#deborah and yael

[eretzyisrael]

The first known portrayal of biblical heroines Deborah and Yael has been uncovered in a mosaic panel that decorated an ancient synagogue in northern Israel.

A team of archeologists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found the panel in the southwest section of the synagogue in Huqoq, dating to the late fourth century or early fifth century CE, the school announced Tuesday.

Excavations in the synagogue — located in Huqoq, north of Tiberias in the Galilee — have been ongoing since it was first discovered in 2011 by a team led by Professor Jodi Magness of UNC-Chapel Hill, albeit with disruptions due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The artwork unearthed this year relates an episode from the Book of Judges, when the Israelites were oppressed for 20 years by Jabin, the king of Canaan. Under the leadership of the prophetess Deborah and military commander Barak, the Israelite forces ultimately trumped the Canaanite army, headed by general Sisera. After the battle, the general fled to the tent of a woman named Yael, who drove a long stake through his temple.

In the uppermost part of the mosaic, Deborah is depicted underneath a palm tree, looking at a shield-wielding Barak. Its middle scene, only a limited portion of which is preserved, appears to portray a seated Sisera. The third shows a fallen and bleeding Sisera, as Yael hammers his temple with a stake.

The mosaic joins multiple others that have been found in the Huqoq synagogue over the past decade. The nearly 1,600-year-old artwork includes Hebrew inscriptions and intricate biblical scenes, such as an episode from the Book of Judges showing Samson exacting revenge on the Philistines, and another portraying him with the gate of Gaza. Other mosaics have depicted Noah’s Ark, the parting of the Red Sea, and the story of Jonah and the whale.

#mosaic #deborah and yael #hugog #tiberias #galilee

[torais-life]

#archeology #jumblr #torah #tanakh #deborah and yael #mosaic #art #antique art #am israel #Huqoq #book of judges #sinagoga #synagogue

[jewishcissiekj]

I like and reblogged ONE Jewish-related post and suddenly the whole Jewish side of Tumblr is after me?????? ("after me" including showing up on my for you page here and scaring the shit out of me)

I don't even like Judaism I just like using my ethnicity and background as a fun username and also been raised and lived Jewishly for the past number of years I've lived what the hell bro

I know for a fact my brother has been a part of this community but nooo don't take me I'm trying soooo hard to be resentful toward this religion (religion-specific, not the people), don't make me like more stuff about it now

#jewish #jewish people #judaism #jewish tumblr #what the FUCK is Tanakh sexyman #judaism makes me feel mostly negative shit #but jews can be some of the best people on earth #and i literally say shma israel when I get scared/use it as an exclamation phrase #but almost anything jewish related on the internet is a jumpscare for me #anyway can anyone direct me to the tanakh sexywoman poll I would like to vote for yael or dvora/deborah I guess #no reason at all for the first one it's not like I'm biased #the name yael means nothing to me btw #it would tho if smth crazy like my parents naming me yael would've happened lol #however jewish dc comics people hiiiiii let's talk #i love ya'll

[burnbrighterthanever]

Things I Can't Fucking Stand:

Both Reddit atheists and conservative Christians who go on about how "Biblical women" are delicate, weak homemakers who always defer to men.

I'm sorry, did you actually read the Tanakh?

You're going to look at Judith and Yael murdering enemy generals and say that women don't belong in war?

You're going to look at Deborah the Judge and Esther who saved the entire Jewish people through sheer cunning and say that women should stay out of politics?

You're going to look at Miriam the prophetess and say that women aren't qualified to lead a community or interpret G-d's word?

You're going to look at Ruth and Naomi who followed each other until death and say that queer women don't belong in your community?

What in the Freshest Of Fucks Did You Read?

Because it sure wasn't the Hebrew Bible!

#jewish #stel speaks

[havenridgerp]

mwm and mwf?

Thank you for your question, Anon. While we would love any face you bring, here are just a few of our favorites:

