Inclusivity Thread!!! 💗💗

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HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH!! ✊🏾✊🏾

 

 

Ruth E. Carter is an American costume designer for film and television. She is best known for her collaborations with Spike Lee, John Singleton, and Ryan Coogler. During her film career, Carter has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, for her work on Lee's biographical film Malcolm X, Steven Spielberg's historical drama film Amistad, and won twice for Coogler's Marvel superhero films Black Panther and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever this made her the first African-American to win and be nominated for Best Costume Design. She was nominated for a fifth time for her work in Sinners, breaking the record for most-nominated Black woman in Oscar history.

Her other film credits include Do the Right Thing, What's Love Got to Do with It, Love & Basketball, Serenity, The Butler, Selma, Marshall, Dolemite Is My Name, Coming 2 America. She also received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Period Costumes for a Limited Series, for her work on the 2016 miniseries Roots. Carter is the recipient of the Career Achievement Award from the Costume Designers Guild Awards, in addition to receiving two competitive awards from the organization.

After becoming the most nominated Black woman in Oscars history, Ruth E. Carter has her younger self to thank

[Picklethewickle]

@lovely_xm07 This thread makes such a positive impact on my life. I hope you know what a hero you are.

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@Picklethewickle

 

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HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH!! ✊🏾✊🏾

 

 

Anania an actor, singer, comedian, and a content creator. They are passionate about poetry, makeup, and drag artistry. They have been a content creator for 5 years now. Being a prominent voice on social media has been both challenging and rewarding, of course. She is the host of the hit show—Gaydar! She’s interviewed guests from local NYC stand-up comics to A-list artists like Chappell Roan, Bob the Drag Queen, Reneé Rapp, and Lucy Daucus.

Anania is a transgender woman whose pronouns are she/they. I just recently found her and she is hilarious and fun to watch. I can’t stop watching her Gaydar videos.

Gaydar Show - Anania (YouTube Channel)

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HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH!! ✊🏾✊🏾

 

 

Jenifer Jeanette Lewis is an American actress and singer. She began her career appearing in Broadway musicals and worked as a back-up singer for Bette Midler before appearing in films Beaches and Sister Act. Lewis is known for playing roles of mothers in the films What's Love Got to Do With It, Poetic Justice, The Preacher's Wife, The Brothers, The Cookout, and the Think Like a Man films.

Lewis is known unofficially as "The Mother of Black Hollywood" (also the name of her memoir) given her frequent matriarchal film and television roles. She also provided the voice for Mama Odie in Disney's animated feature The Princess and the Frog, and Flo in Pixar's Cars series.

On television, Lewis starred as Lana Hawkins in the Lifetime medical drama Strong Medicine from 2000 to 2006. She also had recurring roles on sitcoms A Different World, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Girlfriends. In 2014, Lewis began starring as Ruby Johnson in the ABC comedy series Black-ish, for which she received two Critics' Choice Television Award nominations.

 

Jenifer Lewis playing your mama is a rite of passage - Golden Era Stories

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HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH!! ✊🏾✊🏾

 

 

Ethel Waters found fame and broke barriers as an American blues singer and actress. She started her performance career singing in a nightclub in Baltimore, Maryland. She went on to tour with the Braxton and Nugent vaudeville troupe and to record music. She gained notoriety when she performed "St. Louis Blues." She was the first woman to perform the song.

Over the course of her life, Waters married men three times. Waters lived with her romantic partner Ethel Williams during the 1920s. Her performances and music garnered a large lesbian and gay following. She does not appear to have ever spoken publicly about her sexuality.

Waters became one of the highest paid actresses on Broadway, independent of her race. She starred in the Broadway musical As Thousands Cheer, with music by Irving Berlin. In the show, she sang the notable songs "Heat Wave" and "Suppertime." In 1943, she starred in the African American cast film Cabin in the Sky. During World War II, she was part of the Hollywood Victory Committee and sang on the radio for USO camp shows. In her later years, Waters became deeply religious. She toured with evangelist Billy Graham during the 1960s.

Throughout her career, Waters led the way for future African American artists. She was the second African American to be nominated for an Academy Award. She became the first African American to star in her own television show. She became the first African American woman to be nominated for a primetime Emmy. She also became part of the executive council of Actors Equity and the Negro Actors Guild of America. Through these positions, she supported her fellow actors.

