Babes With Blades West

The West Coast arm of Chicago's Babes With Blades Theatre Company. Have sword will travel. Creating theatre and film works that highlight martial womxn.

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

The Escape,1940
by Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka.
Painted just after the artist fled to the US, it evokes the hardships of war on the civilians of Europe #WomensArt

[Rebellious Magazine @RebelliousMag]

Their Ancestors Were Pillars of Civil Rights Movements. Now, They're Fighting Historical Erasure https://t.co/1eig5WM057 by #IdaBWells descendant @MichelleDuster
Descendants of Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Harriet Tubman

Duster in NPR story:
https://t.co/44pmwfkZXM

[Judith Lindbergh @JudithLindbergh]

#Boston #booklovers, July 2-7PM @PorterSquareBooks talking #AKMARALnovel w @IlyseRobbins
#bostonbooks #bostonbookevents #cambridgemassachusetts #portersquarebooks #portersquare #akmaral #FierceFemales #literaryfiction #historicalnovels #grubstreet #booktalk @RegalHouse1

[Rebellious Magazine @RebelliousMag]

Mississippi as My Godmotherland https://t.co/r4KvgLpVLJ by #IdaBWells descendant @MichelleDuster

#JacksonMississippi
#history #family #legacy #Chicago #Mississippi
#MSCivilRightsMuseum
@MDAH_Official

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

From the 'Shared Sky' exhibition, 'Jupiter and Ten Moons' by Indigenous Australian artist Barbara Merritt #WomensArt

[Master@Arms @LondonLongsword]

Sickles because sickles be awesome!

#londonlongswordacademy #londonlongswordfamily #sickle #hema #london #fencing #learnswordfighting #paulushectormair

[Master@Arms @LondonLongsword]

It’s all great till someone stabs you in the D.
Then it’s great AND someone has stabbed you in the D.😊 A quiet Sidesword session, but that means plenty of time to play with (almost everyone).

#londonlongswordacademy #londonlongswordfamily #learnswordfighting #sidesword

[Unchained At Last @UnchainedAtLast]

As #SexualAssaultAwarenessMonth comes to a close, remember that in a #ForcedMarriage, individuals are often forced to have unprotected marital sex – a lifetime of rape, which inevitably leads to #ForcedParenthood. Learn more: https://t.co/kkvehXRkYj 📷: @jenkiaba

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1931, Journalist, educator and civil rights leader, Ida B. Wells passed away, age 68.

She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), she dedicated her life to combating prejudice and violence.

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

'Self-Organization' by Courtney Brown, metal art bronze octopus and Underwood typewriter #WomensArt

[34 Circe @34Circe]

★ Just published a new episode of 34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History: Professor Walter Penrose - Wonder Woman (2017) and the Amazons. Listen: https://t.co/d0mmK7ofzG

[Master@Arms @LondonLongsword]

A cold morning, but a great morning of partisan, friendship, hard training and natter.
#hema #fencing #partisan #polearms #silhouette #achillemarozzo #learnswordfighting #joachimmeyer #londonlongswordacademy #londonlongswordfamily partisan by BlueDog Forge

[IndieWire @IndieWire]

Olivia Colman Shares Thoughts on Gender Pay Disparity in Hollywood: ‘If I Was Oliver Colman, I’d Be Earning a F*ck of a Lot More’ https://t.co/0i3HuqA4nv

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Traditional embroidery design from the Greek island of Crete #womensart

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

'Cat in a Basket' linocut by contemporary UK printmaker and artist Vanessa Lubach #WomensArt

[Max Dashu @MaxDashu]

Sentainne the Cailleach mask.
We need the fierce old women now more than ever.
I made her from papiermaché in 1975, painted and glazed. Respect women. Defend Mother Earth.
Up the rebels!

[34 Circe @34Circe]

https://t.co/y5KVA1vZGy

[Master@Arms @LondonLongsword]

Longsword!
In the Crystal Palace class😊
Then, freeplay to ease the soul.

#londonlongswordacademy #londonlongswordfamily #learnswordfighting #hema #fencing #london #longsword #liechtenauer #joachimmeyer #achillemarozzo #crystalpalace

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Our Voices Are Still Singing on the Margins, 2019 by Aleah Chapin, artist who celebrates her models' aging bodies #WomensArt

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

An annual event, Paddlebuard witches Oregon US #WomensArt
(Photo D.Caslick) #Halloween #Samhain