Poem by aVeryGoodTyrone as displayed at a recent CA protest against Senator Weiner. LOVE it!

This is a whole new level of academic insanity! Not ONE of my friends of African descent would agree with these assertions, supposedly made on their behalf! I’ve written eight articles about the emergence of Critical Race Theory in the humane movement and the threat it poses to animals...In recent books and journal articles, for example, CRT professors: Defend dogfighters like Michael Vick, arguing that they should avoid prosecution because they are “victims” of “white cis heteropatriarchy” that enables “toxic masculinities”; Criticize placing dogs who survive dog fighting in caring, family homes because “they were effectively segregated from Blackness”; Call for permitting dogs to be left on chains 24/7 so as not to “criminalize people of color who have pets”; Argue that shelters should kill animals or leave them on the streets instead of rescuing and placing them in family homes so as not to promote “settler-colonial and racist dynamics of land allocation”; Defend backyard breeding as promoting “queer affiliations”; Criticize the use of technology, like wheelchairs, to give disabled animals mobility, claiming it “erases” disabled people; Promote defunding the police and releasing all prisoners convicted of animal neglect and abuse from incarceration, even in cases of torture and killing, because anti-cruelty laws are “racist” and support the “carceral” state; Advocate for “pansexual” relations with animals — the rape of dogs, horses, and others — in the name of “queering the human-animal bond.”‘Critical Race Theory’ Wants to Upend a Century of Progress in Animal Protection by Nathan Winograd Race and gender professors have called for the neglect, abuse, rape, and killing of animals. And some ‘animal protection’ groups are promoting their books and modifying policies accordingly.Read on Substack

Title is all wrong - should read "Photographer Alice Austen was the LESBIAN Star of the Gilded Age"! Though her father abandoned her mother when she was an infant, Austen enjoyed a luxurious lifestyle with extended family in their home called Clear Comfort, overlooking the coastline of the New York City borough of Staten Island. She perfected imagery of her natural surroundings, social doings and “the sporting society set” in a darkroom fashioned from a closet. Her photos serve as a portal to the Gilded Age, with images of the annual regatta, boathouse bathers, charity balls and lawn tennis, a sport newly open to women who were too restricted by corsets to actually run for the ball. When cycling took off, so did Austen, similarly constrained by long skirts that could catch in the spokes; even so, with heavy camera equipment mounted on her bicycle, she ferried to Manhattan, where she famously documented turn-of-the-century urban life, enshrining the likes of street sweepers, rag pickers, egg sellers and messengers to gelatin print — producing her 1896 “Street Types of New York” portfolio. “She created clubs with these new activities that women were able to do, unchaperoned by men — and they were safe spaces for her and her circle of women friends who were, many of them lesbian, able to be together and have fun and really celebrate,” Munro said. “There was also a certain amount of freedom in the 1880s and 1890s, because women weren’t yet considered to even have a sexuality … so they weren’t even suspected of this kind of perceived bad behavior.” #WomenPhotographers #WomensArt #WomensCreativity

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Photographer Alice Austen was the queer star of the Gilded Age

Austen broke from convention to capture New York City street life through a Victorian lens — and to share 55 years with her partner, Gertrude Tate.

(Hope no one here takes this the wrong way...) #FridayFunnies

Firstly they “uninvited” a feminist legend who has just released a book. Sheila Jeffreys had been effectively banned from Filia and so she set up an alternative event. The banishment was a childish act from an organisation which clearly underestimated how adored Sheila is. Hundreds of women signed up and it became a “must see” very quickly. The event was a great success and Sheila gave everyone free booze and laughter. Legends are like that. Filia’s problems intensified on Saturday when “trans” activist blokes and pro-Palestinian feminists joined together to shout at women going to and from lunch. “No no! That isn’t what happened! We were not with the TRA!” came the denials. People were rightly annoyed about this offensive display and voiced it. It was a vain and pointless political posturing, intended solely to intimidate Jewish attendees who could not exit the building without walking into this giddily hateful lot. You could hear it from inside the venue too. Intimidation and harassment such as this had been outlawed a few days earlier by Filia in an email. Many of the demonstrators were on the panels of Filia. Filia bear direct responsibility for them therefore or they should have moved this bollocks further away at the very least. Unless they condone them doing this because their politics align. Don’t ask security. They were all taking the bins out or something. In their absence women took to the stage to dance. A Jewish elder was surrounded by rabid Palestinian activists jabbing flags at her and waving Keffiyehs towards the crowd aggressively. It got massively out of control, other women rushed the stage to help her and try to stop the offensive “free free Palestine” chanting with flags which was strangely at odds with Aretha Franklin’s lyrics to “respect”. I was one of the women grabbing down the flags to stop the offensive bullshit. This was not dancing and it could easily have turned into something much worse given some of the statements that have been made by those women. Filia 2025 by Jean Hatchet if you weren't banned were you really there at all?Read on Substack

This is just amazing - several of my favorite women gathered together in Brighton: Lierre Keith, Kara Dansky, Sheila Jeffreys, Elizabeth Miller & Jo Brew. Just love these WDI videos!

“Tired of ALL Gender”, Preeti Pathak, Acrylic, Marker, Ink, 2025 #WomensArt #WomensCreativity