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HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH!! ✊🏾✊🏾

 

 

Nia DaCosta is an American filmmaker. After working on other projects, most notably directing two episodes of the British thriller series Top Boy in 2019, DaCosta became the first Black female director to debut at No. 1 at the U.S. box office for the weekend opening of the horror film Candyman. She then became the first Black woman to direct a Marvel Comics film with The Marvels, which, despite being a box-office bomb, became the highest-grossing film directed by a Black woman.

Additionally, DaCosta was hired to direct 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, which is part of the 28 Days Later film series. The film was released in January 2026. DaCosta commented that "making the 28 Years Later sequel was one of the best filmmaking experiences I've had.”

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HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH AND WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH!! ✊🏾🤝

 

Gloria Jean Watkins (1952–2021), better known by her pen name bell hooks (stylized in lowercase), was an American author, theorist, educator, and social critic who was a Distinguished Professor in Residence at Berea College. She was best known for her writings on race, feminism, and social class. Her work explored the intersections of race, capitalism, and gender, and what she described as their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and class domination. Her work served as foundational to the modern idea of intersectionality. She published numerous scholarly articles and nearly 40 books, in styles ranging from essays and poetry to children's literature, with a body of work that addressed love, gender, art, history, sexuality, and mass media.

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND reading her books!! They are so educational and informative!! Really make you understand how white supremacy, patriarchy, and capitalism are the three most oppressive systems out there, how everything ties back to one of those three or all of them, and how each is used to support each other and keep each alive.

 

RIP to a real one 🕊️ 

[daveb]

Anyone remember an old tv series called Julia? It was from the late 60s/early 70s. Diahann Carroll starred as the title character, a nurse. I vaguely recall watching it when it originally aired. My recollection was it was a good show. Of course, who knows if it would hold up today. But props to Ms. Carroll. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/pioneers-of-television/pioneering-people/diahann-carroll/

 

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HAPPY WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH!! 🤝

 

 

Sally Kristen Ride (1951-2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space, after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982. She was the youngest American astronaut to have flown in space, having done so at the age of 32.

Ride was a graduate of Stanford University, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physics and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature in 1973, a Master of Science degree in 1975, and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1978 (both in physics) for research on the interaction of X-rays with the interstellar medium. She was selected as a mission specialist astronaut with NASA Astronaut Group 8, the first class of NASA astronauts to include women. In June 1983, she flew in space on the Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-7mission. The mission deployed two communications satellites and the first Shuttle pallet satellite. She spent a total of more than 343 hours in space. She left NASA in 1987.

Sally Ride kept her sexual orientation private during her lifetime, largely due to the societal norms and expectations of her time. She was in a relationship with Tam O’Shaughnessy for 27 years, but this aspect of her life was not publicly acknowledged until her death in 2012. In her obituary, it was revealed that O’Shaughnessy was her partner, marking Ride as the first openly gay astronaut.

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HAPPY WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH TO EVERYONE!

 

 

Lucy Salani (1924 – 2023) was an Italian activist and the only known Italian transgender person to have survived the Nazi concentration camps. Born in Fossano and raised in Bologna, Salani was understood to be a gay man before undergoing gender-affirming surgery later in her life. An anti-fascist, Salani deserted both the fascist Italian and the Nazi German armies during World War II before being caught and deported to Dachau concentration camp in 1944, where she remained until the liberation of the camp by the United States Armed Forces in April 1945.

 

Following her liberation and the end of the war, Salani lived in Rome, Turin and Paris before completing her transition in London. She then returned to Bologna in the 1980s, eventually spending the rest of her life in the city. Her life story gained public attention during the 2010s, as writer and director Gabriella Romano dedicated a biography and a documentary (C'è un soffio di vita soltant) to her.

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HAPPY WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH!! 🤝

 

WOMEN DOMINATED THE 2026 WINTER OLYMPICS!!! 🥇🥇🥇

Women won 67% of Team USA's gold medals at the 2026 Winter Olympics Team USA broke its own gold medal record, with eight of its 12 gold medals won by women. This year marked the sixth consecutive Olympics where women's events earned the U.S. more total medals than men's events.

