#women's history 365

[cozyaliensuperstar7]

Women's History 365

Black History 365

#Repost @nwe

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🇭🇹 The Haitian Woman King

Victoria Montou’s love and guidance were instrumental in shaping the future emperor of Haiti, and she’s often referred to as “The Mother of the Nation”. Her unwavering support and leadership were crucial in the fight for freedom, and her legacy lives on as an inspiration to all the women.

🎥 @translhaitian @creolexhibit

#women's history 365 #black history 365

[todayontumblr]

Thursday, February 1.

Black History Month 2024.

Get ready to immerse yourself in a month-long celebration of Black joy, Black excellence, and Black art. Following the Association for the Study of African American Life and History's announcement that the theme for Black History Month 2024 is "African Americans and the Arts," we're thrilled to shine a spotlight on Black creators of all stripes right here on Tumblr.

#today on tumblr #black history #black history month #black history month 2024 #black women #black art #black artists #black history 365 #black history month 24 #BHM 24 #BHM 2024 #african history #black artist #black love #black excellence

[mimi-0007]

🖤🖤🖤🖤

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[blackisdivine]

Black History Month may be ending but Black history is happening and being made every moment and every single day. ✊✊✊

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[tredawakandan]

Long Live Serena Legacy 💯

#serena williams #richard williams #tennis #black history #black history 365 #black history month #black athletes #black women

[8-rock]

Happy Black History Month 🖤

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[dreams-in-blk]

"Everyone knows the phrase “Black is beautiful,” but very few have heard of the man who helped to popularize it. Brooklyn-born black photographer Kwame Brathwaite..." aperture magazine

#dreams in blk #black tumblr #black beauty #black girl magic #black fashion model #poc aesthetic #moodboard #black people #black women #blackness #black power #black pride #black excellence 365 #black history 365 #black women aesthetic #black girl aesthetic #black girl art #black girl moodboard #black girls #kwame brathwaite #black is beautiful

[wondermutt20]

"Do not allow your mind to be imprisoned by majority thinking. Remember that the limits of science are not the limits of imagination."

Patricia Era Bath - (1942-2019) - American Ophthalmologist

#quoteoftheday #quotes #quotesoftheday #quotes of tumblr #inspirational #life quotes #life quote #doctors #ophthalmology #patricia era bath #patricia bath #black history month #black history 365 #365 #daily quotes #imagination #limitless #no limits #black power #black women

[alleannaharris]

Today's Black History Month illustration is of Althea Gibson. She became the first Black athlete to cross the color line of international tennis and golf. (She has a TON of records, so here it goes!)

Gibson was born in 1927 on a cotton farm in South Carolina, but her family moved to Harlem in 1930. While growing up in NYC, she played paddle tennis under the supervision of the New York Police Athletic League. She became so good at paddle tennis that by the age of twelve, she won the NYC women’s paddle tennis championship.

In 1940, a group of Gibson’s neighbors put money together to pay for her junior membership at the Cosmopolitan Tennis Club in Harlem. A year later, she won her first tournament, the American Tennis Association’s NY State Championship, founded by Black tennis players. She won the ATA national championship in 1944 & 1945. In 1947, she won the ATA’s women’s singles championship, which she continued to win for 10 consecutive years.

Her success drew the attention of Dr. Walter Johnson, a Black physician from Virginia who was also an avid tennis player. He mentored her and helped her enter into competitions with the US Tennis Association (USTA). In 1949, she became the first Black woman and second Black athlete to play in the USTA’s National Indoor Championship. After that, she received a full athletic scholarship at Florida A&M.

In 1950, Gibson became the first Black to compete in the US Open at Forest Hills in Queens, NY. In 1956, she became the first African American to win the French Open. In 1957, she won Wimbledon, and received the trophy personally from Queen Elizabeth. She won the doubles championship as well and when she returned to NYC, she became the second athlete (after Jesse Owens) to receive a ticker tape parade.

In late 1958, after winning 56 national and international singles and doubles titles including 11 Grand Slam championships, she retired from amateur tennis at the age of 31. In 1964, at the age of 37, she became the first Black woman to join the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) tour. Her best tournament finish was a tie for second place at the 1970 Buick Open.

Overall, Althea Gibson is considered to be one of the greatest tennis players in history and paved the way for players like Venus and Serena Williams.

I’ll be back tomorrow with another illustration and story!

#Althea Gibson #black history month 2023 #black history month #black history 365 #artists on tumblr #illustrators on tumblr #black women art #kidlitart

[inthemarginalized]

Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens. -Ella Baker (December 13, 1903 – December 13, 1986)

She was a Black civil rights and human rights activist. She was a largely behind-the-scenes organizer whose career spanned over five decades. She was a critic of professionalized, charismatic leadership and a promoter of grassroots organizing and radical democracy.

