#women��s history

[forsapphics]

Two couples of women kissing (1900s)

[the-blueprint]

They just dont do Late Night like this anymore! Iconic Hip-Hop Moments that should never be forgotten

The Arsenio Hall Show

[yourdailyqueer]

do you have any posts about lesbians that were alive in the 1800s, I’m interested in that era and have been looking for some <3

Those actually labelled as Lesbian (I also have some bisexuals and *trans people from that era as well if interested):

I'm not counting anyone born after 1880 as they most likely didn't get well known in that era etc.

After 1800

Emma Stebbins - Born 1815

Charlotte Cushman - Born 1816

Rosalie Sully and Anne Hampton Brewster - born 1818

Matilda Hay - Born 1820

Rosa Bonheur - Born 1822

Adelaide Anne Procter - Born 1825

Emily Blackwell - Born 1826

Louisa Baring - Born 1827

Emily Dickinson and Harriet Hosmer - Born 1830

Felicita Vestvali and Amelia Edwards - Born 1831

Margaret Macpherson Grant - Born 1834

Octavia Hill - Born 1838

Emma Crow - Born 1839

Sophia Jex-Blake - Born 1840

Maria Louise Pool and Ella Wesner - Born 1841

Maria Konopnicka - 1842

Anna Yevreinova and Sarah Bernhardt - Born 1844

Annie Hindle - Born 1845

Rose Cleveland - Born 1846

Josie Mansfield - Born 1847

Edwina Kruse - Born 1848

Marie Fillunger - Born 1850

Eugenie Schumann - Born 1851

Sophie Elkan, Isa Asp and Louise Abbéma - Born 1853

Mary Garrett - Born 1854

Palmire Dumont - Born 1855

Louise Catherine Breslau, Anna Elizabeth Klumpke and Elisabeth Marbury - Born 1856

Ika Freudenberg, Lilian Welsh, Selma Lagerlöf, Eleonora Duse and Ethel Smyth - Born 1858

Lucy Elmina Anthony, Margaret Todd and Elsie de Wolfe - Born 1859

Rachilde and Jane Addams - Born 1860

Edith Watson, Vida Dutton Scudder, Valborg Olander and Maria Dulębianka - Born 1861

Loie Fuller - Born 1862

Madeleine Zillhardt, Hélène van Zuylen and Mathilde de Morny - Born 1863

Vesta Tilley and Johanna Elberskirchen - Born 1864

Sophia Goudstikker and Winnaretta Singer - Born 1865

Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal - Born 1866

Władysława Habicht, Polyxena Solovyova and Evelina Haverfield - Born 1867

Lida Heymann and Edith Lake Wilkinson - Born 1868 

Caroline Spurgeon, Edith Craig, Emma Willits, Flora Murray - Born 1869

Ethel Richardson, Agnes Elisabeth Overbeck, Gabrielle Bloch and Princess Vera Gedroits - Born 1870

Cicely Hamilton, Violet Gordon-Woodhouse, Elizabeth Fisher Read, Celia Wray, Maude Adams - Born 1872

Louisa Garrett Anderson, Sara Josephine Baker, Maud Allan - Born 1873

Lilian Barker, Pepi Litman, Mary Dewson, Toupie Lowther, Romaine Brooks, Gertrude Stein, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Rachel Barrett and Amy Lowell - Born 1874

Élisabeth de Gramont - Born 1875

Alfhild Tamm, Sibilla Aleramo and Natalie Clifford Barney - Born 1876

Virginia Gildersleeve, Renée Vivien and Alice B. Toklas - Born 1877

Wanda Landowska and Alla Nazimova - Born 1879

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 74: Assorted Performances XIII

These Questions are the result of suggestions from the previous iteration.

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration.

[resplendentoutfit]

1920s Aqua Velvet

José Storie (1899-1961) • Portrait of a Lady with a Green Dress • 1934.

1920s and 1930s dress styles

Vittorio Matteo Corcos (Italian, 1859-1933) • Ritratto di donna (Portrait of a Woman) • c. 1925

[mx-loar-tev]

If I had money I would hire some thug to find the producers or whatever head honchos that got to decide that making some character or another canonically queer was a bad idea for whatever bullshit reasons and the thug would just shake them like a fruit tree until the guys in charge would admit being homophobic assholes and they would promise to let writers make same-gender characters fall in love with each other if the comedians had enough chemistry, but also to include more diverse identities. The thug would force them to write it all down and sign it.

If I could do that a few times, imagine how different TV shows would become.

If I had money I would spend it all to please the gays and queers.