 

20-year-old Alysa Liu is one of this year's Olympic superstars. On Thursday, she became the first Team USA women's figure skater to win gold since 2002, becoming the first to reach the podium in 20 years. With her unique sense of style, Liu has also become an inspiration for young girls everywhere.

 

Amber Glenn made history as the first openly queer woman to represent the U.S. in Olympic figure skating. During her time at the Olympics, she used her platform to spark conversations about social justice and advocate for LGBTQ+ rights. She won gold in team figure skating event.

 

Choi Ga-on, Chloe Kim, and Mitsuki Ono made history with the first-ever all-Asian podium in the women's snowboard halfpipe event. Kim won the silver medal in the women’s snowboard halfpipe this year.

 

At 41 years old, Elana Meyers Taylor made history as the oldest American woman to ever win gold at the Winter Olympics. Despite being the most decorated U.S. woman athlete as a bobsledder in Winter Olympics history, she had never won a gold medal until now. She is also recognized as the most decorated Black athlete in Winter Olympics history.

 

 

The Team USA's women's hockey team took home the gold in a nail-biting match against Canada. This is the first gold medal for USA's women's hockey since 2018.

 

There was also a celebration of love at this year's Olympics. Team USA women's hockey star Hilary Knight got engaged to her partner and fellow Olympian, speed skater Brittany Bowe. Knight secured her second Olympic gold medal in women’s ice hockey.

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HAPPY WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH!! 🤝

 

⚠️Trigger Warning: mentions rape⚠️

Promising Young Woman is a 2020 black comedy thriller film written, directed, and co-produced by Emerald Fennell in her feature directorial debut. It stars Carey Mulligan as a troubled young woman haunted by a traumatic past as she navigates forgiveness and vengeance, with Bo Burnham, Alison Brie, Clancy Brown, Chris Lowell, Jennifer Coolidge, Laverne Cox, and Connie Britton in supporting roles. It incorporates film genres including black comedy, crime drama, feminist film, rape and revenge, and vigilante thriller.

The film won Best Original Screenplay at the 93rd Academy Awards, with additional nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Mulligan), and Best Film Editing. Fennell also won Best Original Screenplay at the Critics' Choice Awards, Writers' Guild Awards, and British Academy Film Awards. The Writers Guild of America ranked the film's screenplay the 23rd greatest of the 21st century.

 

Therapists React to PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN with guest Dr. Tracey Marks - Cinema Therapy

‼️SPOILERS‼️in this video! Still, I HIGHLY recommend you watch this film if you can! This video gives a good analysis of the film though.

BTW, this film’s title is a deliberate, ironic subversion of the phrase “promising young man,” commonly used in media to described privileged men accused of sexual assault. It highlights the contrast between how society protects male potential and ignores the ruined lives of female victims.

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HAPPY WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH!! There are so many amazing women that deserve to have their stories told.

 

 

Lucy Hicks Anderson (1886-1954) was a Black transgender woman who knew from an early age that she was a girl—decades before the word "transgender" would be commonly understood. Born in the late 1800s, she told her parents exactly who she was. Uncertain of what to do, they brought her to a doctor, who concluded that there was nothing wrong with her and advised they let her live as herself. And so they did. From that point forward, Lucy Hicks Anderson lived unapologetically and fully as a woman.

 

She eventually settled in Oxnard, California, where she opened a boarding house that doubled as a brothel and bootlegging operation. Her reputation in town soared. She was known as the city’s best cook and a socialite who threw the most unforgettable parties. At one point, after she was arrested, a wealthy banker posted her bail, because he had an event the next day and she was to be the chef.

 

In 1944, Lucy married her husband. Sadly, a year later, her assigned sex at birth was discovered, and both she and her husband were sentenced to a men’s prison, where they served 10 years. When they were released, they moved together to Los Angeles, where they lived out the rest of their lives together.

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Azar Nafisi is an Iranian-American writer and professor of English literature. Born in Tehran, Iran, she has resided in the United States since 1997 and became a U.S. citizen in 2008.
 

