#women's rights activists

[womenshistory]

Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (October 25, 1900 – April 13, 1978)

Educator, political campaigner, women's rights activist, and the first woman to drive a car in Nigeria.

Ransome-Kuti established multiple women's rights unions, including the Abeokuta Women's Union, Nigerian Women's Union, and Federation of Nigerian Women's Societies. From 1963 until her passing, she served as president of the Nigerian branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She demanded better representation of women in local governing bodies and an end to unfair taxes on market women, and additionally arranged literacy classes for low-income women.

[miiaspeaks]

read it and weep, idiots

[tatersgonnatate]

A FEMALE WOMEN'S RIGHTS ACTIVIST SCIENTIST!!!!!! 😩 I'd ask why we aren't being taught about her but... deep down we already know. (Hint: it's called sexism)

The fight against climate change is much older than you might think, with the seed of modern climate science snaking its way through the annals of academic history to a name you might not have even heard of: Eunice Newton Foote.

Foote was a women's rights activist. She was the first woman to be published in a physics journal. She hypothesized what would later be the general public's leading touchstone for measuring climate change. She was also born — perhaps shockingly — in 1819.

Most importantly, Foote's work is strong proof that we've long known the Earth's climate is sensitive to human actions. Foote's 1856 paper "Circumstances Affecting the Heat of Sun’s Rays" laid the foundation(opens in a new tab) for much of our modern concept of atmospheric warming, as she theorized that changes in carbon dioxide could affect the Earth's temperature. Three years later, scientist John Tyndall would be credited for laying the groundwork of climate science. Foote's research was largely ignored during the more than 100 years following her death, until the scientific community began recognizing her early contributions in the 2010s(opens in a new tab). 

[soup-mother]

I know not everyone filter tags it and it's not like every single post is made by a raging transmisogynist but it always throws me off seeing mutuals etc reblog transandrophobia posts especially when they're from people who've openly harassed trans women i care about. like ok you're lucky we are friends because i have unfollowed people for less than that lol.

[whenweallvote]

We are saddened to hear about the passing of Dorie Ann Ladner, lifelong voting rights activist. 🕊️🗳️

Ms. Ladner participated in every major civil rights protest of the 1960s, including the March on Washington and the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. She was a key organizer in her home state of Mississippi, with contributions to the NAACP and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In June 1964, she launched a volunteer campaign called “Mississippi Freedom Summer,” with a goal of registering as many Black voters as possible. 

We remember and honor Dorie through the words of her sister and fellow activist, Joyce Ladner: as someone who “fought tenaciously for the underdog and the dispossessed,” and “left a profound legacy of service.”

[fictionadventurer]

Every time I think I've officially given up on the WWI Persuasion retelling, I remember war poet Captain Benwick, and I need it to come into existence.

[facelesspassport]

Today I heard someone say that there is an "insecurity epidemic among young men" and I am just so fucking happy someone has FINALLY given me the words to describe what is happening to the world. I keep hearing whinging about "men's mental health crisis" and "male loneliness" and "male suicide rates" blahblah in spite of the fact that none of that stuff is actually an issue. Women's depression and rates of suicide attempts have remained consistently higher than men's over the years, and if we look at sex stats you'll see that the rise of loneliness is actually affecting women at very similar rates to men (12% and 14% celibacy rates in the US, respectively). Not to mention the suicide attempts of young women and girls have sky-rocketed in the last couple of years. Suicidal ideation in girls in my country is currently double that of boys. In spite of all this we still see males lashing out en masse, claiming that "men are under attack", "women are privileged", and feminism is "ruining men's lives". Even though none of their claims have any basis in reality there is still an obvious problem here- something is very disturbed in the modern male psyche; but I have not seen anyone accurately label the issue until today. There is an insecurity epidemic among men. Women are finally attending classes, entering the workplace, and gaining voting rights in most countries around the world. These changes are a recent development and they are making modern men question their place in society- as they should. Sadly, instead of taking this time to self reflect, men are desperately trying to stop women's suffrage and cry "abuse" whenever we hold firm. What we are seeing is a big, glorified tantrum, not a "mental health crisis". I am not sure how we would go about fixing this problem but I'm glad that I am finally able to name it!! I thank D'Angelo Wallace for the help.

