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trascapades · 5 years

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✊🏿👏🏿🏆❤ #ArtIsAWeapon Thank you @ciciadams /@people for the coverage about this year's @breakthroughtv #ActivistImpact award winners! I am honored to work with the @officialmuterkelly co-founders @suiteladyoro @kenyette_tish, and to know these other brilliant and powerful Black women activists @afrolez @afroboricua3, @kalimahthelocmama and @_queenleesh! Thank you @taranajaneen for your deep love and leadership! Read the full story: https://people.com/human-interest/me-too-movement-heroes-black-women-breakthrough ____________________ 📷 1: From left: Kalimah Johnson, Kenyette Barnes, Oronike Odeleye and Moi; 📷 2: From left: Kenyette Barnes, Sohini Bhattacharya, Aishah Shahida Simmons, Oronike Odeleye, Kalimah Johnson, Luz Marquez Benbow, Aleesha Barlow, Tynesha McHarris, and Darnell Moore [@mooredarnell] __________________ Reposted from @afrolez - Thank you, @ciciadams_ , for your wonderful @people magazine. Thank you, again and again, @breakthroughtv , (@mooredarnell and Sohini Bhattacharya) for honoring my sister-comrades in the struggle @afroboricua3, @kalimahthelocmama, @_queenleesh, @suiteladyoro, @kenyette_tish, and me with the 2019 Activist Impact Award. * * * “None of this work happens in a vacuum, it doesn’t happen by ourselves,” Aishah Shahidah Simmons, a filmmaker, writer and educator, tells PEOPLE. “ * To recognize us collectively was just very powerful for me and important because we do this work collectively,” said Simmons, who directed and produced the award-winning NO! The Rape Documentary and recently launched #LoveWITHAccountability, a project focused on addressing child sex abuse. * * “We’re in this moment because of a momentum of work by so many,” she added. “It’s powerful to be honored.” * #BreakthroughInspiration #MuteRKelly #MeToo #EndSexAbuse #EndSexualViolence #EndChildSexAbuse #EndRapeCulture #TellSomebody #IAmNegra #SASHACenter #BlackWomenLeaders #BlackWomenActivists #AfroLatinxActivists #BelieveBlackWomen #TraScapades #ImInPeopleMagazineYall #ArtIsAWeapon (at The Pierre, A Taj Hotel, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxxtGT6hX1Z/?igshid=8o1ayc86u13b

#artisaweapon #activistimpact #lovewithaccountability #breakthroughinspiration #muterkelly #metoo #endsexabuse #endsexualviolence #endchildsexabuse #endrapeculture #tellsomebody #iamnegra #sashacenter #blackwomenleaders #blackwomenactivists #afrolatinxactivists #believeblackwomen #trascapades #iminpeoplemagazineyall

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joannmathews · 3 years

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Women and Adversity: Clara Brown, Philanthropist

Clara Brown, Philanthropist Women and Adversity: Clara Brown, Philanthropist First African American Woman in Denver For my blogs in May, I’m taking some of the women I featured in my ebook, Women and Adversity, Honoring 23 Notable Mothers. Most people never heard of some of them, and I think Clara Brown is one of them. Some accounts list Clara Brown’s birth year as 1800, others 1803, but all…

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#BeginningWriters #blackwomen #BlackWomenActivists #BlackWomenInHistory #BlogsForWriters #DenverHistory #Philanthropists #WomenAndAdversity

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myurbanvibez · 4 years

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Celebrating Women’s History Month #womenofpower #blackwomen #latina #latinwomen #africanamericaneomen #hispanicwomen #blackwomenactivists #blackshero #blacksheroes #blacksherosmatter #latinaactivist https://www.instagram.com/p/B9prgxFHsHQ/?igshid=1gt0br7vmvbyn

#womenofpower #blackwomen #latina #latinwomen #africanamericaneomen #hispanicwomen #blackwomenactivists #blackshero #blacksheroes #blacksherosmatter #latinaactivist

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joannmathews · 3 years

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Women and Adversity: Ida B. Wells, Civil Rights Activist, Journalist

