Late Nights and Early Parades.

‘Trophy Wife Barbie’ Breaks Mocks Gender Stereotypes

South African artist Annelies Hofmeyr leverages Barbie to flip the script on beauty and gender stereotypes. Prints available here. 

 Excuse: Doesn’t feel good.  Comebacks:

Neither does sleeping alone

Maybe you should try the next size down

If you’re uncomfortable using condoms then let’s try something other than intercourse

Excuse: It spoils the mood Comebacks:

The mood will come back

So does your attitude

Excuse: It takes too long Comebacks: 

Then you need practice and there’s no time like the present

Let me help you put it on.

A condom can make sex last longer

We have all night. What’s the rush?

It’s worth the wait

Excuse: You won’t catch anything from me Comebacks:

I know I won’t, because either we use a condom or we aren’t having sex.

Yes, but you might catch something from me.

Excuse: Just this once it won’t matter Comebacks:

Then just this once I’ll have to say, ‘No.’

It only takes once.

A Swedish woman hitting a neo-Nazi protester with her handbag. The woman was reportedly a concentration camp survivor. [1985]

Volunteers learn how to fight fires at Pearl Harbor [c. 1941 - 1945]

Maud Wagner, the first well-known female tattoo artist in the U.S. [1907]

A 106-year old Armenian woman protecting her home with an AK-47. [1990]

Komako Kimura, a prominent Japanese suffragist at a march in New York. [October 23, 1917]

Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer of the Apollo Project, standing next to the code she wrote by hand that was used to take humanity to the moon. [1969]

Erika, a 15-year-old Hungarian fighter who fought for freedom against the Soviet Union. [October 1956]

Sarla Thakral, 21 years old, the first Indian woman to earn a pilot license. [1936]

Female pilots leaving their B-17, “Pistol Packin’ Mama” [c. 1941 - 1945]

The first basketball team from Smith college. [1902]

Filipino guerilla, Captain Nieves Fernandez, shows a US soldier how she killed Japanese soldiers during the occupation. [1944]

Afghani medical students. [1962]   (man, screw fundamentalism.)

A British sergeant training members of the ‘mum’s army’ Women’s Home Defence Corps during the Battle of Britain. [1940]

and just to wrap up…