She is the niece of a famous Iranian scholar, fiction writer and poet Saeed Nafisi. Azar Nafisi is best known for her 2003 book Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, which remained on The New York Times Best Seller list for 117 weeks, and has won several literary awards and was later adapted into a film in 2024. Golshifteh Farahani, one of the most well-known Iranian actresses, plays Nafisi in the film.

 

I read her Reading Lolita in Tehran book for college last semester. It’s a powerful exploration of the resilience of women and the enduring impact of literature in the face of oppression, making it a vital read for those interested in the complexities of life in Iran and the universal quest for freedom and self-expression.

It recounts the experiences of Iranian author Azar Nafisi as she navigates life in Iran during and after the Islamic Revolution. The memoir is structured around her clandestine literature classes held in her home, where she gathers seven female students to discuss forbidden Western classics, including Nabokov's "Lolita," Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," and Austen's works. Through these discussions, Nafisi and her students explore their identities, dreams, and the oppressive realities they face under a repressive regime. 
 

Also recommend her Read Dangerously book as that was good too.

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Christine Sun Kim is a Deaf Asian American artist who explores sound, language, and communication in her art. She is a performer, activist, and occasional curator. Kim’s art attends to the many layers of translation required by all modes of communication. She creates billboards, murals, videos, performances, works on paper, and audio installations to explore the pervasive, multi-sensory social world of sound and assert her place in it. A co-creator of the open-source symbol <0/ for “Deaf Power,” Kim uses her artwork and public platforms to illuminate the complexities of Deaf culture, its relationship to sound and language, intersectional identities, and the social hierarchies embedded in communication systems.

Kim studied painting at New York’s School of Visual Arts, but found her artistic voice pursuing a further degree in sound and music at Bard College. Using everything from charcoal to Velcro, she mines parallels between musical notation and glossing, the notation system for sign language; between the ways a score directs instrumentalists as she conducts American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters; and between the expressive registers of certain musical forms, like opera and anthems, and the embodied visual language of ASL. She also regularly deploys humor “to pull people in and to open their minds.”

She has exhibited and performed globally and participated in international exhibitions and performing solo shows. She is a TED Senior Fellow and Disability Future Fellow. In 2020, she made history as the first ever Deaf Asian American to sign the national anthem at the Super Bowl.

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HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY!! 🤝

 

International Women's Day is now globally recognized for celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of all women. But visibility once a year isn't enough. 

Education for women and girls

Globally, 133 million girls remain out of school. In Afghanistan, at least about 2.2 million adolescent girls are now banned from secondary education. Afghanistan ranks last on the Women, Peace, and Security Index and remains the only country in the world where girls and women are banned from secondary and higher education.

 

Bodily Autonomy

40% of women worldwide live in countries with restrictive abortion laws. The United States, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Poland are the only countries that have rolled back abortion rights since 1994.

Healthcare

Approximately 712 women die each day during pregnancy and childbirth.

The U.S. has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the developed world, with Black women facing two to three times the risk of dying from pregnancy related causes. Globally, around 137 women and girls are killed every day by an intimate partner or family member - roughly one woman every 10 minutes.

Safety

Globally, around 137 women and girls are killed every day by an intimate partner or family member, roughly one woman every 10 minutes. In Mexico, around 10 women are killed every day, many in acts of femicide. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, and Tigray (Ethiopia), thousands of women and girls continue to suffer as sexual violence is used as a weapon of war. More than 230 million girls and women alive today have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) in 30 countries.

Digital Safety
Millions of women and girls experience digital abuse every year, yet only around 12% of countries have laws that specifically criminalize cyber-sexual harassment.

Economic Equality

Globally, women are paid less than men across all regions, with the gender pay gap estimated be around 17%. In Pakistan and Iran, economic gender parity is only about 35%, among the lowest in the world, with cultural, legal, and structural barriers limiting women's participation and advancement in the workforce. Only 2% of all charitable giving goes to organizations dedicated to women and girls. Only one-fifth of one percent of global aid was spent on preventing gender-based violence.

Marriage 

32 million girls live in countries with high child marriage rates. 12 million girls marry before the age of 18 every year. 1 in 5 girls in the world are married before 18. Niger has the highest child marriage rate globally, with around 76% of girls married before 18.