Ida B. WellsActivist, Journalist(voices.uchicago.edu) Women and Adversity: Ida B. Wells Civil Rights Activist, Journalist Ida B. Wells died of kidney disease 90 years ago today on March 25, 1931 in Chicago. As I wrote in my ebook Women and Adversity: Honoring 23 Black Women, I grew up hearing the name Ida B. Wells. A housing project in Chicago was named after this Black writer and activist, but I…

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#BeginningWriters #blackwomen #BlackWomenActivists #BlackWomenJournalists #BlogsForWriters #CivilRightsActivist #FindYourWritingNiche #IdaB.Wells #Journalists #WomenAndAdversity #WomenWriters

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myurbanvibez · 4 years

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Celebrating Women’s History Month #womenofpower #blackwomen #latina #latinwomen #africanamericaneomen #hispanicwomen #blackwomenactivists #blackshero #blacksheroes #blacksherosmatter #latinaactivist https://www.instagram.com/p/B9prPYGn0hq/?igshid=1t6uwtiuad3tm

#womenofpower #blackwomen #latina #latinwomen #africanamericaneomen #hispanicwomen #blackwomenactivists #blackshero #blacksheroes #blacksherosmatter #latinaactivist

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trascapades · 4 years

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💜👏🏿🎨#ArtIsAWeapon #WomensHistoryMonth #NobelPeacePrize-winning #activist #WangariMaathai was named by @time as #WomanOfTheYear 2001 in its special "100 Women of the Year" project, released today. This gorgous #coverart was created by the incredible #artist @bisabutler! **there is no paint on this artwork** • VIA www.Time.com Wangari Maathai was the first woman in Central and East Africa to earn a Ph.D., but she learned the ways of the world by planting trees. In 1977, she founded the Green Belt Movement to teach peasant women livelihoods while reforesting urban areas. That wholesome pursuit was seen as a threat by Kenya’s land-grabbing politicians, and in 2001, Maathai spent International Women’s Day in jail, where she often found herself. But having found organic links between environmentalism, poverty reduction and democratic rights, she a year later won a Parliament seat with 98% of the vote. The Nobel Peace Prize followed in 2004. By the time of her death in 2011, Maathai had taken on palm-oil plantations in Southeast Asia, and her movement, with branches in 30 countries, had planted 50 million trees. — ✍🏿Karl Vick • Reposted from @bisabutler TIME! I was commissioned by @time Magazine to create a portrait of a woman who changed the world, the first African woman to win the #nobelpeaceprize, Wangari Maathai! This was a part of the 100 Women of the year special double issue! Thank you @time @johnnyjbutler_ @claireolivergallery , D.W. Pine, @keithgrossman , Ellen Weisbord and let me not forget to thank God 🙏🏾 **link in my bio!** issues on the newsstand Tuesday 3/10 **there is no paint on this artwork ** #WangariMaathai #AfricanWomen #BlackWomenActivists #AfricanWomenLeaders #BlackArt #BlackArtists #bisabutler #timemagazine #textileart #contemporaryart #fiberart #quilt #TraScapades #ArtIsAWeapon #BlackGirlArtGeeks🤓 https://www.instagram.com/p/B9XjNCMAG_W/?igshid=1pdvv19ey8q55

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trascapades · 5 years

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💔✊🏿🇧🇷#ArtIsAWeapon #MariellePresente #Brazillian #HumanRights #LGBTQ #Activist #MarielleFranco, #art by @fepparodrigues. Marielle Franco, a powerful voice who spoke out against police brutality and the plight of blacks and the poor in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, was assassinated in March 2018. Two ex-police officers have been arrested for her murder. ________________ Via @aljazeeraenglish (14 Mar 2019): A year after Marielle Franco's murder, violence still haunts Rio. Rights groups say there were record number of police killings and racial violence in the Brazilian city in 2018. Sao Paulo, Brazil - It took nearly a year for Brazilian police to make an arrest in the murder of black activist and Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle Franco. Police said on Tuesday they had arrested two former police officers over the murders of Franco and her driver, Anderson Gomes. According to investigators, the two former officers drove up beside the vehicle where Franco, Gomes and the councilwoman's press secretary were waiting on March 14, 2018, and shot Franco and Gomes dead. Franco, who was a #lesbian, regularly denounced police brutality, especially in the favelas where she was raised. She also called for the rights of women and the LGBT community. In announcing the arrests, prosecutors agreed with the family's suspicions that Franco's murder was politically motivated. It is undisputed that Franco was killed "because of the political causes that she defended", the prosecutor's office said in its report. The activist's murder prompted massive nationwide protests against police violence and racism and sparked a national Black Lives Matter movement. Read full story: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/03/year-marielle-franco-murder-violence-haunts-rio-190313013959993.html #BlackLivesMatter #riodejaneiro #WomensRights #WomensHistoryMonth #BlackWomenActivists #TraScapades https://www.instagram.com/p/BvMSxNwFDJt/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1n6bv5ypmecf4

