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They are perverts and need to mind their business

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can’t believe this iconic moment hasnt shown up on my dash yet in light of today

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Every librarian watching today's Abbott Elementary

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Maude Abbott

Dr. Maude Abbott was born in 1868 in St. Andrews East, Quebec. Dr. Abbott graduated from McGill University, but was not allowed to study medicine there because of her gender. She ultimately received her medical degree from Bishop's College in 1894. Dr. Abbott is remembered for her contributions to the field of cardiology. She wrote about roughly 1,000 heart anomalies over the course of twenty years. Dr. Abbott's 1936 Book, Atlas of Congenital Cardiac Disease, paved the way for modern heart surgery. She also served as curator of McGill University's medical museum, where she devised a classification system for uncatalogued medical specimens.

Dr. Maude Abbott died in 1940 at the age of 72.

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Republicans are pro-control. Vote Democrat so everyone can have better benefits.

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QUIZ LADY (2023) dir. Jessica Yu

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Sonia Johnson

Women's rights activist Sonia Johnson was born in 1936 in Malad, Idaho. Johnson, an ardent support of the Equal Rights Amendment, founded Mormons for ERA in 1977. She denounced the LDS Church's opposition to the proposed amendment, and was excommunicated from the church in 1979. In 1982, Johnson went on a 37-day hunger strike at the Illinois statehouse in support of the ERA. She has written multiple books, including From Housewife to Heretic, Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation, and The SisterWitch Conspiracy.

Image source: Washington Secretary of State

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Jessica Yellin

Jessica Yellin was born in 1971 in Los Angeles, California. Yellin was the Chief White House correspondent for CNN and has interviewed President Barack Obama, President Bill Clinton, and President George HW Bush. She has won an Emmy Award, a Gracie Award, and a Peabody Award for her reporting. In 2019, Yellin published a novel, Savage News.

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Natalia Lafourcade

Singer and songwriter Natalia Lafourcade was born in 1984 in Mexico City. Lafourcade has won 17 Latin Grammy awards, the most of any female artist. Over a career spanning more than twenty years, she has had multiple platinum albums. In 2022, Lafourcade performed to a sold-out audience at Carnegie Hall.

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every so often im struck by the memory of one of my college professors getting very angry with our class (art history of pompeii 250) because when she excitedly detailed the ingenious roman invention of heated floors in bathhouses via hearths in small crawlspaces, we asked who was tending the fires. she said "oh, slaves i suppose. but that isnt the point". and we said that it actually very much was the point. she had just told us that in roman society there were dozens of people, maybe hundreds, who spent every day of their enslaved lives crawling in cramped, hot, smoky tunnels to light fires to warm pools of water (which they were not allowed to swim in). how could that not be the point?

she wanted us to focus on the art, on the innovation of heated plumbing, on the tiles and decorations of the bathhouses, and all we wanted to do was learn more about the people under the floors. and she didn't know anything more about that. in fact, she said she thought we were focusing too much on superfluous details.

it feels almost hokey to put too fine a point on the idea im getting at here but i will anyway: There are a lot of people who are still under the floors. all these beautiful, convenient, brilliant innovations of modern society (think fast fashion, chatgpt, uber, doordash) are still powered by people working in inhumane, untenable conditions.

the people who run these systems want you to focus on the good - who doesnt love warm water? - but if anything is going to improve or change in our lifetimes, you need to examine these things with an attentive, critical, and empathetic eye. and for fucks sake stop ordering from amazon

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In the early 70s Sesame Street was created with an eye towards educating poor, inner-city children for free, and became a massive hit with all children. In 2016, faced with going off the air forever after facing conservative efforts to destroy public broadcasting since basically its beginning, new episodes became a timed exclusive for premium cable network HBO. In 2022 HBO Max, newly merged with and taken over by reality TV channel Discovery, removed Sesame Street episodes and spin-offs from streaming as a tax write-off and scheme to avoid paying residuals.

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We will never be as hardcore as this 7 year old.

@katiecandraw Katie Cook

#feminism #feminist #young feminists

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#womens art #elina chauvet #red shoes #artwork #mexico #mexican artist #Mexican artwork

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[ID: a captioned screenshot of pam from the office, edited so that the caption reads: “And I feel anti-american in this 4th of july tonight.” end id]