“Lesbians are not legally liable,” Sir! magazine, May 1957.
Ran across this today on Pinterest. I did a ton of digging to find the whole article but best I could get was the publication. Sir! was a gossip rag that included pop culture and celeb stories. On this piece, Thomas Francis takes an angry tone to explain how anti-LGBT+ laws in the US do not punish lesbians. This is an interesting take because in the 1950s, many anti-LGBT+ laws involved sodomy, something they believed women could not commit. Broadly, ideas around sex involved penetration so two women could not have intercourse.
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While Francis paints a happy picture that lesbians can do whatever they want, this was not true. Many women- especially butch women- at this time were also caught up in cross-dressing laws. The woman in the photo could be picked up by police for wearing too many articles of the wrong kind of clothing. A saying on the street was “three-article rule” - you needed to have on at least 3 articles of the clothing for your assigned sex at birth to not be cross-dressing.
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While I could find little on the article itself, it seems this image has more recently found its way into poster and illustration form as merchandise. More on pulp/pop mags tomorrow.
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🗣💚 'I always feel a special interest in Govan and in the prosperity of its people.'
So said the mighty philanthropist Isabella Elder in 1884.
🙌🏾Isabella gave generously to improve the lives of people in Govan and Glasgow. She was passionate about women’s education 👩🏻🎓👩🎓, and the health and well-being of families.
📍In Govan alone, she funded:
--> A school for Domestic Economy
--> A building for the Cottage Nurses Training Home
--> A Cottage Hospital
--> Elder Park Library
--> Elder Park
⚓️In 1883 she bought a large piece of land across from what is now Fairfield Heritage/Shipyard. Her husband, John, had built it into one of the world's leading shipyards – and after his death in 1869 she ran the day-to-day operations for nine months.
🌳🌱Isabella gifted the land to the people of Govan as "a public park for the use and enjoyment – for healthful recreation, music & amusements, and for no other uses or purposes whatever.”
🌳 🌳🌿She named it *Elder Park* to honour her husband and father-in-law. Elder Park opened 137 years ago on 27th June 1885, and it still provides 'healthful recreation' for the people of Govan today!
🌹Her statue, in a Rose Garden in her park since 1906, was paid for by public donations.
🎨Isabella Elder will be featured in our upcoming mural in Govan – 🙏🏾 @SWG3glasgow for supporting our mural-ing.
You can get your very own copy of our WE CAN EDIT digital poster of Isabella (which we made for our #WikipediaWorkshops) free on Wiki Commons!
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www.tinyurl.com/IsabellaElder-Govan
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This is Constance Markievicz, who died on this day in 1927.
A suffragette, anti-imperialist, socialist, and Irish revolutionary - Constance Markievicz was hardly a typical Countess.
At aged 48, Markievicz took part in the Easter Rising in Dublin, 1916, when Irish Republicans attempted to end British rule and establish an Irish Republic.
After shooting a Dublin Metropolitan Police officer dead on the first day of fighting, she was imprisoned in London’s Holloway prison.
Remarkably, she fought the 1918 election for the constituency of Dublin St Patrick's from her prison cell, combining her suffragist ideals with her anti-imperialism. Even more remarkable, she won, making her the first woman to be elected to parliament.
However, she never took up her seat. Markievicz – along with 72 other Sinn Féin MPs – refused to acknowledge the authority of the British government, and instead helped Sinn Féin set up their own parliament in Dublin in 1919 (the ‘Revolutionary Dáil’) where Markievicz was appointed Minister for Labour.
She soon became an icon for the women of the rebellion, telling them to ‘dress suitably in short skirts and strong boots, leave your jewels in the bank, and buy a revolver.’
She never slowed down either: in her final years she became an avid motorist and accomplished mechanic.
She died in 1927, still politically active. By then, she had given away the last of her wealth, and died in a public ward among the working classes she had fought for all her life.
This photo was taken around 1915 and shows Markievicz in uniform with a Colt revolver.
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Breaking the cruel stereotype of Queen Mary I of England: (Please read the whole caption)
The Protestant Church of England was founded by a man, not God/Jesus Christ. And not just any man, but a Catholic tyrannical man (Henry VIII). Imagine having a religion, created by a man who had opposing views to that religion he just made up. Makes absolute no sense whatsoever. How are you going to create a religion, but not even believe in that religion? The Anglican religion has its own roots traced to the Catholic Church. Afterall, it was the Holy Roman Catholic Church who crowned the first kings of Europe. If it weren’t for the Catholic church’s support to England, that country would not have been the great prosperous nation it has become. The first Anglican monarchs executed tons of innocent people based on religion. But it was mainly Elizabeth and Henry who killed for the purpose that they simply found Catholics to be annoying. Unlike Queen Mary, she ordered the executions of Protestants, but not because she found them annoying, but because Protestants threatened her throne and her own life. It had taken Mary so much work to end up with the crown that was rightfully hers. Protestants wouldn’t shut up spreading their doctrine. Mary imprisoned Protestants thinking they will finally keep their religion to themselves behind bars…but they didn’t. Protestants would purposely scream out their faith is the true one behind bars and out in the streets. They also threatened to kill Mary. This of course, was something that any monarch would want to immediately punish. As it should. Nothing would shut them up. These Protestants were the biggest problem and major threat to Mary. There was no other choice left, but to execute them. Besides that, Mary also had the belief that by executing them she was doing a good deed to God.
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Published in 1953, the cover says it all.. or nearly. The contents include chapters on ‘Washing Up’, ‘The Wash’, and, poignantly, ‘What Do We Do It All For?’ What indeed? I wrote my first book of women’s history 20 years ago, but finding this book while doing a clear-up stopped me in my tracks… Our poor mothers.. and grandmothers..! #womenshistory#feminism#mothers#grandmothers#booksaboutwomen