Workplace Protections

Nearly 60% of women worldwide do not have access to social protection at work, including paid maternity leave, unemployment benefits, or protections against unsafe working conditions.

Environmental Justice 

Indigenous people make up 5% of the world's population but steward 80% of the planet's biodiversity. Indigenous communities in the Amazon and other regions are fighting to protect their cultures, lands, and lives from deforestation, mining, and industrial expansion.

LGTBQIA+ Rights

In over 60 countries, same-sex relationships are still criminalized. In Brunei, Iran, Mauritania, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Uganda, and Yemen, same-sex sexual activity is punishable by death. Fewer than 10% of countries offer full legal gender recognition for transgender people, and only a small handful legally recognise non-binary genders on official documents.

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HAPPY WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH!! 🤝

 

 

Audre Lorde (1934 – 1992) was an American writer, professor, philosopher, intersectional feminist, poet, and civil rights activist. She was a self-described "Black, lesbian, feminist, socialist, mother, warrior, poet" who dedicated her life and talents to confronting all forms of injustice and oppression. She believed that there could be "no hierarchy of oppressions" among "those who share the goals of liberation and a workable future for our children".

As a poet, she is well known for technical mastery and emotional expression, as well as her poems that express anger and outrage at civil and social injustices she observed throughout her life. She was the recipient of national and international awards and the founding member of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press. As a spoken word artist, her delivery has been called powerful, melodic, and intense by the Poetry Foundation. Her poems and prose largely deal with issues related to civil rights, feminism, lesbianism, illness, disability, and the exploration of Black female identity.

Lorde focused her discussion of difference not only on differences between groups of women but between conflicting differences within the individual. "I am defined as other in every group I'm part of," she declared. "Yet without community," Lorde wrote, "there is certainly no liberation, no future, only the most vulnerable andtemporary armistice between me and my oppression". She described herself both as a part of a "continuum of women" and a "concert of voices" within herself.

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HAPPY WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH!! 🤝

 

 

Researchers analyzed data from nearly 3,000 trans women. Their findings further proved that trans women have no physical advantage over cis athletes. A trans woman's physical performance generally matches that of a cis woman after a year of hormone therapy, according to the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

"Most [anti-trans policies] are based on the assumption that transgender women retain inherent physical advantages and would therefore dominate women's competitions. The data does not support this idea," researcher Bruno Gualano told EL PAÍS. Transgender women likely do not retain athletic advantages over cisgender women after undergoing hormone therapy, according to the results of a new meta-analysis published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

The report, conducted by a team of eight researchers in Brazil, analyzed 52 previous studies of trans athletes’ physical performance compared to groups of their cis peers. In total, the research team looked at data from 2,943 trans women and 2,309 trans men in relation to results from 568 cis women and 665 cis men.

Overall, the team found that trans women’s physical performance generally tended to match that of cis women after a year or more of hormone therapy. Although trans women showed higher levels of absolute lean mass than cis women, the two groups were roughly equivalent in key metrics of physical fitness such as upper and lower body strength and maximal oxygen consumption.

Trans men reported upper and lower body strength levels lower than cis men, but higher than cis women, the study also found, demonstrating “intermediate body composition and strength metrics” between both groups after several years of hormone therapy.

Significant gaps remain in the existing research, Gualano told El País, which requires further consideration. Many of the studies only followed participants for a few years, and most focused on adult subjects, leaving questions about long-term results for trans youth who receive puberty blockers. Some questions are still unanswerable, however: the meta-analysis found little data regarding trans athletes at the elite level, which researchers attributed to the scarcity of elite-level trans athletes in any sport. “That gap exists because, to begin with, there are hardly any trans women competing,” Gualano said.

[Barbio]

On 3/8/2026 at 7:07 PM, lovely_xm07 said:

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY!! 🤝

 

International Women's Day is now globally recognized for celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of all women. But visibility once a year isn't enough. 

Education for women and girls

Globally, 133 million girls remain out of school. In Afghanistan, at least about 2.2 million adolescent girls are now banned from secondary education. Afghanistan ranks last on the Women, Peace, and Security Index and remains the only country in the world where girls and women are banned from secondary and higher education.

