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Sutematsu Oyama (1860-1919): Japan’s First College-Educated Woman

Full entry (with footnotes) here. Patreon here. Art notes behind the cut.

It’s also worth noting that Daughters covers Sutematsu, Ume, and Shige (although it’s mostly the Sutematsu show until she gets married, and then starts following Ume - Shige is a side character who basically settles down and has a family after her time in the US). The full narrative of their lives is somewhat less tragic, especially when you cover all of their day-to-day experiences over a period of years - but I would argue, it’s not much less tragic. They were definitely aliens in their own country.

And you find fault with us?

A mother who tortured her children the way she’s tortured us isn’t fit to bear the title “mother”. A mother who feeds and then starves, a mother who gives birth and then slaughters…

Poche Posh is the first and only store where all the clothes have pockets

Poche Posh was created by me (Jessica) and my best friend Visha who noticed that most of our clothes didn’t have pockets. After seeing years of Tumblr complaints, and being excited every time our clothes had pockets, we decided to create Poche Posh. All the clothes have pockets. Yes - all of them!

Thank you all so much, this entire company was inspired by the people of Tumblr (I have another account, and have been on the site for 6 years, and after seeing people constantly talk about pockets I knew that something had to be done <3