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"I'll get the shuttle ready. I'll give you about - about seven minutes. Come back up here. I'll shut the switches off and we'll blow this fucker off into space." Horror Character Appreciation - Sigourney Weaver as Ripley in Alien (1979) dir. Ridley Scott

#warrior women #alien 1979 #ellen ripley #animated gif #sigourney weaver

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warrior women, martial arts, nunchaku, video

Nunchaku precision by @楚儿霸王🔥

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"As boys and men went out on the boats — “my grandfather was nine when he started,” said the local historian Arlette Julien — girls and women were in the canneries, some from the age of eight, some up to 80. They’d be called in at any time of day or night, whenever the boats came in: in pre-fridge days, sardines needed treating fast.

Dressed in long heavy skirts and clogs, the women would work up to 18 hours non-stop, go home at midnight and then be called back in at 4am. The floors were filthy with mud and sardine guts, the women’s hands wrecked by brine, toilets often a distant rumour … all for 80 centimes an hour. That 80 centimes was just enough to buy a litre of milk, half the wage of a professional washerwoman. All ages earned the same amount.

The strike struck on November 21 and within days 2,100 people were out, 1,600 of them women. The Communist mayor Daniel Le Flanchec pulled the town council behind the strike. He called in Communist support from all over France.

Thus was assured a level of organisation not experienced by earlier French strikes. Funds were raised, soup kitchens sorted, Christmas presents for children arranged and marches assembled. The strike became a national issue.

Finally, though, and after six weeks, the cannery owners were forced to negotiate. They conceded overtime payments, a ban on work for girls under 12 — and a pay rise to one franc an hour. Men got 50 centimes more. “Equal pay wasn’t an issue. The movement was born of desperation,” the history teacher Françoise Pencalet said. “The women simply wanted a little more than what they had.”

#warrior women #women in history #20th century #french history #working women

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So um,

Yesterday, I learned that apparently, no one talks to Ashkenazi trans girls or women about breast cancer.

If you are taking female HRT, you are at a similar risk of breast cancer as a cis woman. And Ashkenazi women are at a higher risk than the average woman due in part to gene mutations.

Unfortunately, despite that, not all health insurances cover routine mammograms for trans women.

This makes it super super important that you do your monthly Breast Self-Exams (BSE) at home.

I've copied a video on how to perform a BSE below, but just a note that Ashkenazi women are more prone to breast cancer in general and at a younger age, so please if you do feel anything, make an appointment with your doctor

#psa #breast health #breast cancer

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Eartha Kitt speaking truth to power at a 1968 luncheon at the White House hosted by Lady Bird Johnson which resulted in Kitt being blacklisted in the US for nearly a decade.

On January 18th, 1968, Eartha Kitt stood in a room full of white women at The Women Doers Luncheon, GOT IN LADYBIRD JOHNSON’S FACE, and told her that the government was sending the best of the youth off to be shot and killed and, in not so many words, that THAT was the reason the youth were rebelling. She ALSO stopped President Johnson after he made a statement claiming that mothers should be responsible for stopping their kids from becoming criminals and asked about “the parents who have to go to work, for instance, who can’t spend time with their children as they should”. It was brushed off by LBJ who only mentioned the funding for day care centers put in place by the recently passed Social Security bill, and then more or less said that the women at that luncheon should figure it out for themselves.She was blacklisted, but she defended every word she said that day. 

#warrior women #eartha kitt #america in the 60s #animated gif #truth to power

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I’ve never been so taken out by a response

#warrior women #karens for hire #american culture

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One thing that's interesting to me about Kira Nerys is that religiously, I think she's rather orthodox/conservative, and I like that about her!

Points of evidence: she admits that early on with her associations with Vedek Bareil that she staunchly disagreed with him on many of his interpretations of the words of the Prophets. Vedek Bareil is presented as being more liberal and progressive in his views, so we can conclude from this that Kira may be more on the orthodox end of the spectrum compared to Bareil.

She doesn't disagree with Vedek Winn about the teaching of the Bajoran children and the wormhole, and even suggests that perhaps the Bajoran children would be better served in a separate school. When several Bajoran officers don't show up in protest of the school, Kira defends them. She and Sisko actually have a rather heated argument about it.