#artisaweapon #mariellepresente #brazillian #humanrights #lgbtq #activist #mariellefranco #art #lesbian #blacklivesmatter #riodejaneiro #womensrights #womenshistorymonth #blackwomenactivists #trascapades

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trascapades · 5 years

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👏🏿✊🏿❤ #TheGrio #BLKGenius Shout out to these brilliant, badass, brave, beautiful Black women @suiteladyoro & @kenyette_tish - the cofounders of @officialmuterkelly - and to @thegrio's @love_is_dope for being massively supportive of this movement. I'm honored to know and work with you, ladies, and I really love this #BLKGenius series... Reposted from @thegrio #BLKGenius - Day 18 In the face of overwhelming vitriol from his fans, #MuteRKelly founders @suiteladyoro and @Kenyette_tish created the campaign to scrub #RKelly 's music from airwaves, streaming platforms and concert stages for good. Tired of seeing the singer rack up awards, hefty checks, and sold-out tours even after his alleged abuse of underage girls was public knowledge, the two women took action. For fighting for the protection of Black women and girls, we salute ✊🏾 these two BLK Geniuses. Click our 🔗 In Bio for more on our honoreees.#SurvivingRKelly #BelieveBlackWomen #BlackWomenActivists #BlackWomenLead #Queens #EndSexualAbuse #EndSexTrafficking #TraScapades #ArtIsAWeapon https://www.instagram.com/p/BuFSUArFMdg/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=15lxn8xkmx11

#thegrio #blkgenius #muterkelly #rkelly #survivingrkelly #believeblackwomen #blackwomenactivists #blackwomenlead #queens #endsexualabuse #endsextrafficking #trascapades #artisaweapon

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trascapades · 3 years

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⚖🎥 #ArtIsAWeapon #WomensHistoryMonth Honoring and speaking the name of #AmeliaBoyntonRobinson - a matriarch of the civil rights movement - on the 56th anniversary of #BloodySunday. I vote in every election with a sense of duty, humility and gratitude for her sacrifice and the work of countless other women and men who gave their lives for this sacred right. The fight continues: bills have been introduced in state legislatures across the country to suppress voting, while the U.S. Congress has yet to restore the Voting Rights Act of 1965. We must support @StaceyAbrams @fairfightaction @mslatoshabrown @blackvotersmtr and others who are working to educate and register voters and #endvotersuppression.

Reposted from @thecrisismag #otd On March 7, 1965, state and local police used billy clubs, whips, and tear gas to attack hundreds of civil rights protesters beginning a march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.

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Marchers and civil rights activists like Amelia Boynton Robinson were protesting the denial of voting rights to African Americans as well as the murder of 26-year-old activist Jimmie Lee Jackson, who had been fatally shot in the stomach by police during a peaceful protest just days before.

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The marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge and found themselves facing a line of state and county officers poised to attack. @derricknaacp @naacp @nmaahc

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2015 @latimes video reposted from @allianceforbmoc It was on this day, March 7, 1965 that civil rights leaders, community organizers, and allies gathered to protest the killing of Deacon Jimmy Lee Jackson, a civil rights organizer, by a state trooper. They were also demanding representation through voting rights for Black communities in the South, and they were met with violence from both law enforcement and #whitesupremacists, which became known as #BloodySunday.

We thank and honor our #ancestors that have passed on...

#BlackWomensHistory #naacp #sncc #BlackWomenActivists #votingrights #EdmundPettusBridge #blackhistory #johnlewis #civilrights #activism

#TraScapades #StaceyAbrams

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