Most wanted females: Pinar Deniz, Greta Onieogou, Hilary Duff, Chase Sui Wonders, Samantha Logan, Phoebe Tonkin, Elizabeth Lail, Alexandra Shipp, Tessa Thompson, Jessica Chastain, Aja Naomi King, Jennifer Garner, Madison Iseman, Brianne Tju, Ashley Moore, Brianne Howey, Riley Keough, Suki Waterhouse, Kiana Madeira, Adria Arjona, Aiysha Hart, Alicia Vikander, Annie Murphy, Camilla Luddington, Christina Ochoa, Chyler Leigh, Cote De Pablo, Daisy Ridley, Danai Gurira, Deborah Ann Woll, Dichen Lachman, Emma Mackey, Famke Janssen, Gemma Chan, Gina Torres, Han So Hee, Inbar Lavi, Jaina Lee Ortiz, Jamie Chung, Jessica Henwick, Kat Graham, Kate Siegel, Kimiko Glenn, Lauren Ridloff, Lesley-Ann Brandt, Lily Tomlin, Lisa Ann Walter, Mandy Moore, Marie Avgeropoulous, Meagan Tandy, Melissa McCarthy, Melissa O'Neil, Melissa Roxburgh, Ming Na Wen, Natasha Lyonne, Parveen Kaur, Sonequa Martin-Green, Tati Gabrielle, Victoria Pedretti, Viola Davis, Yael Grobglas, Zendaya

Most wanted males: Daniel Ezra, Luke Grimes, Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfield, JD Pardo, Chris Evans, Jon Bernthal, Raymond Ablack, Rafael Silva, Henry Golding, Sam Claflin, Jacob Elordi, LaRoyce Hawkins, Ryan Gosling, Alex Meraz, Alfonso Herrera, Andrew Garfield, Andrew Lincoln, Avan Jogia, Boyd Holbrook, Casey Deidrick, Dan Stevens, Savid Castaneda, David Harbour, Dev Patel, Diego Luna, Eli Goree, Gabriel Luna, Giacomo Gianniotti, Hale Appleman, Hamish Linklater, Idris Elba, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, John Krasinski, Justin H Min, Kieran Culkin, Lewis Tan, Marwan Kenzari, Mena Massoud, Michiel Huisman, Milo Ventimiglia, Nick Sagar, Nyle DiMarco, Oscar Isaac, Osric Chau, Philemon Chambers, Rahul Kohli, Rege-Jean Page, Ricky Whittle, Riz Ahmed, Ronen Rubinstein, Sean Berdy, Sean Teale, Sinqua Walls, Steven Yuen, Tom Holland

Most wanted trans/nonbinary/gender fluid: Alex Blue Davis, Amandla Stenberg, Asia Kate Dillon, Chella Man, Elliot Fletcher, Elliot Page, Emma D'Arcy, Jamie Clayton, Laith Ashley, Liv Hewson, Nicole Maines, Quintessa Swindell, Sara Ramirez, Zión Moreno

#ask: answered #admin: sj #anon: answered #town rp #new rp #literate rp #mature rp

[mybookof-you]

Solomon de Bray, Yael, Deborah, and Barak

[alsjeblieft-zeg]

117 of 2022

Hebrew Names

~bonesofivory

Bold if you like the name. They aren't all in ABC order & I'm too lazy to make that way, sorry.

Male Avi Avraham Aidan Alon Amichai Ami Amiel Amitai Amir Amit Ariel Amnon Aryeh Dov Dror Eitan Even Eyal Eli Eliyahu Ezra Gavriel/Gabriel Gad Gidon/Gideon Gal Gil Gilad Itai Itamar Ilan Menachem Nachum Nissim Nitzan Noam Omri Oren Oz Raphael Roi Ron Shai Shalom Shachar Tal Tomer Tzvi Yakir Yaron Yigal Yuval Ziv Zohar

Female Ariella Avigail/Abigail Avital Adi Adina Amit Atara Aviva Ayala Ayelet Batsheva Devoroah/Deborah/Debra Dena/Dina Dafna Dalia Daniella Dana Elisheva Eliana Gavriella/Gabriella Gal Gefen Hannah Hadar Hadas Hila Ilana Irit Kalanit Kinneret Liora Lior Liat Liraz Liron Michal Miriam Maayan Orit Orlie Noa Naama Nava Neta Nirit Nitzan Noga Nurit Ofira Ora Orli Penina Raz Reut Rina Shalva Shira Shiran Shirli Shoshana // as Susanna for sure Tal Tamar Vered Varda Yael Yehudit/Judith Yaffa Yafit Yasmin/Jasmine Yedida Yona Yonina Ziva Zohar

#survey #themed survey

[thejewishlink]

Earliest depictions of biblical Deborah, Yael unearthed in ancient synagogue

Earliest depictions of biblical Deborah, Yael unearthed in ancient synagogue

Mosaic in Lower Galilee depicts Book of Judges episode in which the two women defeat Canaanite general Sisera.  By World Israel News Staff A team of archeologists have unearthed nearly 1,600-year-old mosaics in an ancient Jewish synagogue at Huqoq in Israel’s Lower Galilee, in the first known depictions of the biblical heroines Deborah and Yael as described in the book of Judges. The team of…

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#Archeology Finds #Book of Judges #Israel Lower Galilee #Jewish synagogue at Huqoq #Jodi Magness

[magnetothemagnificent]

God remembering how much I love the story of Devorah.

