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BTS in THAT layered latex outfit ๐
2023-04-17 08:40:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ Good morning! Here is your slave task for Monday..
๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ Good morning! Here is your slave task for Monday 17th April 2023. These tasks are designed to be interactive. They are an open invitation to send me a direct message to discuss the task and to send voice notes, photos or videos (whatever is best suited to the task) as proof of completion. I am aware that not all slaves have the same interests, experience and/or threshold, so I have designed these tasks to be as mixed as possible. There should be something to appeal to everyone regardless of where you stand on the scale! ๐๐๐ Your Goddess, Serena
2023-04-17 07:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostMy slutty secretary is dressed and ready to work for me whil..
My slutty secretary is dressed and ready to work for me whilst I have a leisurely workout in my gym. Ankles, heels, chastity cage and collar all chained into her chair.
2023-04-16 10:59:13 +0000 UTC View Postโ๏ธ Feminist Friday โ๏ธ Naomi Parker Fraley In 1942, 20-year..
โ๏ธ Feminist Friday โ๏ธ Naomi Parker Fraley In 1942, 20-year-old Naomi Parker was working in a machine shop at the Naval Air Station in Alameda, California, when a photographer snapped a shot of her on the job. In the photo, released through the Acme photo agency, sheโs bent over an industrial machine, wearing a jumpsuit and sensible heels, with her hair tied back in a polka-dot bandana for safety. On January 20, 2018, less than two years after finally getting recognition as the woman in the photographโthought to be the inspiration for the World War II-era poster girl โRosie the RiveterโโNaomi Parker Fraleydied at the age of 96. Fraleyโs late-in-life fame came as the result of the dedicated efforts made by one scholar, James J. Kimble, to explore the history behind this American and feminist icon and to untangle the legends surrounding the famous poster. โThere are so many incredible myths about it, very few of them based even remotely in fact,โ Kimble says. The poster in question was originally produced in 1943 by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation and displayed in its factories to encourage more women to join the wartime labor force. Created by the artist J. Howard Miller, it featured a woman in a red-and-white polka-dot headscarf and blue shirt, flexing her bicep beneath the phrase โWe Can Do It!โ Although itโs ubiquitous now, the poster was only displayed by Westinghouse for a period of two weeks in February 1943, and then replaced by another one in a series of at least 40 other promotional images, few of which included women. โThe idea that we have now that she was famous and everywhere during the warโnot even close to true,โ says Kimble. Kimble, an associate professor of communication at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, began studying the โWe Can Do Itโ poster due to his interest in the propaganda that was used on the home front during World War II. During the war, Millerโs poster was far less well known than the image of a female worker created by a much more famous artist: Norman Rockwell. Published on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post on May 29, 1943,Rockwellโs painting depicts a woman in a blue work jumpsuit with a rivet gun in her lap, a sandwich in her hand and a copy of โMein Kampfโ under her foot. The womanโs lunch box reads โRosie,โ which linked her with a popular song released that same year called โRosie the Riveter,โ by Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb. But in the 1980s, Millerโs โWe Can Do It!โ poster resurfaced with a bang, and was widely reprinted on T-shirts, mugs, pins and many other products. Kimble believes this resurgence was due to a combination of factors, including Reagan-era budget cuts, which led the National Archives to license the image to sell souvenirs and raise money; the 40th anniversary of World War II; and the continuing push for womenโs rights. Adopted as a feminist symbol of strength and an icon of American wartime resilience, the woman in the poster was retroactively identified as Rosie the Riveter, too, and quickly became the most widely recognizable โRosie.โ For years, people believed that a Michigan woman named Geraldine Hoff Doyle was the model for the poster. Doyle, who had worked briefly as a metal presser in a factory in 1942, saw a photograph of a bandanna-clad woman working at an industrial lathe reprinted in a magazine in the 1980s, and identified the woman as her younger self; she later linked this photo to Millerโs famous poster. By the 1990s, media reports were identifying Doyle as the โreal-life Rosie the Riveter,โ a claim that was widely repeated for years, including inDoyleโs obituary in 2010. But Kimble wasnโt so sure. โHow do we know that?