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Feminism
Remembering Maya Angelou 1928 - 2014
What is Feminism?
‘The advocacy of women’s rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes.’ OED
Feminists are All the Same
Feminists Hate Men
Feminists are Angry
Feminists are Unattractive
Feminists are Whiny
Feminists Hate Sex
Feminists are All Lesbians
Feminists are All Pro-Choice
Feminists Don't Respect Stay-at-Home Mothers
‘So here is the quick way of working out if you're a feminist. Put your hand in your pants.
a) Do you have a vagina? Andb) Do you want to be in charge of it?
If you said 'yes' to both, then congratulations! You're a feminist.”’― Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman
Caitlin Moran’s Definitions of Feminism
‘Because the purpose of feminism isn’t to make a particular type of woman. The idea that there are inherently wrong and inherently right “types” of women is what’s screwed feminism for so long — this belief that “we” wouldn’t accept slaggy birds, dim birds, birds that bitch, birds that hire cleaners, birds that stay at home with their kids, birds that have pink Mini Metros with POWERED BY FAIRY DUST! bumper stickers, birds in burkas or birds that like to pretend, in their heads, that they’re married to Zach Braff from Scrubs. You know what? Feminism will have all of you.
What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy and smug they might be.
Are you a feminist? Hahaha. Of course you are.’― Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman
Maya AngelouBorn 4th April, 1928Died 28th May 2014
poet,playwright, film-maker,journalist,editor, lyricist, teacher, singer, dancer, black activist,professor, holder of some 50 honorary degrees
The first volume of Maya Angelou’s
Autobiography up to age 17
Published in 1969
Gather Together in My Name (1974): 1944–1948
Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (1976): 1949–1955
The Heart of a Woman (1981): 1957–1962
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986): 1962–1965
A Song Flung Up to Heaven (2002): 1965–1968
Mom & Me & Mom (2013)
In 1993, Angelou recited her poem ‘On the Pulse of Morning’ at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton
2010: Barak Obama presented Maya Angelou with the Presidential Medal of Freedom
