Princess Elizabeth, on her 16th birthday on April 21, 1942, reviews the Grenadier guards, the most senior regiment of British infantry. She was appointed as the Colonel-in-Chief as part of her expanding royal duties.
FIFA has lifted the hijab ban that’s been in place since 2007!
FIFA has lifted the hijab ban that’s been in place since 2007!
All the ladies! All the football! Fuck yeah.
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woooooooooooo!!
!! Fantastic news!
Oh, neat!
Comandanta Ramona was an officer of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), an indigenous rights movement in Mexico.
“She was said to be the most belligerent, aggressive and intransigent of all the Zapatistas, it was Comandante Ramona who—on horseback—led the military charge on San Cristobal during the EZLN’s uprising in January 1994.”
Later, “the sight of this brave and frail woman defiantly shouting ‘Ya Basta!’ (Enough is Enough!) catapulted her onto the world state. The media dubbed her “The Petite Warrior” and the Mexican government grew so fearful of her emblematic power that in 1997 they cynically spread false information that she had died.”
After consulting with indigenous communities on the status of women, the EZLN came up with the “Revolutionary Women’s Law,” which stated:
- Women, regardless of their race, creed, color of political affiliation, have the right to participate in the revolutionary struggle in any way that their desire and capacity determine.
- Women have the right to work and receive a fair salary
- Women have the right to decide the number of children they have and care for.
- Women have the right to participate in the matters of the community and have charge if they are free and democratically elected.
- Women and their children have the right to Primary Attention in their health and nutrition
- Women have the right to an education
- Women have the right to choose their partner and are not obliged to enter into marriage.
- Women have the right to be free from violence from both relatives and strangers.
- Women will be able to occupy positions of leadership in the organization and hold military ranks in the revolutionary armed forces
- Women will have all the rights and obligations which revolutionary laws and regulations give.
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I like being a woman, even in a man’s world. After all, men can’t wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.
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girl power!
Pamela Singh, Chipko Women Hug Tree to Protect it from Being Cut in Northern Uttar Pradesh, 1994
ONE LAST MISFITS POST. I hope you guys make use of Missing E. And if not…well. This sort of spoiler sort of gives hope for the episode, especially since the episode starts on questionable grounds.
If you have thoughts about the episode, though, feel free to wander over to my tumblr let me know what you thought…I’m dying to hear what people have to say and I don’t exactly want to go to IMDB to talk about it.
Nobel Peace Prize winners. From left to right: President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia (AP Photo); Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee (AP); Yemeni Tawakul Karman who head the organisation Women Journalists Without Chains (AP).
They were awarded the prize for “for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work.” Johnson-Sirleaf is Liberia’s first elected female president and has acted as a reformer in her time in office. Gbowee organized a group of Christian and Muslim women to stand up to Liberian warlords. Karman is a Yemeni journalist who is both a women’s rights activist and a leading protest organiser in Yemen’s Arab Spring uprisings.
This is so great.
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