โ he says of his initial reaction to reading that Doyle was the woman in the image that (supposedly) inspired Millerโs poster. โEverything else we think we know about that poster is dubious. How do we know about her?โ Though he already knew the artist had no descendants, and had left limited papers behind, with no clue of who his model might have been, Kimble began looking into the 1942 photograph. And after five years of searching, he found โthe smoking gun,โ as he calls itโa copy of the photograph with the original caption glued on the back. Dated March 1942 at the Naval Air Station in Alameda, it identified โPretty Naomi Parkerโ as the woman at the lathe. Here is the original caption, which speaks volumes about how women working in factories during the war were seen: โPretty Naomi Parker is as easy to look at as overtime pay on the weekโs check. And sheโs a good example of an old contention that glamor is what goes into the clothes, and not the clothes. Pre-war fashion frills are only a discord in war-time clothing for women. Naomi wears heavy shoes, black suit, and a turban to keep her hair out of harmโs way (we mean the machine, you dope).โ Meanwhile, in California, Naomi Parker Fraley had already stumbled on the truth herself. In 2011, at a reunion of female war workers, she saw the Acme photo of the woman at the lathe on display and recognized herself. Then she saw the caption, with Geraldine Hoff Doyleโs name and information. Fraley wrote to the National Park Service to correct the error, but got nowhere, even though she had kept a clipping of the photo from a 1942 paper with her name in the caption. โDoyleโs tale was so believable by that point, and so widely accepted that even the original clipping couldnโt convince people otherwise,โ Kimble says. โSo when I called [Fraley], she was just delighted that someone was willing to listen to her side of the story.โ In 2016, Kimble published an article revealing his findings in the journal Rhetoric & Public Affairs, called โRosieโs Secret Identity.โ At the time, the New York Times reported, Fraley gave an interview to the Omaha World-Herald in which she gave a simple yet memorable description of how it felt to finally be known to the world as the real-life Rosie: โVictory! Victory! Victory!โ People magazine also sent a crew to her rural California home, complete with makeup artist and lighting technician, and did a photo shoot of the then 95-year-old dressed like her presumed alter ego in Millerโs poster. Doubt still remains, however, as to whether the photo of Naomi Parkerโwhich was published in Millerโs hometown newspaper, The Pittsburgh Press, in July 1942โwas in fact the inspiration for Millerโs image. Without confirmation from the artist, who died in 1985, there is only the physical resemblance between the woman in the photo and the woman in the posterโand, of course, the polka-dot bandanaโto go by. All that was beside the point for Naomi Parker Fraley, Kimble believes. โI think the most important thing to her was her identity. When thereโs a photo of you going around that people recognize, and yet somebody elseโs name is below it, and youโre powerless to change thatโthatโs really going to affect you.โ When he interviewed her, he says, โthere was an anguish that she felt. A powerlessness. The idea that this journal article, and the media picking it up and spreading the story, helped her regain her claim on that photo and her personal identity was really the big victory for her.โ *** Disclaimer: It is important to remember that some of the women you will read about during Feminist Friday will have done unsavory, bad, and sometimes even terrible or unforgivable things during their lives. I have decided to include any women found to be problematic rather than disregard them entirely because I believe that it would be a disservice to do otherwise. The different women discussed here have lives that span over thousands of years during which life on Earth and humanity in general changed immensely and unrecognizably. Some of their values will be outdated. Some will be laughable. Some offensive. However, I implore you to try and look at these women as individual members of a world made to tame, shame, shackle, subjugate, abuse, and kill them. Do not ignore the horrors of the past. You are free to dislike them (I dislike many!) but recognize their achievements within the context of their time and place in the world.
2023-04-14 11:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ Good morning! Here is your slave task for Friday..
๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ Good morning! Here is your slave task for Friday 14th April 2023. These tasks are designed to be interactive. They are an open invitation to send me a direct message to discuss the task and to send voice notes, photos or videos (whatever is best suited to the task) as proof of completion. I am aware that not all slaves have the same interests, experience and/or threshold, so I have designed these tasks to be as mixed as possible. There should be something to appeal to everyone regardless of where you stand on the scale! ๐๐๐ Your Goddess, Serena
2023-04-14 07:30:09 +0000 UTC View PostChats will resume this evening at 9pm! $5 discount on every ..
Chats will resume this evening at 9pm! $5 discount on every chat - tonight only!
2023-04-13 11:55:10 +0000 UTC View PostMotorbike leathers bought for my upcoming south of France tr..
Motorbike leathers bought for my upcoming south of France trip ๐
2023-04-11 13:35:18 +0000 UTC View Post๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ Good morning! Here is your slave task for Monday..
๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ Good morning! Here is your slave task for Monday 10th April 2023. These tasks are designed to be interactive. They are an open invitation to send me a direct message to discuss the task and to send voice notes, photos or videos (whatever is best suited to the task) as proof of completion. I am aware that not all slaves have the same interests, experience and/or threshold, so I have designed these tasks to be as mixed as possible. There should be something to appeal to everyone regardless of where you stand on the scale! ๐๐๐ Your Goddess, Serena
2023-04-10 07:30:05 +0000 UTC View Post"Easter bunny CAPTURED and PEGGED" This naughty Easter bunn..
"Easter bunny CAPTURED and PEGGED" This naughty Easter bunny thinks it can slip into my dungeon to take and use whatever it likes? Not on my watch. I catch this slutty bunny and capture it in rope so it can't escape as I teach it a lesson it'll never forget. Clearly, this whore has a propensity for filling its ass, so I plan to drill its boy pussy so hard it won't hop right for a week.
2023-04-08 18:09:24 +0000 UTC View Postโ๏ธ Feminist Friday โ๏ธ Alice Huyler Ramsey On November 11th..
โ๏ธ Feminist Friday โ๏ธ Alice Huyler Ramsey On November 11th 1886, Alice Huyler Ramsey, the first woman to drive across the United States from coast to coast, was born in New Barbadoes Township, New Jersey. Alice, born Alice Taylor Huyer, was the daughter of John Edwin Huyler, a lumber dealer, and Ada Mumford Farr. From 1903 to 1905 she attended Vassar College. In January 1906, she married John R. Ramsey, a congressman 24 years her senior, in Hackensack, New Jersey. Together the couple had two children. In 1908 John bought Alice a new Maxwell Runabout. That summer she drover more than 6,000 miles around the New England area. In September 1908, the same year she receiver her car, she drove one of the three Maxwells that were entered in that yearโs American Automobile Associationโs (AAA) Montauk Point endurance race. She was one of only two women to participate in the event. It was at the event that it was first proposed that Alice attempt a transcontinental journey by car, a fete never before accomplished by a woman. It was arranged that she would have the backing of Maxwell-Briscoe, who supplied her with a 1909 tour car and as many parts as she needed. This drive was originally organised as a publicity stunt for Maxwell-Briscoe, who marketed their cars specifically at women; who at the time were not often encouraged to drive. On June 9th 1909, at only 22 years old, Alice set off on a 3,800 mile car journey; she was accompanied by two of her sisters-in-law and one of her friends, none of whom knew how to drive. The women started from Hell Gate in Manhattan, New York, in a green, four-cylinder, 30-horsepower Maxwell DA. The trip took 59 days, and on August 7th they arrived in San Francisco, California to much fanfare, though the arrived about three weeks later than had originally been planned. The women navigated the entire journey themselves using a few maps, but mostly using telephone poles, following the poles with more wires with the hope it would lead to a town. Only 152 miles of the 3,800 mile trip was on paved road, which lead to several problems. Over the course of the trip Alice had to change 11 tires, clean all the spark plugs several times, repair a broken brake pedal, and sleep in the car whenever it got too stuck in the mud. Additionally, on their journey the women crossed the trail of a manhunt looking for a murderer in Nebraska, got bed bugs, and at one point found themselves driving in the middle of a Native American hunting party. Alice loved the adventure so much that between 1909 and 1975 she drove across the country over 30 times. In 1960 she was named the โWoman Motorist of the Centuryโ by AAA, and in 1961 she wrote and published the story of her first trip, Veil, Duster, and Tire Iron. Alice went on to lead a very full life, when her husband died in 1933 she lived with Anna Graham Harris in New Jersey and later California until Annaโs death in 1953. Alice then lived with Elizabeth Elliott from 1968 until September 10th 1983, when Alice Huyler Ramsey died in Covina, California. On October 17th 2000, Alice became the first woman inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame.
