Raging Pillows
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”.
Mary Two-Axe Earley Raging Feminist Pillow
by Abattoir - Féministe en tabarnak
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