So before there were kings in Judea there were a series of prophets that would lead would lead the nation (they weren't dynastic, they would just be appointed by the people).

So you have Devorah, and she was well known as a prophet and wise woman, and so she was appointed by the Jewish people as their leader. She'd conduct her court at the top of the hill underneath a large willow tree.

Now, the Jews at the time were under constant rule and harassment by the Canaanite king Yavin and his army, led by general Sisrah. The Jews get tired of being oppressed and decide to go to war and defend themselves, and they gathered an army. The Jewish army was led by Barak.

But Barak comes to Devorah and says that his soldiers won't go to war unless she herself comes and leads them. Devorah tells him that they don't need her, but she comes anyway, and tells him "fine. Now Sisrah's defeat will be more impactful because he will be defeated by a woman."

So Devorah leads the Jews into battle and they defeat Sisrah's army. Sisrah flees and comes upon the home of Yael while the Jewish army is in hot pursuit.

He demands that Yael hide him, and so she complies. She gives him food and drink, and Sisrah falls asleep. While Sisrah is asleep, Yael nails a tent-peg through his temples and kills him.

Barak arrives at Yael's home looking for Sisrah, and lo and behold she showed him Sisrah's dead body. Sisrah had indeed been defeated by a woman- and not just one woman, but two.

The Jew rejoice and Devorah leads them in song.

Anyway I think this is one of the most badass moment in Tanakh and I've always loved Devorah and Yael.

#tanakh #deborah the prophet #deborah hanevia #yael #yael eshet chever hakeini #judaism #jewish history

[be-ca-lm]

“Go, boast before your father in hell and tell him that you have fallen into the hands of a woman.” 

#this was legit in my children's bible #wtf #but also #awesome #go women #tell your father in hell #jael #yael #ya'el #sisera #jabin #sesera #deborah #barak

[artbyeloquent]

For the name OC ask game, can u do #1 for all the main characters 🕺

i need you to know i would die for you (half-serious, affectionate)

how did you come up with their name?

RIMON : It means "pomegranate" in Hebrew (it's Rimaan in Arabic, too).

“Jewish tradition teaches that the pomegranate is a symbol of righteousness, knowledge, and wisdom because it is said to have 613 seeds, each representing one of the 613 mitzvot (commandments) of the Torah,” Damien Stone writes in Pomegranate: A Global History

Huge symbolism in Judaism, with some even saying that it's the real forbidden fruit instead of an apple. For me personally, it's all over my first tallis, and it's a symbol I hold close to my heart when I think about my faith. I thought it was perfect for a nonbinary protagonist.

Rimon still doesn't have a surname because Jewish surnames are incredibly indicative of their origin, ESPECIALLY Russian ones because of Russian border changes over time, so I keep procrastinating because I can't decide what exact region their family emigrated from.

DEVORAH "DEV" HADDAD : I just hate the fact that Devorah is anglicized to Deborah/Debbie. I'm sorry if you're reading this and like the name. I immediately wanted to rep the original. Dev's Mizrahi, and I really liked "blacksmith" since she's such an iron-fisted character.

FAIZA ABDELRAHMAN : "Faiza" means successful, and Faiza has her shit together the most of any of the characters, so I couldn't help it. Abdelrahman means "servant of the Merciful," and constitutes one of my favorite Muslim surnames. Faiza is a love letter to the amazing Muslim women that have graced my life in past and present.

YAEL : Yael means "Nubian ibex" in Hebrew and has been disputably been used in a unisex fashion. I thought it was a fitting mental image for a jittery, type A second-in-command who has a lot of potential but is also rather flighty. I also use it as a psuedonym sometimes so I'm partial to its sound.

ARIEL : I have met a lovely number of Ariels of all genders, and I love that it means "lion of G-d." I thought it was a really good image for a lazy, jovial trans man who doesn't do much of the work at his job but is still a ferocious enemy if you challenge his "pride."

ZOHAR : Suggested by @v-ahavta. T'wasn't until I told my partner that I was reminded the Zohar is also a very important (arguable one of the most famous) piece of Kabbalah literature in Judaism. What a coinkidink.