#ella baker #black women #black history 365 #hate crimes #racism

[cozyaliensuperstar7]

#Repost @bcgmag

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Sports Agent Nicole Lynn Promoted to President of Football at Klutch Sports the sports agency founded by Lebron James and Rich Paul. ✊🏾👑

#women's history 365 #black history 365

[lotus-flower-writes-history]

The Unofficial Black History Book

Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner (1912-2006)

Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner is a forgotten black inventor who changed the way menstrual pads operated, but her idea was turned down because of the color of her skin, and she was later not given credit for her invention.

This is her story.

Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner was born on May 17th, 1912, in Monroe, North Carolina. She came from a family of inventors. Her father, Sidney Nathaniel Davidson (1890–1958), patented a clothing press that would fit into suitcases but never made money off of the invention, which failed. Her grandfather invented a light signal for trains, and her sister, Mildred Davidson Austin Smith (1916–1993), invented and commercially sold board games.

As a child, Kenner was interested in creating tools to make everyday life more convenient. She had her first idea when she was six years old—a self-oiling door hinge—but the idea never came to fruition. She would draw her ideas throughout her childhood. One of her ideas was a portable ashtray that would attach to the cigarette carton and a sponge tip that would soak the rainwater off an umbrella.

When Mary turned 12, her family moved to Washington, D.C., and she would often visit the United States Patent and Trademark Office to see if anyone had beaten her to patent any of her ideas.

Side Note: The Patent System - that started in 1787, was not open to African Americans who were born into slavery, even if freed, as it did not consider them citizens.

After graduating high school, Mary enrolled at Howard University but later dropped out when she couldn't afford tuition. She took on odd jobs and became a federal employee during WWII. She worked for the Census Bureau and later for the General Accounting Office. Mary also chaperoned younger women who attended dances at military bases in the Washington, D.C., area.

She met soldier and renowned boxer James "Jabbo" Kenner and married him in 1951. They adopted five boys but had no kids of their own. She retired from government work and opened a flower shop while continuing to work on her inventions.

By 1957, Kenner had saved enough money to file her first patent for an elastic belt that held sanitary napkins in place. Adhesive Maxi Pads didn't exist at the time.

How the invention worked was that a moisture-proof napkin pocket was built into the belt, which prevented more leaks than the cloth pads and rags women were using at the time. 

One company. 'The Sonn-Nap-Pack' was interested in her invention and offered to market it. But when they discovered she was a black woman, they turned her down instantly.

"One day, I was contacted by a company that expressed an interest in my marketing idea. I was so jubilant...I saw houses, cars, and everything else about to come my way. Sorry to say, when they found out I was black, their interest dropped." She said in Laura F. Jeffery's Book, 'Amazing American Inventors of the 20th Century'

Because of racism, they did not patent the sanitary belt until 30 years after Kenner introduced it. But her invention was a crucial step for women's comfort and revolutionized menstrual hygiene during a time when women had limited options.

Between 1956 and 1987, Kenner received five total patents for her household and personal inventions. A backwasher that one could mount on the shower or bathtub wall was among Kenner's inventions for which she received a patent. When her sister was confined to a bed due to multiple sclerosis in 1976, it inspired her to file her third patent.

A special attachment for a walker or wheelchair that included a hard-surfaced tray and a soft pocket for carrying items. Also, a toilet paper holder that made sure the loose end of the roll was always reachable. 

Kenner never became rich from her inventions, but her ideas centered on accessibility and ease and paved the way for more inventions in the future.

Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner died at the age of 93 on January 13th, 2006.

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[miscellaneousjay]

I’m WRECKEEEEDDDDD!!!! I just finished watching “The Woman King” and I am ALL IN MY FEELINGS! Gina Prince-Bythewood created an emotionally moving, beautiful masterpiece! Although naturally triggering given slavery and all that entails for historical accuracy, this film was well-done! All I could think of was the Dora Milaje looking at these women! My faves are/were Nawi and IZOGIEEEEEE!!!!!😭😭😭😭 I tried not to cry and failed….terribly.

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[mimi-0007]

The beautiful Mrs. Coretta Scott King 🤎🤎

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[itsmythang]

Rosa Ingram and her teen sons were sentenced to death in 1948 after they murdered a white neighbor who attempted to sexually assault their mother. Thanks to civil rights activists the story gained national press. They were later released on parole for being "model prisoners."

—In 1948 Rosa Lee Ingram, a sharecropper and widowed Mother of four boys, was the center of one of the most-explosive capital punishment cases in history. In 1948 in a one-day trial, Ingram and two of her teenage boys were sentenced to die by electric chair, after an altercation with a White landowner in the state of Georgia. On November 4, 1947, the landowner reportedly confronted Ingram and three of her sons over livestock entering his land near the small town of Ellaville. John Stratford was armed with a shotgun and pocket knife when he went to have his word with Ingram. Three of Ingram’s boys overheard their mother yelling then rushed over to her armed with farm instruments.