[talk-nerdy-to-me-thyla]

A video essay by Jessie gender (she has great st videos I recommend checking her out) about early star trek fandom

The women who pioneered it, secured a second season, and wrote the first zines and fan fictions! Also the complicated relationship between them and the production crew.

Not to forget spocks rise in popularity, and Shatners humongous ego that almost sunk the whole show from the inside.

[a-s-fischer]

I have to wonder if a large part of the controversy among ammature "ripperologists" when Hallie Rubenhold's The Five came out, was not only that she showed that three of the five canonical ripper victims were not and had never been sex workers, but that four of the women were middle aged to elderly, and homeless.

[hooked-on-elvis]

Diana Goodman and the first jewelry piece Elvis gifted her with (1975), a sapphire and diamond ring, to which her first reaction was to ask him: "Is that real?"

Credits: screenshot from Youtube channel "Those Elvis Girls." I recommend you to WATCH the full video interview on "Elvis Presley and Diana Goodman: A Southern Belle's Love Story"... there's many good stories and details on Diana's time with Elvis. She's such a lovely lady! To watch the video, click HERE.

I had already read Diana's brief love affair story with Elvis prior to watching this video interview and I have SO MUCH to say about it, but I had never saw the actual ring and had to share it because that story just broke me down laughing (sorry about the poor quality in the photos guys).

Diana said Elvis was SO OFFENDED with her question! I can't stop imagining the inflection in his voice like it was in the 50s… You know in the movie "Loving You" (1957) when Deke Rivers was gifted with a shirt and he says "For me?" in that cute little high-pitched tone it's so adorable? Yeah, I paint that scene from Diana's story like that in my mind… the surprise in Elvis' voice to think Diana would even consider him giving her fake jewelry. Like, wide-eyes Elvis staring at her: "Are you serious?" Anyway, that's one of the little details that make Elvis gifting people stories adorable!

[haggishlyhagging]

For many young women [Emma] Goldman came to be viewed as the symbol of liberation. That Goldman herself was not insulted by some of the views of her admirers demonstrated the extent of her misunderstanding of her own appeal. One woman compared a Goldman speech to "a glass of fine, old wine," under the influence of which the listener grew "more and more excited and stimulated . . . until finally I feel I can sit quietly no longer, but just must give expression somehow to the surge of thought and feeling she awakens." Louise Bryant likened Goldman to "the other good things that come to us, like the spring and the rain and the sunshine," and referred to her lectures as "inspirational messages" of "healing and life-giving qualities.

These women might have substituted with equal results a sermon of Billy Sunday, or a concert or play, for all the difference it made to the creation of a revolutionary movement. Goldman provided entertainment; perhaps her young admirers expected little more. Nevertheless, the relationship between Goldman and these young women had a more serious and more disturbing aspect. Goldman was a remarkable figure who may have given these women a sense of being included in "the Cosmic secrets of nature," but they misinterpreted emotional experience as revolutionary commitment. In return for their admiration, the young bohemians expected Goldman to shoulder for them the burden of the consequences of political activism. Nearly the whole of anarchist philosophy was reduced to hero-worship of those few individuals who were willing to do the things that others were prepared only to imagine—to endure the unwelcome attention of the authorities, to accept prison, to act as surrogates for those who wished to have something in which to believe but not necessarily to emulate.

-Margaret S. Marsh, Anarchist Women, 1870-1920

[fellhellion]

it’s always wild to me when people act like p4 and 5 are the origin for where the series’ storytelling somehow trips and stumbles into depictions of misogyny. like girl come now, p3 originally was designed with no expectation of it being possible to have female friends within the game’s social links - friendship with women within the original game’s life sim mechanics was textually an impossible outcome.

[forsapphics]

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

translated by Anne Carson

[fuckrealityfictionisbetter]

The most harmful historical lie in the internet is that women didn’t used to work, women have always had jobs, not just unpaid labour but also as maids, washer women, milkmaids, seamstress, shop keepers, weavers, phone operators, spies, barmaids and so much more, this idea that women could simply be house wives is incredibly harmful for both peoples historical understanding of the world and feminism,

women have always worked, despite a lack of a bank account or protection, your country was built on the back of women who kept your politicians fed and washed, who made breakthroughs in weaving and dying, who kept your country running though every war and invasion

Women have always worked 

[mistressofthemacabresworld]

🫧

[resplendentoutfit]

1930s Plaids

Late 1930s

Burberry wool cape • 1937 • Metropolitan Museum of Art

[horses-in-art-history]

Left to right: detail from a study for The Horse Fair, and detail from The Horse Fair.

From sketch to finished piece. It's interesting to see how Rosa Bonheur chose to change quite a few details even in a relatively small section of the composition.

(Picture source for The Horse Fair, and a study for The Horse Fair)