#thank you so much<3 #htdo oc dev

[xmanicpanicx]

Mammoth List of Feminist/Girl Power Books (200 + Books)

Lists of Real, Amazing Women Throughout History

Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World by Ann Shen

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2 by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo

Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Pénélope Bagieu, Montana Kane (Translator)

Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics by Jason Porath

Tough Mothers: Amazing Stories of History’s Mightiest Matriarchs by Jason Porath

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky

Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World by Mackenzi Lee

Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History by Sam Maggs

The Little Book of Feminist Saints by Julia Pierpont

Rad Women Worldwide: Artists and Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and Other Revolutionaries Who Shaped History by Kate Schatz

Warrior Women: 3000 Years of Courage and Heroism by Robin Cross & Rosalind Miles

Women Who Dared: 52 Stories of Fearless Daredevils, Adventurers, and Rebels by Linda Skeers & Livi Gosling 

100 Nasty Women of History by Hannah Jewell

The Warrior Queens by Antonia Fraser

Sea Queens: Women Pirates Around the World by Jane Yolen

The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience by Hillary Rodham Clinton & Chelsea Clinton 

Fight Like a Girl: 50 Feminists Who Changed the World by Laura Barcella

Samurai Women 1184–1877 by Stephen Turnbull

A Black Woman Did That by Malaika Adero

Tales from Behind the Window by Edanur Kuntman

Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights by Mikki Kendall

Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100 by Max Dashu

Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency by Bea Koch

Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History by Blair Imani

Individual and Group Portraits of Real, Amazing Women Throughout History

Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights: From the Vote to the Equal Rights Amendment by Deborah Kops

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron De Hart

The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott

I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb

Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA by Amaryllis Fox

Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir by Cherríe L. Moraga

The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants: The Female Gang That Terrorised London by Brian McDonald

Women Against the Raj: The Rani of Jhansi Regiment by Joyce Chapman Lebra

Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus

The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt

The Women of WWII (Non-Fiction)

Women Heroes of World War II: 26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue by Kathryn J. Atwood

Skyward: The Story of Female Pilots in WWII by Sally Deng

The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II by Katherine Sharp Landdeck

The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear (Translation), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translation)

Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation by Anne Sebba

To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African-American Wacs Stationed Overseas During World War II by Brenda L. Moore

Standing Up Against Hate: How Black Women in the Army Helped Change the Course of WWII by Mary Cronk Farrell

Sisters and Spies: The True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne by Susan Ottaway

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell

The White Mouse by Nancy Wake

Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II by Liza Mundy

Tomorrow to be Brave: A Memoir of the Only Woman Ever to Serve in the French Foreign Legion by Susan Travers & Wendy Holden

Pure Grit: How WWII Nurses in the Pacific Survived Combat and Prison Camp by Mary Cronk Farrell

Sisterhood of Spies by Elizabeth P. McIntosh

Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan by Shrabani Basu

Women in the Holocaust by Dalia Ofer

The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos by Judy Batalion

Night Witches: The Untold Story of Soviet Women in Combat by Bruce Myles

The Soviet Night Witches: Brave Women Bomber Pilots of World War II by Pamela Jain Dell

A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II by Elizabeth Wein

A Dance with Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II by Anne Noggle

Avenging Angels: The Young Women of the Soviet Union's WWII Sniper Corps by Lyuba Vinogradova

The Women of WWII (Fiction)

Among the Red Stars by Gwen C. Katz

Night Witches by Kathryn Lasky

Night Witches by Mirren Hogan

Night Witch by S.J. McCormack

Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith

Daughters of the Night Sky by Aimie K. Runyan

The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff

Code Name Verity series by Elizabeth Wein

Front Lines trilogy by Michael Grant

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

All-Girl Teams (Fiction)

The Seafire trilogy by Natalie C. Parker

Elysium Girls by Kate Pentecost

The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis

The Effigies trilogy by Sarah Raughley

Guardians of the Dawn series by S. Jae-Jones

Wolf-Light by Yaba Badoe

Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson

Burned and Buried by Nino Cipri

This Is What It Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow

The Wild Ones: A Broken Anthem for a Girl Nation by Nafiza Azad

We Rule the Night by Claire Eliza Bartlett

Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry

The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman

Bad Girls Never Say Die by Jennifer Mathieu

The Secret Life of Prince Charming by Deb Caletti

Kamikaze Girls by Novala Takemoto, Akemi Wegmüller (Translator)