Later, the 64-year-old man was found dead by way of blows to the head according to the investigation. In several accounts and most notably in author Janus Adams‘ “Sister Days: 365 Inspired Moments in African-American Women’s History,” it was said that Stratford struck Ingram in the head with the butt of his rifle after threatening to shoot her mules that allegedly invaded his cornfield. Other historical accounts state that according to later testimony, though, Stratford threatened Ingram with sexual assault before striking her.

Either way, Ingram and her sons, Wallace, 16, and Sammy, 14, were all convicted by an all-White jury to death; Charles, 17, was at the scene but not charged due to lack of evidence. Although there was an investigation at the scene of the murder, it has been suggested that many who responded to the incident were not officially mandated to do so. As a result, civil rights activists from NAACP branches around the nation leaped in to action to assist Ingram and her boys. Court-appointed White lawyer S. Hawkins Dykes was aided by the the Civil Rights Congress (CRC) and their fund-raising efforts.

Although this move caused some tension with the NAACP, Ingram and her sons were able to get an appeal and their sentences were reduced to life in prison. National Committee to Free the Ingram Family, led by Mary Church Terrell, was instrumental in continuing to fight on behalf of the Ingram family and worked alongside the CRC and NAACP to ensure their freedom.

Working across class and color lines, the case was a rallying cry for women activists and attracted the attention of the media in the North. These organizations worked tirelessly to keep Ingram’s case alive in the minds of the public, even appealing to President Harry Truman to intervene at one point.

Finally in 1959, the Ingrams were granted parole and released. The case placed a highlight on the racist and divisive Jim Crow laws of the South and also galvanized African-American women to participate in civil rights activism. Ms. Ingram lived in Atlanta from the time of her release in prison until her passing in 1980.

[coinandcandle]

Airmed Deity Guide

Who is Airmed?

Airmed, also spelled Airmid is a member of the Tuatha Dé Danann and an Irish goddess with all of the knowledge of herbalism. She is mentioned in the Second Battle of Magh Tuiredh as she healed those who were injured in the battle. Airmed is one of the deities whose incantations was said to resurrect the dead when sung over the Well of Sláine.

Parents and Siblings

Her father is Dian Cecht, the god of medicine and healing

Her brother is Miach

Cu

Cethen

Cian

Étan the poet

Ochtriullach (Octriuil)

Lovers or Partners

None or not mentioned

Children

None or not mentioned

Epithets

None mentioned, though her name may be an epithet of a forgotten name itself

Notes

Following the death of her brother caused by their own father due to his jealousy over his son’s healing talents, Airmed goes to visit the grave of Miach. There she found 365 herbs and was taught their secrets to healing. She spread out her cloak and began to organize them but before she could finish the task her father found her. Jealous again of his child’s talents he picked up the cloak and scattered the herbs, leaving their sacred knowledge lost to history. Only Airmed remembers all of the herbalist knowledge.

The significance of the number 365 may have been as such: “one for each of his joints and sinews, one for each day of the year, one for each illness that ever had been or ever would be.” (Story Archeology)

Well of Sláine essentially translates to “Well of Health”

Airmed and Miach are both etymologically linked to measurements of grain or cereal. Airmed is more of a measurement and Miach is more of the thing being measured (Story Archeology).

In Old Irish, there were no distinctions made between herbs and vegetables and they were generally all considered “useful plants”.

This would make sense as Airmed’s story involves her organizing and counting these useful plants.

I HIGHLY suggest you look into Story Archeology because the hosts of the podcast go into detail about the etymology and possible meanings behind the story of Airmed.

Modern Deity Work

Keep in mind that due to the very little information left about Airmed, most of this modern deity work will be influenced by those who work with her in modern times.

Correspondences

Rocks/Stone/Crystals

Quartz, amethyst, opal, agate (moss agate), jasper, silver

Herbs/Plants

You could argue that all of them—or at least 365 of them—correspond to Airmed as she is an herbalist

Healing herbs specifically

Self Heal (prunella vulgaris)

Animals

Snakes (sometimes associated with healing as well as waters in Celtic mythology)

Symbol

Mortar and Pestle

Healing Wells

Offerings

Herbs, especially those native to Ireland

Donate to local medical facilities

Any of the above

Acts of Devotion

Learn Herbalism

Practice healing or medicine

Pay respects to those in medical careers

Volunteer at medical centers

Possibly looking into necromancy as she is known to bring the dead back to life (though this is a stretch)

References and Further Reading

Most of these are going to be UPG or similar and not based much in history but I’m trying to add as many as possible for those interested in further looking into this diety.

Airmid (Wiki)

Airmed the Celtic Goddess (Claudia Merill)

Airmid (Amino)

Mythical Women 04: The Story of Airmed (Story Archeology Podcast)

The Celtic Goddess Airmid (The Cottage Mystic)

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