My friend is a history teacher. She's compiling a list of great historical figures and she needs a male to add to the list. Suggestions?
- manwhohasitall (@manwhohasitall) September 1, 2017

The threads are just amazing. And I have learned the term 'suffragent'! :D

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I just rewatched Mad Max: Fury Road for the first time in about a year and now I'm all in my feels about female characters, so: a thread.
- Foz Meadows (@fozmeadows) September 1, 2017

Read the whole thread. Very much worth your while. Money quote:

That's how implausible female strength is to these people: they literally think it's an element of ( Read more... )

Labour makes dramatic Brexit shift and backs single market membership
Party opens clear divide with Tories, with support for free movement and paying into EU budgets for up to four years
(thank god!)

Unearthing the legacy of Harvard's female 'computers'

US schools to get new world map after 500 years of 'colonial' distortion

Donald Trump's ( Read more... )

Serendipity is a funny thing ( Read more... )

So, I have somehow collected a whole bunch of links again...

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'Peter and Jane and Mummy Too' writes about International Women's Day.
Random quote (it's all good):

Women’s rights have come so far in just the last 100 years, but despite that, predictions suggest that the gender gap won’t fully close until 2186 (World Economic Forum). So, true equality may possibly not exist until our granddaughters’ ( Read more... )

Happened to have gathered a collection of female-centric links, so here you go! :)


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The "Day Without a Woman" strike, explained
On International Women’s Day, women across the world will strike against President Trump and the social injustices that helped him rise to power.

Good luck!!

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BBC: Piers Morgan quits RTS awards after criticism

Washington Post: Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos resigns following outrage over his past comments about pedophilia

The New Yorker: How Alt-Right “Fellow-Traveller” Milo Yiannopoulos Cracked Up the Right

BBC: Donald Trump: MPs clash over UK state visit
Mr Flynn, a member of the petitions committee ( Read more... )

I miss Hillary Clinton.
- Sarah Lerner (@SarahLerner) February 18, 2017

Penelope Trunk: Grit is overrated; the hardest worker never wins
Especially this part:

I have thought for a long time that all the time management gurus are men because men have huge chunks of time uninterrupted by children. And the workplace is organized for time ( Read more... )