminine and the masculine. Picture the Grand Canyon without water, picture the earth without the life giving force that both water and women possess. Today I’d like to show some appreciation for all the incredible, strong women in my life. Y’all are rockstars, and I don’t know where I’d be without you! // #internationaldayofthewoman #dayofthewoman #yesallwomen #daywithoutawoman

[limniajewelry]

Boundless and unstoppable together. #internationaldayofthewoman (at New York, New York)

[agrapefruitspassions]

Badass Women: the March edition

   Since March is Women’s Month, and March 8th specifically is International Day of the Woman, instead of just focusing on one badass woman for the month, every week I am going to write about one female author that I’m excited to read about during the upcoming year. They will be women that I don’t know much about, and have never read yet.

   The first one that I will write about today is Dorothy Parker. She wrote poetry, short stories, book reviews, and later screen plays, and was known for her witty commentary and sometimes controversial remarks, some of which would get her fired from Vanity Fair and blacklisted in Hollywood during the 1950s Communist scare. She was on the board of editors of The New Yorker (along with Robert Benchley) and published hundreds of poems and free verses in various literary magazines.

   Twice married and once divorced, Parker’s poetry was known for dealing with polemical topics such as her love affairs and suicide. Parker and her second husband had a Frida and Diego-like relationship, divorcing only to remarry and then having a series of separations and reconciliations. Parker was open about her affairs, and when one of them ended in pregnancy and she had an abortion, she was open about that, too.

   Parker was also notoriously outspoken on behalf of civil rights and civil liberties, which is what got her added to the Hollywood blacklist in the 1950s. She was involved with the Loyalist cause in the Spanish Civil War, helping refugees resettle in Mexico and raising money for various organizations associated with the Civil War.

   She led a fiercely independent life, and has a tome of work to show for it. “The Portable Dorothy Parker”, one of only three Portable series that has been continuously in print (along with the Bible and Shakespeare) is currently awaiting me. I hope that reading this has inspired you to read something not just by Parker, but by women in general. It’s our duty now to give women writers, actors, activists, politicians, etc. etc. the recognition they deserve and were not given when they were alive. Strong women: may we be them, may we know them, may we raise them.