(8.11) The RI International Film Festival will feature the works of four female cinematic legends from the silent film era this Friday evening at PPAC. This unique retrospective will highlight the works of Lois Weber, Alice Guy, Mabel Normand, and Lotte Reiniger. The entire program runs roughly 99 minutes. Go here for tickets to Silent …
(6.17) Join the Rhode Island Historical Society and the Museum of Natural History and Planetarium for a day of activities as we celebrate Sally Ride’s legacy as an astronaut, physicist, educator, and advocate for young people. Dr. Sally K. Ride became a national icon of achievement in science and space on June 18, 1983, when …
This living statue of The Independent Woman arrived at Kennedy Plaza this afternoon in honor of International Women’s Day, courtesy of the Womxn Project Education Fund. Here is the history behind the project. In their original 1895 renderings, State House architects McKim, Mead and White sketched a female figure atop the building’s dome. The figure …
(2.9) If football is not your thing, this might be a good weekend for getting out of the house. Playing now at the Avon, “Women Talking” follows a group of women in an isolated religious colony as they struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony’s men. Based …
Today we celebrate the women of World War II. They served to safeguard their homeland against fascists and military dictators. They fought to defend the United States, a nation of laws, with the understanding that upon their return they — and their daughters and all their descendants — would be guaranteed equal protection under those …
Seen here is ‘Queen Elizabeth II in dress uniform’ one of the more than 5,000 miniature lead soldiers and figurines on display on the third floor of the John Hay Library at Brown University. I decided to focus on the Queen’s early life since she proved her mettle at such a young age. And she …
Tomboy, the new exhibition opening Friday at the Providence Public Library, provides an overdue cultural examination of this singular way of being female in the world. There is no male counterpart. Appearing first in the 1590s, the term “tomboy” was defined as a “wild, romping girl, who acts like a spirited boy”; or “strumpet, bold …
(3.9) Narragansett Brewery made history last year when, upon its Rhode Island homecoming, it named Lee Lord as its first female head brewer. Lord stated at the time, “I’m beyond thrilled to join Narragansett and help reestablish the brand’s Rhode Island brewing tradition here in Providence.” From the ProJo: Her career began in 2010 at …
Once a year we hold International Women’s Day (offer not available in Texas) while the remaining 364 days of the year are devoted all the frustrated old men who do everything in their power to strip women of basic human rights and autonomy over their lives. So shape up men — we can only be …
(10.2) And why did Janeane Garofalo go to Providence College? “It was the only school that accepted me.” But she stuck with it, graduating in 1986 with degrees in History and American Studies. (There is no reason to believe that Ms. Garofalo will be in attendance this Saturday.) And according to Wiki: While studying history …
The Betsey Williams Cottage in Roger Williams Park is just past the Casino as one enters from the Elmwood Avenue side. You can’t miss it. In 2018 — having been shuttered for decades — the building was restored and reopened to the public. In the 1773 cottage that today sits beneath a massive sycamore tree, …
As we turn the page on the calendar, who could better represent both Black History Month and Women’s History Month than Christiana Carteaux Bannister. Abolitionist, entrepreneur, and patron of the arts, Christiana Bannister was born in Rhode Island’s South County sometime between 1820 and 1822. Bannister met her husband, noted American artist Edward Bannister, in …
This Valentine goes out to all the amazing Black women whose efforts may very well have saved this democracy. And that is not hyperbole. First up is Stacey Abrams of course. It is no exaggeration to say that her tireless work to flip Georgia for the Democrats and flip the Senate towards sanity may have …
We were given about one nanosecond for celebrating the critical November senate victory in Georgia before the terrible events of January 6th consumed the news and our attention. But we still want to celebrate and thank Stacey Abrams and all the other great people at Fair Fight for delivering this entire country from the intransigent, …
(10.19) The Providence Public Library will be hosting a virtual conversation this Monday with Charlotte Mangin, creator and director of UNLADYLIKE2020, a national video project highlighting trailblazing women from history whose stories had been forgotten. Motion graphics animator and artistic director Joel Orloff (Providence’s own) will also take part. Rhode Island women featured in the …
What can we possibly add to the outpouring of praise for the life and career of Associate Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg? A trailblazer and lodestar in the realm of women’s rights, she must have been heartened by the victories in the 2018 midterms and last month’s primaries. For it is women, the beneficiaries …