Hey, Sister, Can You Spare Some Social Change? Archive

1August 11, 2011
Crunk, Talking Genitals & Childish Fashion Crimes (or, A What I’ve Been Reading Link Round-Up)

Just a good old fashioned link round-up — yee-haw! 1.) At The Crunk Feminist Collective, a thought provoking post on self care for the feminist or liberal activist: Talk about…
0August 10, 2011
Resist, And You Are Called Confrontational. Or Mentally Ill.

Remember the Nirvana song Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle? Here’s Kurt Cobain’s response to, “So why was Frances Farmer such an inspiration?” (Melody Maker, August 28th, 1993)…
0August 7, 2011
Sign Of The Times 1932

Wanted Urgently a strong rope to hang myself alternatively unfurnished accommodation for my wife unborn child and myself Photograph of an unknown man during the Depression, circa 1932; via, via.
0July 28, 2011
Sign Of The Times: 1922 & Today

Message in Washington, D.C., July 28, 1922; message to Washington, D.C. today. Don’t let the tea party-ers or republicans fool you: the hold-up on the debt ceiling has nothing to…
0July 13, 2011
The Vow: For You, Not I

While most people have been talking about the horrible misrepresentation of slavery and other racist notions, Vyckie Garrison, of No Longer Qivering, notes the other sinister side, the sexist side,…
0July 8, 2011
Think Global, Act Local

“Think Global, Act Local” is more than an old saying or mantra; it’s a philosophy. Thinking globally while acting locally is a way to take huge problems, like racism (as…
0July 7, 2011
Suffering A Man In A Dress For Suffrage

On the front of this 5 3/4 X 3 1/2 “snapshot,” which the seller says is circa 1915, someone has printed “AN ARIZONA SUFFRAGETTE.” As I cannot handle this photograph,…
0June 21, 2011
How To Dress For Success: Suffragette Edition

In The Washington Post, November 1, 1909, an unidentified “London fashion designer” gets bitchy and judgmental about how suffragettes dress. Yes, even though I don’t know if this possibly fictitious…
0June 15, 2011
Rethinking Pink (Or Girls Don’t Need Pencils)

Speaking of suffrage colors… A news clipping from the New Brunswick Times, October 15, 1915, about Miss Ellen Murray who threw an anti-suffrage party: The house was decorated in the…
1June 14, 2011
Antique Suffragette Bookmark

While interviewing Lauren Roberts about her bookmark collection (continued here), I found one antique silk bookmark most fetching… Turns out this might just be a bit of suffragette history. Lauren,…
0June 12, 2011
Punished For Parenting, Blue Laws, 1884

Jim Linderman presents this original court document from Williamsport in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, dated June 3, 1884 in which Mrs. Susan Johnson was arrested and charged with being “addicted to…
1May 24, 2011
We All End Up Paying For It, Celebrities Or Not

Gawd I love Roseanne. There are about one million reasons to; here’s one more. A very special quote from a very special article, And I Should Know, Barr had published…
0May 22, 2011
Equal Rights Status, 1944

A quick news item found in the May 1, 1944 issue of Pathfinder magazine; with links added by yours truly: Equal Rights Pledging support to candidates in the coming election…
0May 11, 2011
Sign Of The Times: 1940s

I know what the sign is, where I found it, and that it’s likely circa the 1940s, but even though the sign reads “No Deception Club,” I have no idea…
2April 12, 2011
Confessions Of Culture Shifts & Gender Bias

Sometimes being 46 years old — and a woman — is an amazing thing. I’m often fascinated by the cultural shifts I’ve witnessed; too often dismayed by the cultural shifts…
0February 25, 2011
Sign Of The Times, 1948

For our brothers and sisters in Wisconsin, a historical reminder: Child at an auto strike in 1948. Have you signed up for Saturday’s solidarity rally in your area yet? Photo…
0February 22, 2011
Shoes Like A Chastity Belt

With the current state of affairs — i.e. republicans trying to defund Planned Parenthood, it seems these Knee High Converse shoes might become affordable birth control. (Yes, even at $60+…
0February 8, 2011
No More Wire Hangers, Ever!

I’m invoking the name and memory of Joan Crawford to make a plea for those of you in the US to take action against those who would force women to…
2February 8, 2011
The History, Legacy & Power Of Housewives (And Woman In General)

I found this photo of a National Housewives League meeting Detroit, Michigan, in 1945 while researching the Organized Housewives, a completely unrelated group. The National Housewives’ League of America was…
0January 28, 2011
“Snake Oil Is Wonderful Stuff” (I Fear A New Anti-Obama Slogan *sigh*)

A vintage ad (Newsweek, 1950), in which those wise and merciful corporations, Electric Light & Power Companies, expose their virtues while exposing the menace that is government regulation, comparing it…
0January 16, 2011
Sign Of The Times

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