The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See

The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry

The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke

Sisters in Sanity by Gayle Forman

The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

The Lost Girls by Sonia Hartl

Hell's Belles series by Sarah MacLean

Jackdaws by Ken Follett

The Farmerettes by Gisela Tobien Sherman

A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions by Sheena Boekweg

Feminist Retellings

Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly

Poisoned by Jennifer Donnelly

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust

The Girl Who Fell Beneath The Sea by Axie Oh

Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue

Doomed by Laura Pohl

The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher

The Boneless Mercies by April Genevieve Tucholke

Seven Endless Forests by April Genevieve Tucholke

The Queens of Innis Lear by Tessa Gratton

A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston

Kate Crackernuts by Katharine M. Briggs

Legendborn series by Tracy Deonn

One for All by Lillie Lainoff

Feminist Dystopian and Horror Fiction

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand

Godshot by Chelsea Bieker

Women and Girls in Comedy 

Crying Laughing by Lance Rubin

Stand Up, Yumi Chung by Jessica Kim

This Will Be Funny Someday by Katie Henry

Unscripted by Nicole Kronzer

Pretty Funny for a Girl by Rebecca Elliot

Bossypants by Tina Fey

We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy by Yael Kohen

The Girl in the Show: Three Generations of Comedy, Culture, and Feminism by Anna Fields

Trans Women

Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock

Nemesis series by April Daniels

American Transgirl by Faith DaBrooke

Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout by Laura Jane Grace

A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett

Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom

Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt

George by Alex Gino

The Witch Boy series by Molly Ostertag

Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman by Laura Kate Dale

She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan

An Anthology of Fiction by Trans Women of Color by Ellyn Peña

Wandering Son by Takako Shimura

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Feminist Poetry

Women Are Some Kind of Magic trilogy by Amanda Lovelace

Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty by Nikita Gill

Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul by Nikita Gill

Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters by Nikita Gill

The Girl and the Goddess by Nikita Gill

A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland by DaMaris B. Hill

Feminist Philosophy and Facts

The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner

The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy by Gerda Lerner

Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice by Jack Holland

White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism by Bushra Rehman

Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks

Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World by Kelly Jensen

The Equality Illusion by Kat Banyard

White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind by Koa Beck

Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates

I Have the Right To by Chessy Prout & Jenn Abelson

Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World by Kumari Jayawardena

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

How to Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ

Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea Ritchie

Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins

But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies by Akasha Gloria Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott, Barbara Smith Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. Davis This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe L. Moraga, Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDinn

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

Difficult Women by Roxane Gay

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by by Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa

Power Shift: The Longest Revolution by Sally Armstrong

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Had It Coming: What's Fair in the Age of #MeToo? by Robyn Doolittle

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story that Helped Ignite a Movement by Jody Kantor & Megan Twohey

#Notyourprincess: Voices of Native American Women by Lisa Charleyboy

Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time by Tanya Lee Stone

Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power by Sady Doyle

Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement by Robin Morgan (Editor)

Girls Make Media by Mary Celeste Kearney

Rock She Wrote: Women Write about Rock, Pop, and Rap by Evelyn McDonnell (Editor)

You Play the Girl: And Other Vexing Stories That Tell Women Who They Are by Carina Chocano

Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco

The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Hollis Robbins (Editor)

Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World by Jessica Valenti and Jaclyn Friedman Bread Out of Stone: Recollections, Sex, Recognitions, Race, Dreaming, Politics by Dionne Brand

Other General Girl Power/Feminist Awesomeness

The Edge of Anything by Nora Shalaway Carpenter

Kat and Meg Conquer the World by Anna Priemaza

Talk Before Sleep by Elizabeth Berg

The Female of the Species by Mandy McGinnis

Pulp by Robin Talley

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr

That Summer by Sarah Dessen

Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen

Honey, Baby, Sweetheart by Deb Caletti

The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Daré

Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

American Girls by Alison Umminger

Don't Think Twice by Ruth Pennebaker

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women by Alice Walker

You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories by Alice Walker

Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo

Sula by Toni Morrison

Rose Sees Red by Cecil Castellucci

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu

Rules for Being a Girl by Candace Bushnell & Katie Cotugno

None of the Above by I.W. Gregorio

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Everything Must Go by Jenny Fran Davis

The House on Olive Street by Robyn Carr

Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman

Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde

Lady Luck's Map of Vegas by Barbara Samuel 

Fan the Fame by Anna Priemaza

Puddin' by Julie Murphy

A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti

Gravity Brings Me Down by Natale Ghent

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

The Summer of Impossibilities by Rachael Allen

The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Katie Alender

Don't Tell a Soul by Kirsten Miller

After the Ink Dries by Cassie Gustafson Girl, Unframed by Deb Caletti

We Are the Ashes, We Are the Fire by Joy McCullough 

Maybe He Just Likes You by Barbara Dee

Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Cure for Dreaming by Cat Winters

Dress Coded by Carrie Firestone

The Prettiest by Brigit Young

Don't Judge Me by Lisa Schroeder

The Roommate by Rosie Danan

Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir by Liz Prince

Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present by Lillian Faderman

All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister

Paper Girls comic series by Brian K. Vaughan

Heavy Vinyl comic series by Carly Usdin

Please feel free to reblog with more!

