WE'RE DROPPING LIKE FLIES

Ask me who these women were.

Hughes’ father was beaten nearly to death by the KKK when she was a kid, and what does she do?

Become an activist to try and stop that from happening to other people. She raised money to bail civil rights protesters out of jail.

She helped women get out of abusive situations by providing shelter for them until they got on their feet.

She founded an agency that helped women get to work without having to leave their children alone, because childcare in the 1970s? Not really a thing.

In fact, a famous feminist line in the 70s was “every housewife is one man away from welfare.”

Then she teamed up with Steinman to found the Women’s Action Alliance, which created the first battered women’s shelters in history. 

They attacked women’s rights issues through boots on the ground activism, problem solving, and communication.

They stomped over barriers of race and class to meet women where they were: mostly mothers who wanted better for themselves and their children.

These are women are who I always wanted to be.

Amandla Stenberg accepts the Young Gifted and Black Award at Black Girls Rock

Surreal Aquarium Scenes, Kim Keever

Kim Keever creates large-scale photographs that look like landscape paintings. The effect is created by constructing miniature topographies in a 200-gallon tank.

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ZAYN MALIK for BILLBOARD

“I’m incredibly disciplined. I realized I can push myself through situations I might not necessarily want to do, but can overcome by being in the moment. No matter what, I can smile and do whatever I got to do.”