Tag: women
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1958 Article Titled ‘129 Ways to Get a Husband’ Shows How Much The World Has Changed
We’re told that it’s pretty hard to find a good husband in 2018. Or a good wife for that matter. If only there was a guide to help us! Rewind the clock 60 years and it was apparently much easier… thanks to a magazine article titled “129 Ways to Get a Husband”! Kim Marx-Kuczynski shared…
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Hilariously Relatable Comics That Every Girl Will Recognize Herself In
Each and every girl out there has different lifestyle and problems. However, there are so many problems and situations that we can all relate to and say ‘That’s me’. Artist and illustrator, Akshara Ashok creates some pretty hilariously relatable comics that we all can laugh at. She has the rare ability to laugh at herself…
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Hilarious Illustrations About Women That Show How Cool It Is Just To Be Yourself
Before becoming an illustrator, Cécile Dormeau was a pixel pusher in Hamburg and Berlin. She also worked as an art director for an ad agency in Frankfurt. Now this wonderful French woman brings joy to thousands of her fans with her bright and ironic illustrations, published on her Instagram and Tumblr. She tries to discover…
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Artist Reimagines Disney Princesses As Breast Cancer Survivors To Raise Awareness For Breast Cancer Month
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Breast cancer remains the most common cancer among women in most developed countries (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer). Survival rates continue to improve with 89 out of every 100 women diagnosed with invasive breast cancer now surviving five or more years beyond diagnosis. To bring attention to this important cause,…
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Man Explains Women’s Rage Using A Brutal Analogy So All Men Can Understand It
Twitter user and author A.R. Moxon has been on a campaign to invite all men to participate in an exercise of empathy. His mission has been to reframe women’s experiences with assault and sexual violence in a way that men can understand… getting kicked in the nuts. “I can’t imagine women’s rage today,” Moxon writes.…
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An Illustrated Timeline Of Women’s Fashion For Every Year from 1784-1970
No matter what era you lived in, the latest fashions tended to be set in motion by a class of celebrity trendsetters, notably royalty, later followed by wealthy high society, and eventually movie and TV stars. Women’s fashions went through a paradigm shift in the early 20th century, when “freedom of movement” took hold and…
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Artist Creates Light Hearted Series of Comics Focussing On Her Day-To-Day Problems
Akshara Ashok is Chennai based artist and the creator of Happy Fluff Girls Comics. According to the artist, it is her artistic mission to communicates the reality of an average women’s daily routine and situations in humorous and light-hearted ways. She regularly posts her illustrations on Instagram, and has developed quite a following. Here are…
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Modern Ukrainian Women Wearing Traditional Crowns Give New Meaning To An Ancient Tradition
Slavic workshop Treti Pivni (translated as Third Rooster) is bringing back old traditions in their latest series focussing on women and children in Ukrainian headdresses. Traditionally, these floral headdresses were worn as a sign of their “purity” and marital eligibility. In pre-Christian times, they were even thought to protect innocent girls from evil spirits. Currently,…
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Photographer Travels The World Taking Photos of Women In Dresses Against Backgrounds Of The Most Beautiful Places
It sounds like a pretty tough gig – travelling the world taking photos of amazing women wearing spectacular dress in some of the most magnificent locations. But this is the life of Kristina Makeeva. The photographer integrates flying dresses, lights, flowers and architecture, which she carefully selects. Here are some of our favorite images from…
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Access the Largest Collection of Frida Kahlo’s Work Ever Assembled, All FREE Online
Some films achieve the rare feat of being both colorful escapist fantasy and artful means of reconnecting us with our imperiled humanity. Pixar’s wonderful, animated Coco is such a film, “an exploration of values,” writes Jia Tolentino at The New Yorker, “a story of a multigenerational matriarchy, rooted in the past—whereas real life, these days, feels…