Women | Words and Art I – Pics and Posts

Did you see the Google Doodle on International Women’s Day? The doodle featured a collection of inspiring quotes by women beautifully illustrated by [other] women. It’s a pretty impressive collection, and I want the prints!

Fortunately, my bestie–from now on referred to as “the prophet”–anticipated this and sent me a beautiful collection of 12 woman-centered postcards. I finally took time to scan them, so I decided to share them on the blog in three installments.

Artist: Penelope Dullaghan

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. And I am not free as long as one person of Color remains chained. Nor is anyone of you. –Audre Lorde, “The Uses of Anger,” National Women’s Studies Association Conference, 1981

Artist: Daiana Ruiz

Many of us recall when #45 described his opponent, Hillary Clinton, as a nasty woman. He intended it as an insult, but his remark–steeped in misogyny–invited a world of women to “stay nasty.”

Artist: Hanna Barczyk

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving. –Gloria Steinem

Artist: Daiana Ruiz

I believe that telling our stories, first to ourselves and then to one another and the world, is a revolutionary act. It is an act that can be met with hostility, exclusion, and violence. It can also lead to love, understanding, transcendence, and community. I hope that my being real with you will help empower you to step into who you are and encourage you to share yourself with those around you. –Janet Mock, Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More

The postcards are part of The Future Is Female, a 2019 calendar package published by Workman Publishing. The calendar is a rallying call to women–inspiring “a year of activism, unity, and sisterhood.” A portion of the proceeds from the calendar sales will be donated to Girls Write Now, a nonprofit organization “that mentors underserved young women and helps them find their voices through the power of writing and community.”

I hope you’re inspired by the words and art.

Stay tuned. I plan to write posts featuring the remaining eight postcards some time this week.

March on…

13 thoughts on “Women | Words and Art I”

Christine Brooks says:

March 18, 2019 at 11:30 pm

what a fantastic post. So happy you shared them.

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Chandra Lynn says:
March 20, 2019 at 5:49 pm

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Thanks! I have 8 more!!!

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Lona Gynt says:

March 19, 2019 at 6:30 pm

I love it Chandra, it is so hard though, I have been feeling reticent to start a narrative and commentary that has burdened me lately, it has been hard to even let my poems get through the exhausting daily routine, but I need to do my trans-feminist revolutionary act, and start to writing again, this has been an inspiration, gotta get that calendar. 🙂 Lona.

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Chandra Lynn says:
March 20, 2019 at 6:01 pm

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I hear you. My own academic work is “revolutionary,” but it takes a lot of emotional energy to work through all the “stuff,” so I’ve put things on hold for too long. Time to do the hard work…

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