November’s Trailblazing Women and Events in Our History – 11-24 through 11-30

“In the event you’re a Black artist, you can paint a
wall of smiley faces, and somebody will
nonetheless ask you, ‘Why are you so offended?”
– Kara Walker, Black American
    artist and filmmaker

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WOW2 is a four-times-a-month sister weblog to This Week within the Battle on Ladies. This version covers tales from November 24 via November 30.

The subsequent installment of WOW2 might be on Saturday, December 3, 2022.

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“Flags are bits of coloured fabric
that governments use first to
shrink-wrap individuals’s brains
after which as ceremonial shrouds
to bury the lifeless.”
– Arundhati Roy, Indian writer,
screenwriter, activist for human
rights and the surroundings

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“This knotted dilemma lies on the middle
of girls’s growth. How can ladies
each enter and keep outdoors of, be educated
in after which attempt to change, what for millennia
has been a person’s world?”
― Carol Gilligan,  American psychologist,
professor of gender research, writer of
In a Totally different Voice

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The aim of WOW2 is to study and honor ladies of feat, together with many who’ve been ignored or marginalized in many of the historical past books, and to mark moments in ladies’s historical past. It additionally serves as a reference archive of girls’s historical past.

These trailblazers have so much to show us about persistence within the face of overwhelming odds. I hope you will see reclaiming our previous as a lot of an inspiration as I do.

THIS WEEK IN THE WAR ON WOMEN
will put up shortly, so you’ll want to go there subsequent, and
compensate for the newest dispatches from the frontlines.