The CIA will just do any shit

Favorite song by her.

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TL;DR – Twitter thread by a library worker on a news article about a woman who pulled hundreds of books out of a library dumpster and donated them to an underserved school. THOSE BOOKS WERE THROWN OUT FOR A REASON. Like outdated science, racism, and misogyny. #ContextMatters 

A California redwood forest has officially been returned to a group of Native tribes https://www.npr.org/2022/01/26/1075778055/california-redwood-forest-native-american-tribes

George Rodriguez/all images courtesy of Hat & Beard Press

George Rodriguez, now 80, still doesn’t go anywhere without taking pictures.

“People don’t recognize me without my camera,” he tells NPR’s Mandalit Del Barco. “I like to document everything that’s goin’ on.”

For nearly six decades, the photographer has chronicled Los Angeles: Hollywood, the Chicano movement, hip-hop pioneers and beyond. His work is now being celebrated with his first retrospective, at the Lodge Gallery in Los Angeles, and a book called Double Vision: The Photography of George Rodriguez.

Check out Mandalit’s profile of him here.

– Petra

Bingo

Doc Ock when he saw Tom Holland’s Spider-Man instead of Tobey

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Señor del fuego 🔥 bit.ly/Huehueteotl_Leyenda

Hell Hath No Fury like Women Armed to the Teeth

The Mexican Revolution had no shortage of strong women, many of whom had no qualms about leading a large group of rebels against (what they viewed as) an unjust government.

These women who were just as fierce (two of which have previously been discussed on this page) as the medieval and Renaissance women from popular history. However, unlike the affluent women of the aforementioned eras, revolutionary women had a LOT to lose. But they never backed down. Most of them received were far from the radicals that their rivals depicted them as. From their POV, they were fighting for a cause greater than them. Initially some joined the fight to aid their husbands and other male relatives but as time went on, they became fully committed to the movement.

Another similarity between these women and the iconic women of the medieval and Renaissance eras is the contrast between each ideological movement. The two main revolutionary leaders/”bandidos” (aka bandits) of the Mexican Revolution are Emilian Zapata and Doroteo Arango (better known as Pancho Villa). While the two men had a lot in common, their movements differed. Zapata’s movement had more to do with land rights. The women in his movement, like their leader himself, echoed his sentiment when he said, “es mejor morir de pie que vivir de rodillas.” (“It is better to die standing than live on your knees.) As such, those on the opposite end, knew that these were women who wouldn’t fight till the bitter end.

In the North, where most of Pancho Villa's forces were, revolutionary women were equally feared. Some of them took up leadership positions. Many of these women had become part of this movement since before Franciso I. Madero's election. They were against the Porfiriato (Porfirio Diaz' dictatorship which lasted for three decades). Their celebration of Madero's election as Mexico's new president was cut short following his assassination. With the country plunged into civil war, they took up arms. What ensued is one of the bloodiest conflicts in Mexican history. The women who fought in this conflict, used every weapon at their disposal. Some cotributed by using the pen rather than the sword to fight, while others did both, arming themselves to the teeth. Then there were the women on the opposite end, who were wholly against the revolutionary movement and sided with the government. They too made themselves heard.

Images: Emiliano and Eufemio Zapata with their respective wives. Clara de la Rocha with her father and fellow revolutionary fighter, Herculano de la Rocha. Armed mother and soldadera with her sons at each side.

El arte urbano en Parque Nacional Barranca de Cupatitzio, Uruapan, México 💙

Rkkaaay on twitter.

“young adult dystopian novels are so unrealistic lmao like they always have some random teenage girl rising up to inspire the world to make change.”

a hero emerges 

And just like in the novels, grown men and women are going out of their way to destroy her. Support our hero.

And it’s not even like it doesn’t happen regularly.  

Teenage girls are amazing.

Sometimes they’re not even teenagers

Reblog every time a girl is discredited/ignored

Who they are:

Emma Gonzalez

Malala Yousafzai

Ruby Bridges

Greta Thunberg

Mari Copeny

Autumn Peltier

Afreen Khan

Sophie Cruz

Charlottesville Black Students Union

Naomi Wadler

DAPL protestors (names not found)

Ahed Tamimi

This isn’t a coincidence. Revolutions almost always happen when the population of a country is at its youngest and that’s a lot more true nowadays with social media.

Claudette Colvin was actually the first one to refuse her seat in Montgomery, Alabama to a white passenger. The movement chose to promote Rosa Parks as the figure for that form of protest because Claudette was a pregnant 15-year-old girl.

Barbara Rose Johns was a 16-year-old who organized a student strike protesting segregated schools. This strike, after gaining support of the NAACP, became a lawsuit that turned into Brown vs. The Board of Education and resulted in the desegregation of U.S schools nationally.

7th-grader Mary Beth Tinker, disturbed by the Vietnam War, decided to wear an arm band with a peace sign on it in protest. Her school suspended her. Her family filed a suit, Tinker vs. Des Moines, which reached the Supreme Court and ruled in her favor, ensuring that students and teachers maintain their right to free speech while in school.

Freddie & Truus Oversteegen were sisters who joined a Dutch resistance movement in WWII in their teens. They lured, ambushed, and assassinated Nazis and Dutch collaborators. They also blew up a railway line, transported Jewish refugees to new hiding places, and worked in an emergency hospital. 

Our history books may like to showcase male figures, but behind every movement is a young girl ready to make a change. It was true then, it’s true now, and future generations of teenage girls will go on to inspire progress, whether they’re credited or not.

This is Lepa Radic, a 17 year old girl who fought against the Nazis in Yugoslavia. She was executed when she refused to give the names of her Partisan comrades.

And this is Sophie Scholl, part of the White Rose group, also against the Nazis. She was 21 when she was killed.

Girls are at the front of every movement

i look up to all these girls so much oml. they inspire so many people!