#book list #feminism #girl power

[satansfaery]

My Candy Love Birthdays:

January 8th: Charlotte, Rayan

February 16th: Nathaniel, Amber

March 6th: Kentin

March 11th: Li

April 19th: Dajan, Priya, Yael

April 26th: Eric

May 1st: Yeleen

May 14th: Peggy

May 16th: Dake

June 4th: Iris

June 7th: Armin, Alexy

July 1st: Violette

July 24th: Laeti/Lucy

August 12th: Castiel

September 1st: Jade

September 4th: Chani

September 7th: Carla/Capucine

September 30th: Melody

October 10th: Nina

October 16th: Rosalya

November 3rd: Deborah, Hyun

November 22nd: Lysander

November 25th: Leigh

December 17th: Kim

December 25th: Morgan

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[bible-hunger-games]

Tribute 55: Yael/Jael

Drove a tent peg through the skull of and killed Sisera, the general of King Jabin who was harshly oppressing the Israelites, and therefore Jabin's army

After Sisera's army was defeated, he fled to the tent of Heber (who was likely Yael's husband), but Yael welcomed Sisera into her own separate tent and covered him with a blanket

Sisera was then given milk by her after having asked for water, then asked her to watch over the tent and tell no one of his presence

While Sisera was sleeping, she took out a mallet and killed him

Sung about in the Song of Deborah

Jael

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[momowho34]

Ugh, of course people think the Bible is boring!! You’re not showing them the right parts!!! What about:

Kidnapped child tries his best to become a Babylonian bureaucrat and is put in every dangerous situation known to man in the process (ya boy Daniel)

Local man sneaks his way into the palace, stabs the king on the toilet, and then vanishes into oblivion (Ehud, Book of Judges)

Woman singlehandedly saves her people by spilling a drink on an evil guy and being awesome (Esther, my girl)

Madlad gets the occupying median army out of his home with a vision from god and a few carefully placed Molotov cocktails (no I’m not kidding, that’s basically what he does. Gideon, in the book of Judges)

Female prophet astounds local male population by helping them win a battle, with the assistance of a housewife who ever so kindly stabs the fuck out of the opposing armies general (Deborah and Yael, more from the book of Judges)

Prophet is fucking done with the feuding kings he has to babysit, cusses them out every other paragraph (Elijah, book of Kings)

Son of a sheep farmer decides royal life isn’t for him, runs off into the woods to form a band of outlaws like some Israelite Robin Hood. Same boy later becomes king of the Israelites anyway (king David the madlad, book of Samuel)

Persian Jew takes on the fixer upper project that is the entirety of Jerusalem and is fucking determined to rebuild the temple after the second exile (Nehemiah)

Abandoned bastard child who is also a pirate is miraculously chosen to be the next prophet of the lord, and doles out some cathartic vengeance along the way (Jephthah, seriously, judges is just a really good book go read it)

And you’ve probably already heard of these but:

Local introvert finally settles down... and is then chosen by god to lead the Israelites out of slavery. hates it for four books (Moses, Exodus)

The upside of being sold into slavery by your brothers is the friends you made along the way... aswell as money, a wife, a powerful political position, and some short-lived revenge followed by reconciliation (Joseph, Genesis)

Way more interesting then some old guy and his ark, y’know?

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[princessyv]

Deborah

In a disorderly, violent time, as Israel fought for land and survival, Deborah was called--and stepped forward--to aid her people.

Israel, crossing into Canaan, changes its role. It is a time of conquest, a time of war. The Israelites have become fighters, and the saviors of Israel‑-women as well as men‑-have to be aggressors. The times call for warriors, and two warrior women (Deborah and Yael) appear in the decisive defeat of the Canaanites. One, Deborah, initiates the battle, calling the troops to action and declaring the start of hostilities...

#Deborah The Judge #The Prophetess #book of judges #lapidot #the woman sitting under the palm tree