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It is no secret how Bisexual individuals are portrayed in the media. Often the image is of someone who is sexually promiscuous, confused, greedy, or experimenting. They often don’t call themselves Bisexual.

I'm infuriated. I found out she died not long after due to how advanced it was. Your chances of remission decrease as the cancer progresses. I honestly cried because of how many women suffer and die because of misogyny within health care. I always call out people's subtle misogyny at work but I've handled them far too delicately. I'm vowing to be even more blunt when calling them out because this is SO unacceptable and so pervasive.

— Moderata Fonte, pseudonym of Modesta Pozzo (1555-1592). She was an Italian writer from Venice who wrote religious and romantic poetry. Modesta is best known, however, for the posthumously published The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men (via hereticnarrative)

Let us not forget the greatest real-life bard of all time.

If you want more details about Julie d’Aubigny, aka Madame de Maupin, and you speak Spanish, there is this twitter thread that gives all the information above and more. Warning, though, it uses quite a lot of slang.

Ladies who rode: Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm, who rode in local trials and endurance events in the 1910s, before heading off to Belgium in 1914 (with their motorcycles) to set up an independent triage station a few hundred metres from the front lines.  Great photos of the ladies with their machines here: https://thevintagent.com/2018/11/11/the-angels-of-pervyse/

“I am just too much.”

Medium: Plain weave wool (broadcloth), plain weave silk trim and facing.

Ultimate vintage boot score 🖤🥀

I have a soft spot in my heart for the last one because it plays on the idea of “undesirable” people, a tall masculine woman and a shy effeminate man, finding each other but instead of mocking them depicts it as sweet that she could finally ask him because he was too shy and insecure to ask her.

Anyway, now I’m reading and this quote speaks to exactly what I was thinking: “Desire, the energy that [Audre] Lorde names as “the erotic,” is incredibly powerful–powerful enough to lead people to behavior that might result in consequences ranging from ostracization to violence. It is important to attend to desire because too often sex is examined as though no feelings are involved.“ (Rosamond S. King, “Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination,” 2014)

Eckert and Ginet, Language and Gender

Katharine Hepburn for A Woman Rebels, 1936

THE CURSE OF QUON GWON (1917) dir. Marion E. Wong “The first feature film made with an all-Chinese American cast and an all-Chinese American company, The Curse of Quon Gwon was written and directed by Marion E. Wong at her own Mandarin Film Company, based in Oakland, California. Offering an important counterpoint to racist depictions of Asian characters in other films of the period, the film explores western influence on traditional Chinese society and amongst Chinese American communities, suggesting Wong’s keen awareness of early twentieth-century transnational identity, as film scholar Jenny Kwok Wah Lau has observed. Marion, who was in her early twenties at the time, also played the film’s villainess. Nearly all the actors in the movie are family members and friends. The leading role of the heroine was played by Marion’s sister-in-law, Violet Wong. Family members were also involved in other aspects of the film’s production, including costumes and finance. Produced in 1916-1917, The Curse of Quon Gwon is the earliest example of Chinese American independent film known to exist today.”

Today’s installment of  why“but it has always been like this!” is a bullshit argument: @nitratediva​ lays down the law about the role of women in early Hollywood