Raging Socks
Description: This angry plant has something to say about your gardening skills! Featuring the quote "What the Fucculent", these items make a funny gift for succulents and gardening lovers to wear during birthdays, out in the garden with friends or just on a casual day with your cat or dog.
Description: This angry plant has something to say about your gardening skills! Featuring the quote "What the Fucculent", these items make a funny gift for succulents and gardening lovers to wear during birthdays, out in the garden with friends or just on a casual day with your cat or dog.
Description: Stamáta Revíthi (1866-?) is a Greek long-distance runner who is credited with running a marathon during the 1896 Olympic Games in Athens, without being allowed to take part in the official men's race. Although she completed the marathon in around 5 hours and 30 minutes and found witnesses to attest to her performance, she was not allowed to enter the Panathinaiko stadium to cross the finish line. According to contemporary sources, a second woman, named Melpomene, also took part in the marathon. There is some debate among Olympic historians as to whether Revíthi and Melpomène are the same person. In Greek mythology, Melpomene is the Muse of Tragedy when associated with Dionysus. She is depicted here in a work by Edward Simmons.
Description: Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) was an investigative journalist, social worker and pioneering activist against racist violence and white supremacy in the United States. Born a slave, then freed, she was in turn a journalist, schoolteacher, editorial writer, lecturer, election candidate, social worker and probation officer. After the lynching of three friends by a "mob" in 1882, she traveled the U.S. and U.K. describing the atrocities of racist violence. Wells died on March 25, 1931 in Chicago. In 2020, she was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence committed against African-American people.
Description: Mary Two-Axe Earley (1911-1996) is a Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) woman born on the Kahnawà:ke reserve, and a pioneer of the indigenous women's movement in Canada. She devoted most of her life to fighting the injustices of the "Indian Act" against registered women, which deprived them of their rights when they married non-indigenous men. After a battle lasting nearly 30 years, Mary Two-Axe Earley's efforts were finally rewarded: the government amended the "Indian Act" in 1985, and thousands of women regained their status and rights. Mary Two-Axe Earley declared: "After all these years, I can once again live on my reserve, own property, die and be buried with my people”.