 

Bodily Autonomy

40% of women worldwide live in countries with restrictive abortion laws. The United States, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Poland are the only countries that have rolled back abortion rights since 1994.

Healthcare

Approximately 712 women die each day during pregnancy and childbirth.

The U.S. has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the developed world, with Black women facing two to three times the risk of dying from pregnancy related causes. Globally, around 137 women and girls are killed every day by an intimate partner or family member - roughly one woman every 10 minutes.

Safety

Globally, around 137 women and girls are killed every day by an intimate partner or family member, roughly one woman every 10 minutes. In Mexico, around 10 women are killed every day, many in acts of femicide. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, and Tigray (Ethiopia), thousands of women and girls continue to suffer as sexual violence is used as a weapon of war. More than 230 million girls and women alive today have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) in 30 countries.

Digital Safety
Millions of women and girls experience digital abuse every year, yet only around 12% of countries have laws that specifically criminalize cyber-sexual harassment.

Economic Equality

Globally, women are paid less than men across all regions, with the gender pay gap estimated be around 17%. In Pakistan and Iran, economic gender parity is only about 35%, among the lowest in the world, with cultural, legal, and structural barriers limiting women's participation and advancement in the workforce. Only 2% of all charitable giving goes to organizations dedicated to women and girls. Only one-fifth of one percent of global aid was spent on preventing gender-based violence.

Marriage 

32 million girls live in countries with high child marriage rates. 12 million girls marry before the age of 18 every year. 1 in 5 girls in the world are married before 18. Niger has the highest child marriage rate globally, with around 76% of girls married before 18.

Workplace Protections

Nearly 60% of women worldwide do not have access to social protection at work, including paid maternity leave, unemployment benefits, or protections against unsafe working conditions.

Environmental Justice 

Indigenous people make up 5% of the world's population but steward 80% of the planet's biodiversity. Indigenous communities in the Amazon and other regions are fighting to protect their cultures, lands, and lives from deforestation, mining, and industrial expansion.

LGTBQIA+ Rights

In over 60 countries, same-sex relationships are still criminalized. In Brunei, Iran, Mauritania, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Uganda, and Yemen, same-sex sexual activity is punishable by death. Fewer than 10% of countries offer full legal gender recognition for transgender people, and only a small handful legally recognise non-binary genders on official documents.

I'd like to know your source for these statistics, if you don't mind sharing. (Not disputing them, just curious where they came from)

[lovely_xm07]

2 hours ago, Barbio said:

I'd like to know your source for these statistics, if you don't mind sharing. (Not disputing them, just curious where they came from)

Sources:

 

LGBTQIA+ Rights

ILGA WORLD IS THE INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS, AND INTERSEX ASSOCIATION

Rainbow Map

Human Rights Watch

 

Environmental Justice

Conversation International

 

Workplace Protections

International Labor Organization

 

Marriage & Family

Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage

Save the Children

 

Economic Equality

UN Women

Global Gender Gap Report 2025

 

Digital Safety

The International Telecommunication Union

 

Safety

United Nations Women's Knowledge Hub

UNICEF

 

Healthcare 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

World Health Organization

 

Bodily Autonomy 

Amnesty International

Center for Reproductive Rights

 

Education for women and girls

United Nations - Peace and Security

Georgetown Institute for Women

Edited March 11 by lovely_xm07
Added missing sources

[Barbio]

4 hours ago, lovely_xm07 said:

Sources:

 

LGBTQIA+ Rights

ILGA WORLD IS THE INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS, AND INTERSEX ASSOCIATION

Rainbow Map

Human Rights Watch

 

Environmental Justice

Conversation International

 

Workplace Protections

International Labor Organization

 

Marriage & Family

Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage

Save the Children

 

Economic Equality

UN Women

Global Gender Gap Report 2025

 

Digital Safety

The International Telecommunication Union

 

Safety

United Nations Women's Knowledge Hub

UNICEF

 

Healthcare 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

World Health Organization

 

Bodily Autonomy 

Amnesty International

Center for Reproductive Rights

 

Education for women and girls

United Nations - Peace and Security

Georgetown Institute for Women

Cool, thanks!

[lovely_xm07]

HAPPY WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH!! 🤝

 

 

So yesterday was Harriet Tubman Day, and I completely forgot, so we are honoring her today.

