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Always share the good news...

Reading this spoke to me today as I #AmWriting on planetary preservation... a good reminder for current times and crises.

Cowards at #Pixar capitulating to fascist hate and intolerance.

#Homophobia

Black and white photo of a woman marching and smiling as she holds a sign that says, "Dear Patriarchy, Your Time Is Up!" Women's March, 2018. Image credit: Nancy Forde. All rights reserved. nancyforde.com.

Also wishing a special #InternationalWomensDay to all Trans women out there today.

Remember:
#WomensRightsAreHumanRights
#TransWomenAreWomen
#TransRightsAreHumanRights

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Here's a photograph I made from Women's March 2018:
"Dear Patriarchy, Your Time Is Up!"

❤️✨

Lá Idirnáisiúnta na mBan

(Griangraf: P Ní Mhurchú)

This #InternationalWomensDay, my heart is heavy thinking of the women and girls carrying on in the middle of war, the women and girls whose targeting no one will be held to account for, the women and girls who are disproportionately impacted, yet systematically left out.

Amazing, Lia. So much handiwork. Hugs and solidarity with you.

An outline of a naked woman is embroidered on linen in the same bone white colour as the linen. She stands legs together, her right hand covering her groin, her left hand, palm up, extended slightly to her side. She looks to the right. Her entire body except for her belly is covered in intricate markings representing different neurological sensations. Her face is a mask of green lines, feathery grey lines cover her shoulders and chest. There is a thick band of intricate burgundy stitching around her waist. Her forearms and hands are covered in thick blue undulant lines. Her right leg has bands of burgundy along the muscles, with small dots around them. Her inner left leg has a thick line of blue running up it, with thin branches spreading towards her outer leg.

For this #InternationalWomensDay I’m sharing a symptomatology #embroidery, body map (2016), in which I stitched my #MECFS symptoms freehand over a few months. ME/CFS affects mostly women, and the symptoms are often ignored or not taken seriously because of medical misogyny.

#SciArt

"mutilization" 🙄🤦🏻‍♀️
#TransRightsAreHumanRights

My mother kissing my child's forehead. 2010. Photo credit: Nancy Forde. All rights reserved.

My mother at seventeen. Photographed in Dublin, Ireland. Photographer unknown. Dublin, Ireland. 1950.

My mother laughing and playing with my child around Christmastime in 2010. I love the joy in this. They are both laughing and smiling and she holds my child's wee arm. My kid has inherited her blue eyes. Photo credit: Nancy Forde. All rights reserved.

My mother and me at a Mother's Day Brunch where my sisters and I gathered for afternoon tea to celebrate her. 2007. Photo credit: my sister.

Happy #InternationalWomensDay to all women everywhere, but especially to the woman who has inspired my own feminism: my amazing mother. I'm so grateful to her. She's the reason I am the woman I have grown to become. I love you, my Mamaí. 💗

Resharing for the day that's in it... #IWD #IWD2026

Image of hand-drawn cartoon of twenty frames called "My Wife Doesn't Work" created by See Red Women's Workshop Collective in 1976. Itnw hangs in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Frame 1: 6 AM woman approaching baby in crib. Frame 2: 7 AM woman feeding family breakfast. Frame 3: 8 AM toddler holding legs/dress of woman standing at sink washing dishes. Frame 4: 9 AM women pushing strollers waving to each other on street. Frame 5: 10 AM woman doing laundry in public laundromat. Frame 6: 11 AM woman exiting grocery store holding baby and groceries. Frame 7: Noon woman feeding baby in highchair at home. Frame 8: 1 PM two men chatting. One says to the other, "my wife doesn't work." Frame 9: 2 PM woman holding broom sweeping kitchen. Frame 10: 3 PM woman ironing while baby plays at couch. Frame 11: 4 PM woman sitting under tree watching children play outdoors. Frame 12: 5 PM toddler holding woman's legs while she stands cooking at stove. Frame 13: 6 PM woman feeding baby in highchair, again. Frame 14: 6:30 PM woman carrying baby to crib to put to bed. Frame 15: 7 PM woman cooking alone at stove. Frame 16: 8 PM woman feeding rest of family. Frame 17: 9 PM woman standing alone at sink washing dishes. Frame 18: 10 PM woman knitting while spouse watches TV with his feet up. Frame 19: 11 PM woman snuggling spouse in bed. Frame 20: 6 AM 6 AM woman approaching baby in crib. (The cycle begins again.)

A warm #InternationalWomensDay to all women out there, whether moms or not, whose labour remains largely invisible and/or isn't properly recognized/valued/compensated.

I see you! Special love to my wee Irish Mam today.❤️

Image: "My Wife Doesn't Work."
See Red Women's Collective, V&A Museum. 1976.

#VaccinationsSaveLives
#ScienceIsReal

Cheers, Jason! 🙌🏻🙏🏻

Visual music.✨

Excellent. 💚

RIP, sir.

Happy 100th!!
🎉✨🌲🪵🌿🌳🍄🍄‍🟫🌱

Thanks! Give yourself and everyone in WR a hug from us! ✨

These are war crimes. They must be held accountable in a court of law. Netanyahu and Trump are warmongers and war criminals. They are also guilty of Crimes Against Humanity. They must be stopped and must face their crimes.

So disturbing to witness real, live, actual journalism crumble before your eyes. Not only disturbing, soul-destroying, but dangerously (imo, criminally) irresponsible.

‘The camera is my weapon of choice’: Gordon Parks’ era-defining shots of segregation – and those who defied it The visionary photographer captured the ugliness of racism in America, as well as the strength and dignity of those who opposed it – from cleaners in the corridors of power to Martin Luther King Jr pr...

A great photographer (incidentally, director of the game-changing 1971 Blaxploitation film SHAFT as well); if I were in London I would visit this expo for sure.

I cannot help but agree.

Thanks, Ann. Painkillers will hopefully help tho they told me they'd make me sleepy. That's not really happening. They only seem to muffle the pain slightly. As my wee Irish mother would say, "If you were a horse, they'd shoot ye."

o Jules. Just had cast removed from right arm in Jan. Now it's the left. Feel like massive eejit. Outdoors walking home Tue aft. Missed footing on 1st step, broke fall with my hand on 2nd step, knee slammed into 1st step. Mount Olivet Cemetery. Pretty sure screaming woke (some of) the dead. (RIP.)🤦🏻‍♀️

One of my all time faves. Clumsily broke another bone this week. On some powerful painkillers so tucking in early tonight.

G'night from Nova Scotia with love.

“Almost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between seven and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern Iran’s Minab at the time.“

A double-tap strike on little girls at school.

For Hegseth, a war crime is a feature not a bug.

there in spirit!