[hard--headed--woman]

woman : *is a very smart and brave activist that fights for human rights, always helps people and tries to make the word a better place, widely criticizes discriminations, fights against them, makes wonderful speeches and books*

people : yeahhhh she does good stuff but idk she just doesn't seem nice, she didn't talk about literally all the issues that exist on this planet and it's very problematic...also she doesn't smile enough and her hair is ugly 🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️ i just don't like her that's my right

man : "i think hitting a woman is kinda bad"

people : OMGGGGGG WHAT A WONDERFUL PERSON!!!!!! 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 HE'S SUCH A SWEETHEART AND A GIFT TO THIS WORLD AND ESPECIALLY WOMEN 😍😍😍😍😍 I LOVE HIM SOOOOOO MUCH WHY ISN’T EVERYONE LIKE HIM???? 😍😍😍😍😍😍 BEST HUMAN BEING OF THIS WORLD 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 AN EXAMPLE OF KINDNESS AND PURE SOUL 😍😍😍😍 BEST ACTIVIST OF THE CENTURY 😍😍😍😍

[whereserpentswalk]

I hate how even in pro choice spaces abortions are seen as sad or shameful or taboo. Having had an abortion should make someone more charming and endearing to you I think.

[fvckw4d]

Queer and disabled and nonwhite cis men have been fighting for reproductive rights for the entire fucking time, but sure, tell me how trans and intersex men can't possibly have any skin in the game "because they're men."

[stillarandom-radfem]

I am so sick of all of this "be kind" shit from the genderist crowd. Not only is it definitely playing hard into the hands of female socialization to always appear nurturing and sweet and never make men mad under any circumstances, but also... I mean, let's be honest, here. These people are not kind. There is nothing kind about allowing gay, autistic, and/or sexually traumatized children to be medically experimented on for profit after only one, one hour-long psych session, or letting them be sexually groomed by various adult men with neither the knowledge nor the approval of their parents. There is nothing kind about enforcing sexist stereotypes, and scaring people into unnecessary medical procedures because you've lied and told them that they will kill themselves if they don't get them in order to conform. There is nothing kind about using self-ID laws to rob women of safety from predatory men because you think that men's feelings are more important than making sure women aren't traumatized by them in their own private spaces that are supposed to be women-only. There is nothing kind about robbing women of scholarships, awards, and medals meant for women because, again, you believe that men's feelings matter more than anything, including women's ability to have proper livelihoods and role models of the same sex. And there is nothing kind about telling LGB people that they are evil bigots if they don't want to date/fuck trans people of the opposite sex. You don't know that they haven't already spent a good chunk of their lives being ridiculed for their same-sex attraction, and now you want to call them evil because of an innate attraction that they can't control?!

Nothing about any of this is kind, because at the core of real, genuine kindness is genuine empathy and concern for other people and a desire to ensure that they don't come into harm's way. Supporting things that hurt other people or sitting back and watching them self-harm isn't kindness. Even if you're doing it for social approval. Even if they put on a big show about how they supposedly like it, but their faces betray a sadness that they refuse to convey in words and you can't help but get the feeling while talking to them that something is eating them up inside. Continuing to promote it in order to look good or get them to like you isn't kindness, it's acquiescence, and that's not remotely the same thing. Because genuinely kind people are concerned with actions that show genuine concern for other people. They want to do right by them because they care about them. It's all about actually being kind, not just presenting the veneer of it for woke points. The trans crowd are such hard-core individualists that they wouldn't know anything about that.

[punkeropercyjackson]

Yes trans women are women but also trans women are trans.Please stop acting like trans men and enbys are the ultimate say so's of transgender people and that something being transmisogynistic is outweighed by (often white) transmasc/unaligned people liking it

[miiaspeaks]

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from @GraffitiRadical on twt

[chaos-of-the-abyss]

wait i thought i’d seen the full extent of the silm fandom’s misogyny but i guess the silm fandom can always hate female characters more because apparently?? people believe indis the manipulative malicious bitch came onto and cajoled and stalked finwe until he relented and married her all while specifically aiming to make it so that miriel could never come back and she could have finwe's dick for all of eternity and abuse poor helpless feanor to her black shriveled heart’s content??? apparently that is a take that exists and has shooters??? yall are truly smoking that good stuff

[aq2003]

if anyone is a fan of dt's voice work/audio dramas like i am and wants to listen to something random they've likely never heard before (or if you're coming down from the tony-baddingham-rivals high and want to see (hear) him play an entirely different yet equally complicated guy) i recommend murder in samarkand! it's quite good :)

cw: explicit mentions of SA/police brutality, islamophobia, and suicidal ideation

(youtube link)

(official site: mp3 download/soundcloud link)

[fayegonnaslay]

Jane Fonda on National Secretaries Day, 1980.