In honor of the anti-slavery activist, Harriet Tubman, March 10 is an American holiday to recognize and remember the brave woman who fought for freedom and the abolishment of slavery. Harriet Tubman Day was constituted as a national holiday by the United States Congress in 1990 to celebrate the long and heroic work accomplished by Harriet Tubman. Since 1990, Harriet Tubman Day is celebrated annually on March 10 throughout the United States.

 

Did you know there are plans to put her face on the $20 dollar bill to replace Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the U.S. and known white supremacist considering his horrible treatment of the Native Americans and being a slaveholder?

The plan to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill was officially announced by the Treasury Department in April 2016. This decision followed a public campaign to update the imagery on U.S. currency to better represent the country’s history. Tubman was chosen because of her massive contributions to American democracy as a leader of the Underground Railroad, a Union scout during the Civil War, and an advocate for women’s right to vote. The new introduction of the $20 bill is now projected to occur by 2030.

On Harriet Tubman Day, a new effort to place the abolitionist on the $20 bill launches

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Autumn Cheyenne Durald Arkapaw is an American cinematographer. For her work on the film Sinners, she became the first woman of color to be nominated, and the first woman to win, an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. 

Arkapaw shot the 2025 film, Sinners, on 65 mm film using a combination of IMAX15-perf and Ultra Panavision 70cameras, which made her the first female director of photography to shoot any movie on large format IMAX film. For her work on Sinners, she became the first woman of color (Arkapaw is of Filipino and Black Creole descent) to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography. She won the award at the 98th Academy Awards, becoming the first female cinematographer, first black person, and first Filipino, to win in the category.

On television, she received a nomination at the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards for Outstanding Cinematography for her work on the Loki episode "Lamentis".

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Kim Eun-jae known professionally as EJAE is a South Korean and American singer, songwriter, and record producer. EJAE has a bit of a comeback story with her originally signing on as a trainee at the storied SM Entertainment in 2003. But soon found her herself dismissed from the program without debuting. She later taught herself how to produce music where she describes that’s where she started emoting herself through songwriting and beats.

She initially became known for her work with K-pop groups such as Red Velvet, Aespa, Twice, Le Sserafim, and other South Korean artists. This included co-writing the topline for "Psycho" for girl group Red Velvet, which topped the US Billboard World Digital Songs chart.

However, EJAE had her international breakthrough in 2025 after working on Sony Pictures Animation and Netflix film KPop Demon Hunters. Not only did she write on most of the songs on the smash hit soundtrack, she provided the singing voice for main character, Rumi. "Golden", one of the songs she co-wrote and co-performed, topped the Billboard Hot 100 and other global music charts, and earned four Grammy Award nominations including Song of the Year. At the 2026 Oscars, "Golden" made history as the first K-pop song to ever win Best Original Song.

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Mariah Lopez is an American activist based in New York City. She has been a plaintiff in multiple lawsuits related to civil and human rights, and has lobbied for legislation and greater policy protections for LGBTQ people. López is a Black-Latina trans woman. 

In 2001, Lopez met Sylvia Rivera after she was referred by a social worker to the Transy House for housing. Lopez left high school before graduation and later completed a GED and then attended college. At age 13, she became the lead plaintiff in a 1999 class action lawsuit that alleged routine violence and psychological abuse was perpetrated against gay and lesbian children in New York foster care. After being placed in an all-male group home at age 16, she sued pursuant to the New York Human Rights Law and at age 17 won the right to wear skirts and dresses.

Lopez is the executive director of Strategic Transgender Alliance for Radical Reform (STARR). As Sylvia’s adopted daughter, she carries on Sylvia’s legacy with STARR continuing to provide for the immediate needs of the trans, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary (TGNCNB) community. Mariah has personally lobbied and litigated New York City agencies for better treatment and support of TGNCNB New Yorkers in many aspects of their lives. She has advocated for several important issues including healthcare access, housing for incarcerated people, improving the quality of LGBTQ+ shelters in New York City, the preservation of trans New York history, and much more.

