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 …
And how do most women “celebrate” International Women’s Day? By working their butts off. Having said that, Lee Lord, head brewer at Narragansett Brewery, does seem to enjoy a high level of job satisfaction. Lord was very busy earlier today wrangling hoses, working on a new brew in honor of the day: Struggle Bun, a …
(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 …
[Update: The bill was not voted out of committee. Archambault voted no. The House bill is not quite dead though. WPRI has a comprehensive report: “Abortion bill rejected by RI Senate committee.”] Attention women of Rhode Island! Senate President Dominick Ruggerio stands between you and your reproductive rights. Get to the State House today to …
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(6.28) Eleven films from ten countries — the 6th annual Womanimation! Film Festival runs all day Saturday at the 95 Empire Black Box theater. What is Womanimation? As the name implies, it’s a festival showcasing acclaimed animated films created by women from around the world, now in its 6th year. From satire to drama, from …
10:00 am to 4:00 pm each day free and open to the public on the campus of Brown University! A roomful of vendors with booths chock full of vintage goodness! We’ll have men’s and women’s vintage clothing, accessories, boots, hats, gloves, bags, etc. We have vintage and repurposed original jewelry. We have books, vinyl records, …
If you loved us last year, you’ll love us TWICE as much this year as we added more vendors and a second day of VINTAGE! Saturday, November 10th and Sunday, November 11th, 10 – 4 each day! On the campus of Brown University and free and open to the public! We are all vintage and …
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Three leading contemporary Indian artists — Nalini Malani, Nilima Sheikh, and Chitra Ganesh — explore the political, religious, and cultural situations of women in India through a new exhibition at the David Winton Bell Gallery. Tradition, Trauma, Transformation: Representations of Women opens Saturday, March 26th, and runs through May 29th. Pictured here is a detail …
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The Hive Archive will host the LUNAFEST film festival and fundraiser on Friday, December 11, from 5-8PM at The Spot, 286 Thayer Street in Providence. Nine international short films by women filmmakers will be screened at the event. The Hive Archive will also present Hive Distinguished Women in the Arts awards to two local recipients …
By the way the Egyptian heiroglyph for woman was, guess what? The serpent. Then Madame Helena Blavatsky in the Theosophical Society said something. She
That is where we get the Priestess classes and the matriarchal powers coming from. The fact now that were keepers of the secrets. Innitators. Right?
And isn’t it interesting, scientists will not like this one, isn’t it interesting that women were the ones who took to that knowledge first?
This evening Brown’s Department of Africana Studies continues its post-election week run of free public events with contemporary Black intellectuals and artists. Shola Lynch, a young filmmaker who in 2004 completed a documentary on the legendary Shirley Chisholm, will be joined by Ray Watson of the Mt. Hope Neighborhood Association and renowned professor of Africana …
Promoting women playwrights since 1995, Perishable Theatre has chosen from 190 submissions the winners for the International Women’s Playwriting Festival October 2-November 2. All three groundbreaking playwrights will have their new works produced and fully staged at Perishable Theatre and are presented with performances by other local artists. Each performance will include a post show …
Something cool at Brown this Wednesday for Women’s History Month: “Women in the Labor Movement” 4:30pm on Wednesday, March 5 Petteruti Lounge in Faunce House 75 Waterman St. Providence, RI Featuring Roxana Rivera RI Director of SEIU Local 615 and workers from Brown Learn about the role of women in leading and joining the labor …