Because I am a Woman
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Mayor Bloomberg is an asshole.
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A Park Slope sex toy store has the answer for residents that want some action on days when they just don’t want to get out of bed. Babeland is delivering kinky treats right to your home within an hour — teaming up with a bike courier company to bring adult goodies to Brooklyn horndogs because in Brooklyn, getting dildos should be no different than getting Domino’s… (Read the full story here)
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This protest is entering its second week and is getting little to no media coverage, and was even censored out of emails by Yahoo.
Hundreds of activists have been peacefully camping out in lower manhattan, demanding a break in our corrupt economic system.
Over 100 people have been arrested and there has been an increasing show of police brutality, with little to no violence coming from the protestors.
Please reblog this, and if you have the means of getting involved, please do it, even if that just means helping with provisions for the activists now living down there, or rallying for the ones arrested to be released.
Reblogging myself because still not enough people are aware of what’s happening. People are also not aware that cops are corralling people with mesh barricades and macing protesters and pulling their hair out while trapped.
People need to get mad and get involved. If you can’t be there, the link also provides information on how to send supplies and help.
A bunch of people from my school are headed there today. I wish I could go and support them!
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I participated in a fabulous project this weekend sponsored by the Lower East Side Girls Club called the Citizen Jane Project. This project involved 10 women artists painting murals of important and revolutionary women in America over the past 200 years. Following the creation of the mural will be a big push to get the young women of the community to vote. We painted these in the First Street Garden a few doors down from the Girl’s Club and couldn’t have asked for better weather!
Some of the women painted were Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Jane Adams, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and the woman I painted with Giannina Gutierrez: Susan B. Anthony.
I learned a lot in my research of Susan B. Anthony. She was one of the most important advocates in leading the way for women’s rights to be acknowledged and instituted in the American government. She fought until her death in 1906 to get women the right to vote which didn’t happen until 1920 with the passage of the 19th Amendment.
My realization that its been LESS than 100 years that women have been able to vote, and how many women fought for equality for us to live so freely now has made me truly appreciate my independence and right as a woman in America, especially as I raise the next generation of American woman.
I am proud and grateful as an artist and woman to have been a part of this project especially with my fellow artists: @Marthalicia @giasyellow @am_nyc and @Lichiban
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