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Kathrine Virginia Switzer is an American marathon runner, author, and television commentator. In 1967, she became the first woman to run the Boston Marathon as an officially registered competitor, having entered as "K.V. Switzer". Switzer's trainer Arnie Briggs, and her boyfriend Thomas Miller, were also in the race.

During her run, the race manager Jock Semple assaulted Switzer, trying to grab her bib number and thereby remove her from official competition. Semple knocked Briggs down when he tried to protect her, but was then shoved to the ground by Miller; she completed the race. The attack was photographed and reported internationally.

 

 

In response to her run, the AAU banned women from competing in races against men—women had not previously been explicitly excluded. Five years later, in 1972, women were first accepted officially to run the Boston Marathon. Switzer finished third in that 1972 race and Semple presented her with her trophy. Katherine Switzer is still an active runner and continues to run marathons.

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Mira Nair is an Indian American filmmaker. She has received two prizes from the Cannes Film Festival and four from the Venice Film Festival, as well as nominations for an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, a Golden Globe, and two César Awards. Born and raised in India, Nair moved to the U.S. to attend Harvard University. She then lived for a few years in Uganda with her second husband, political scientist Mahmood Mamdani, but they later returned to the United States. Their son, Zohran Mamdani, has served as Mayor of New York City since 2026.

Nair began her career making documentaries, but went on to make feature films. She usually directs independent drama films, which she also produces through her company Mirabai Films, and her films often touch on political themes or controversial topics. She made her feature-length directorial debut with Salaam Bombay! (1988), which received Academy Award, BAFTA Award, and Golden Globe Award nominations. Her next film, Mississippi Masala, was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Film.

Nair has directed films such as Monsoon Wedding, Vanity Fair, The Namesake, and Queen of Katwe. Monsoon Wedding made her the first female director to win the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best International Feature Film, and held the record for the highest-grossing Indian film in North America until 2017.

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Mary Frances Thompson Fisher (1895 – 1995), best known as Te Ata, was an American actress, centenarian and citizen of the Chickasaw Nation known for telling Native American stories. She performed as a representative of Native Americans at state dinners before President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s. She was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1957 and was named Oklahoma's first State Treasure in 1987. 

Te Ata was encouraged to use Native American stories as the basis for her senior performance at Oklahoma College for Women. Te Ata made her debut as an artist during her senior year of college performing songs and stories from several different tribes. Upon graduation, Te Ata was offered a part in a traveling Chautauqua circuit by Thurlow Lieurance. The tour gave Te Ata an opportunity to travel across the United States and fostered her talents as a performer. She then moved to New York City, where she performed in several Broadway productions; her most notable role was Andromache in The Trojan Women. She eventually decided to concentrate on her one-woman performances of Native American songs and stories.

In addition to traveling across the United States, Te Ata visited Denmark, Sweden, Estonia, Finland, England, Peru, Guatemala, Canada, Mexico, and Scandinavia. Te Ata's career spanned more than 60 years, and she collected hundreds of stories from different tribes. During her performances she told numerous stories, such as "There Are Birds of Many Colors" by Hiamove, "The Creation of Mankind" told to her by her father, "How Death Came into the World", "Pasikola (Rabbit) was Disconnected", "Anybody Want a Wife?", "The Corn Ceremony", "The Blue Duck", and "Baby Rattlesnake".

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Emily Kauiomakawelinalaniokamanookalanipo, also referred to as Emily Kau'i (1909 - 1994), was an American Hawaiian hula master and teacher (kumu hula). She was recognized as one of the Living Treasures of Hawaii by the Honpa Hongwanji Mission, and was a recipient of a National Heritage Fellowship in 1984.

In 1936, Zuttermeister opened her own school for hula – Ilima Hula Hale. She continued teaching hula, traditional chants, and pahu drumming in the style of Pua Ha'aheo for more than 50 years. She taught her daughters, Noenoelani and Kuuipo, and her granddaughter, Hauoli as well.

Zuttermeister judged various hula competitions, including the Merrie Monarch Festival in Hilo, the King Kamehameha Traditional Hula and Chant Competition, and the Queen Lili'uokalani Trust's Hula Kahiko Amateur Contest. In 1983, she was recognized as a Living Treasure of Hawaii by the Honpa Hongwanji Mission. She was a recipient of a 1984 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the United States government's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.