Monochrome photograph featuring a crowd of woman sitting on grass a woman near the front holds a placard with writing 'Eve was framed'
Women's liberation protest sign, New York, August 26, 1970. Tens of thousands of women marched along Fifth Avenue to Bryant Park to demand equal opportunity in employment and society #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth
Two white women in uniforms with jackets, caps, boots and trousers sitting beside a truck while knitting
Women of the Free French ambulance corps, WW2, knitting while awaiting their next call on the Italian front #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth
So pretty!!😍
Monochrome photograph featuring a group of women in saris each individually hugging a tree in a forest.
Chipko movement ("to hug" in Hindi) non-violent women-led, forest conservation movement, 1970s, of India (Uttarakhand). Participants hugged trees to prevent loggers from cutting them down, successfully preventing massive deforestation. Where "tree huggers' originated #WomensHistoryMonth
Black and white print featuring an older white woman half in shadow sitting with one hand on her knee the other at her face, she looks left
Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945), German Expressionist artist, excelled in printmaking, enabling her to stress the stoicism, strength and emotions of her subjects. Her self-portrait, 1924 is a woodcut #WomensArt
Infographic titled “Viruses or Bacteria: What’s got you sick?” from CDC’s “Be Antibiotics Aware: Smart Use, Best Care” campaign. A table lists common respiratory infections, their usual cause (virus, virus or bacteria, or bacteria), and whether antibiotics are needed. Rows show: Common cold/runny nose — Virus — Antibiotics: No Sore throat (except strep) — Virus — No COVID-19 — Virus — No Flu — Virus — No Bronchitis/chest cold (in otherwise healthy children and adults) — Virus or bacteria — No (note: antibiotics don’t help in these cases) Middle ear infection — Virus or bacteria — Maybe Sinus infection — Virus or bacteria — Maybe Strep throat — Bacteria — Yes Whooping cough — Bacteria — Yes A note states that antiviral drugs are available for some viral infections such as COVID-19 or flu, and that antibiotics do not help bronchitis in otherwise healthy people. The bottom directs viewers to www.cdc.gov/antibiotic-use for more information.
💊 Learn more about antibiotic prescribing and use in the United States at www.cdc.gov/antibiotic-use
Photo of a painting on a purple wall in an ornate gold frame, the work is of an arrangement of flowers against a dark background
Anna Ruysch (1666-1754)Dutch Golden Age flower painter, younger sister of more well known painter Rachel Ruysch. Women painters became expert flower paintes as they were not allowed in academies to study human models and anatomy #WomensHistoryMonth
Yuko Shimizu, a New York based award-winning Japanese illustrator #WomensArt #Tuesday
Knitting a lacy shawl hand painted in multicolored jewel tones.
Glass pane with inserts of different coloured and patterned circular glass pieces
US artist Nikki Root recycles vintage and modern bottles and glassware to create stained glass windows #WomensArt
White standing doll facing forwards with blonde hair tied back wearing a dark top and matching trousers
Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899), French painter, obtained a police permit to wear "men's clothes' as expected female fashions were so restrictive. She was so popular that girls were given dolls dressed in trousers to mimic Rosa’s unconventional style #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth
Embroidery piece with cental red flower motif surrounded by a patterned border in pink orange black and green on a white background
Yusufzai Pathan silk embroidery traditionally created by tribal women of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, and eastern Afghanistan #womensart
"We have to create an art for liberation and for life. .."
-Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012)
US artist
#InternationalWomensDay
"I found myself, I made myself, and I said what I had to say.”
- Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938)
French artist
#InternationalWomensDay
Serial starter all the way
White Poppy against a blue background
'Poppy' c.1852 by Anna Atkins, UK pioneer in botany and photography whose photographs created by the cyanotype process were the first ever to be published #womensart #WomensHistoryMonth
9/ Bottom line: Clinicians aren’t vaccinating kids to make money. They’re doing it because vaccines prevent severe disease, even in a system that often makes prevention financially hard to sustain.
Read more: yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/do-clinici...
The shape of Iran with the words NO WAR WITH IRAN over it
The attacks on Iran, including one which killed dozens at a school for girls, are beyond horrific. End the US/Israel war machine now!
Print of a sitting figure, crossed legged on the floor, with a child in their arms
Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), German artist who worked with painting, printmaking and sculpture and was known for her self portraits and depictions of the effects of poverty, hunger and war on the working classes #womensart
Embroidery on a turquoise background with images of a goldfish, flowers and circular bands in white leading to two skull like Japanese heads
Haunted Pond, 2015 by Turkish textile artist Irem Yazici who creates embroideries that often show magical, surreal worlds #womensart
Nicole Tersigni, a comedy writer who created funny images based on 'mansplaining' and patronising comments using classical art, which went viral #WomensArt
Three monochrome photographs, the top one features the head and shoulders of a white woman with short dark hair facing forwards looking out, the other photos are of a stylish metal teapot and coffee pot
Marianne Brandt (1893-1983), designer from the Bauhaus school, head of the Bauhaus Metal Workshop in 1927, pioneer of modern design #WomensArt
Cubicle style abstract painting in multicolours with central circular form
Ukrainian-born French artist Sonia Delaunay, Electric prisms, 1914 vía #womensart
Ceramic vessel in black with white dots and ridges coming from the small neck in a swirling pattern all on a white surface
Kitamura Junko, Japanese ceramics artist #womensart
💉 Where can you find accurate vaccine information?💉
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP-...
Other medical societies: cmss.org/programs-and...
CIDRAP for in-depth evidence review: vaxintegrity.cidrap.umn.edu/evidence-rev...
Durham Museum, Joslyn Art Museum
A model of the human brain knitted to scale and in different colours.
“A scientifically accurate hand-knit sculpture of the human bfain by Dr. Karen Norberg.” #knitting 🧶
www.thisiscolossal.com/2018/12/scie...
Even as Rev. Jesse Jackson has died, his afterlife has begun through us. Through our undying struggle against racism. Through our eternal organizing of rainbow coalitions against resurgent ethnostates. Through our everlasting striving to “Keep Hope Alive!” Rest peacefully, Rev. Jackson. 🕊️💔
Knitting beings comfort because we are in the twilight zone. This can’t be our reality right now #knitsky
Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman sitting on a step in a doorway, wearing a light coloured jacket and trousers
Katharine Hepburn (1907- 2003), Hollywood actress and pioneer in female style, who helped popularise women's trouser wearing, relating to independent womanhood #WomensArt
