#political activism
“Hope is essential, but it’s not enough.”
-Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ)
Day 25 of Black History Month and I’m honoring the incredible Stacey Abrams. She is an American politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and author who served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017, serving as minority leader from 2011 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Abrams founded Fair Fight Action, an organization to address voter suppression, in 2018. Her efforts have been widely credited with boosting voter turnout in Georgia, including in the 2020 presidential election, where Joe Biden won the state, and in Georgia’s 2020–21 U.S. Senate election and special election, which gave Democrats control over the Senate. In 2021, Abrams was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts in the 2020 election
“After World War I (1914-1918), sexual emancipation swept across France, despite the fact that French women were denied the right to vote and saw the imposition, in 1920, of a law curbing abortion and the distribution of birth-control information. The success of Victor Margueritte’s La Garçonne (The Bachelor Girl [1922]), which sold 300,000 copies within a year, reveals how greatly attitudes had changed in regard to women’s sexual freedom. Indeed, this novel portrayed the lesbian as the true liberated woman for the first time, linking economic independence, sexual liberty, and equality with men. Margueritte lost his membership in the Legion of Honor, while feminists, horrified by the "debauchery” and “vice” in his work, refused to support him. Thus, despite the relaxing of moral restrictions after the war, the loss of practically an entire male generation caused the government of the Third Republic, for obvious reasons, to reinforce its control over women and procreation. Women, including feminists, did not protest against the restrictions imposed on them. The accepted social norms allowed married women to engage in limited political activism; single women joined trade unions; and lesbians and liberated heterosexuals enjoyed access to cultural circles. Lesbians continued to have a real visibility within the cultural realm, as international artists inscribed lesbianism within the avant-garde.“-Excerpt from Encyclopedia of Lesbian Histories and Cultures by Bonnie Zimmerman
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Politics and Fashion
Lets take the 70′s , This time period was alive with political activism , Feminism. environmentalism, and fights for Racial Justice. Sound Familiar? Fashion was Democratized by the Fashion Designers of the socialites Halston and Yves Saint Laurent and Couture was no longer just for the elites it was accessible to every one.
Ettiquette was broken and replaced with Do you (Tommy) .. ONE way to express oneself was through Color.
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#didisayyes A poster in response to the recent rape of a CalArts Student who was asked by school administrators victim-blaming questions such as “how short was your dress?”
Print, paste, pass along! And Know Your Nine!
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