None of Kira's later disagreements with Winn are about Winn's religious views, but rather her bloodthirsty political ambitions. I think, were Winn not so power hungry and willing to twist the Bajoran faith to serve her personal goals, she and Kira probably would've gotten along rather well.

And there is of course the episode where all the Bajorans are expected to go back to their "D'jarras" - to return to a caste-based system. Kira goes along with it, even though she admits she's terrible at art. I imagine there were likely other Bajorans who refused. Kira isn't happy about it either, but I found her willingness to go along with it interesting.

Kira is overall very observant of Bajoran faith rituals. All Bajorans are shown as being very faithful in the show, but Kira very strongly leans on her faith as a point of both pride and strength.

#warrior women #kira nerys #star trek #ds9 #character appreciation

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dykes read Fucking Trans Women challenge

#warrior women #sex education #mira bellwether #transbian #transfem

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Still bored. Still curious.

#warrior women #women in television #women in science fiction #poll

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I unironically think that people are so invested in Barbara as Batgirl vs. Oracle because they haven't bothered to read any of Babs' stories as Oracle nor have they actually read Cass or Steph's Batgirl runs. They're basing their opinions purely off of adaptations and vibes

#warrior women #barbara gordon #oracle #batfam #character appreciation #analysis

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For all that she's a supporting character, Wonder Woman is amazing in Kill The Justice League

She's the only member of the League not turned perma-evil by Brainiac, a long over-due correction of what Morrison did to her in Final Crisis. And while of course she jobs to Clark because of plot, her final defeat at least has the feel of the epic struggle Knightfall put Batman through before Bane broke him.

Not a fan of their choice to go down making her just an advanced form of golem, though.

A reminder that this image exists:

Any time I find myself fed up with the insufferability of the Batgod take on Bruce, such as him somehow being the most dangerous person in the world, I just need to remind myself that this is a thing that exists.

#warrior women #wonder woman #kill the justice league #character appreciation

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Xena doing solidarity right. 

Here She Comes…Miss Amphipolis.

#warrior women #xena warrior princess #lucy lawless #here she comes... miss amphipolis #karen dior #queer history

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A reminder that this image exists:

Any time I find myself fed up with the insufferability of the Batgod take on Bruce, such as him somehow being the most dangerous person in the world, I just need to remind myself that this is a thing that exists.

#warrior women #wonder woman #the hiketeia #diana of themyscira #fuck the batgod in a bad bad way

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In honor of 2023 being the 40th anniversary of Tamora Pierce’s Song of the Lioness quartet, these are the beloved and much-read paperbacks I bought with my allowance money in 1992, when I was 13.

#warrior women #tamora pierce #song of the lioness #books #alanna the lioness

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SEVEN OF NINE (Star Trek: VOY) ➢ "I would defy people to find a more beautifully developed character than Seven of Nine." - Jeri Ryan

@startrekwintergiftexchange — my gift for @japhan2024

credit: x + x + x + x

#warrior women #character appreciation #seven of nine #animated gif #star trek #voyager

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Oh cool! The guy who insisted on deadnaming Jennell Jaquays in his very famous article about her wildly influential dungeon design techniques, for years after both her public coming out and his having been informed, has decided, while she was on her deathbed, to rename the technique discussed in the article after himself, replacing the text of the original article and any of his own references to it online. He presumably discusses the technique in the book of dungeonmaster advice he's just published because his article on her technique was a foundational work in the blog that got him the book deal though who knows if there's any reference to Jaquays there given his apparent need to claim all credit.

Jennell was one of the most influential and foundational designers in the ttrpg hobby and her visibility as a trans woman has been incredibly important to so many of us in the space. Losing her has been a tragic loss for our community and now to have her name spat on like this just as we've lost her is horrific. Grief and Rage.

Nonlinear dungeon design is Jaquaysian or Jaquaysed or at most distant, Thracian. Making a dungeon more non-linear is Jaquaysing it. Let's agree that Xandering is just being an unbearably spineless white man, given the Buffy context and this one.

#warrior women #trans history #jennell jaquays #dungeons and dragons #dungeon design #signal boost

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#warrior women #world war 1 #female soldiers #milunka savi cmg #mulan #serbian women #Youtube