2023-04-07 11:00:33 +0000 UTC View Post๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ Good morning! Here is your slave task for Friday..
๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ Good morning! Here is your slave task for Friday 7th April 2023. These tasks are designed to be interactive. They are an open invitation to send me a direct message to discuss the task and to send voice notes, photos or videos (whatever is best suited to the task) as proof of completion. I am aware that not all slaves have the same interests, experience and/or threshold, so I have designed these tasks to be as mixed as possible. There should be something to appeal to everyone regardless of where you stand on the scale! ๐๐๐ Your Goddess, Serena
2023-04-07 07:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostFirst day back in the office for 2023!
First day back in the office for 2023!
2023-04-06 12:29:35 +0000 UTC View PostBTS goodness from ydays shoot!
BTS goodness from ydays shoot!
2023-04-05 08:12:25 +0000 UTC View PostOpening some of my birthday pressies! From a livestream on F..
Opening some of my birthday pressies! From a livestream on Friday 31st. There may be one or two that were not included in this video, will do my best to take pictures to thank you all.
2023-04-03 09:16:47 +0000 UTC View PostThis week I am Back to back with meetings until at least 14t..
This week I am Back to back with meetings until at least 14th April so wonโt be on , on my scheduled times so please just keep an eye out for me
2023-04-03 09:12:20 +0000 UTC View Post๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ Good morning! Here is your slave task for Monday..
๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ Good morning! Here is your slave task for Monday 3rd April 2023. These tasks are designed to be interactive. They are an open invitation to send me a direct message to discuss the task and to send voice notes, photos or videos (whatever is best suited to the task) as proof of completion. I am aware that not all slaves have the same interests, experience and/or threshold, so I have designed these tasks to be as mixed as possible. There should be something to appeal to everyone regardless of where you stand on the scale! ๐๐๐ Your Goddess, Serena
2023-04-03 07:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post"Whip ping his Ass and Testicles" photo-set
"Whip ping his Ass and Testicles" photo-set
2023-04-02 21:44:26 +0000 UTC View Post"Slave fucked with 8" cock" photo-set
"Slave fucked with 8" cock" photo-set
2023-03-31 16:31:46 +0000 UTC View PostNEW! From now on, I will be uploading the exclusive twin pr..
NEW! From now on, I will be uploading the exclusive twin professional photo-sets to the clips from my clip-stores HERE for my fans
2023-03-31 16:28:34 +0000 UTC View Postโ๏ธ Feminist Friday โ๏ธ Elizabeth Eckford Itโs an iconic ima..
โ๏ธ Feminist Friday โ๏ธ Elizabeth Eckford Itโs an iconic image of the American civil rights movement, one thatโs been reprinted in newspapers and history books over the last fifty years. In the forefront, a 1 5-year-old girl named Elizabeth Eckford is being hurled insults at by a white mob behind her as she is denied entrance to the school. Just behind her, also 1 5 years old, was another youn g woman whose face is contorted with anger. That you ng womanโs name was Hazel Bryan, and her face became the face that symbolized segregation in the southern United States. On the morning of September 4, 1957, Eckford was to join eight other students โ a group that was later to be known as the Little Rock Nine โ to become the first black students to enroll at the all-white Little Rock Central High School. Because she did not have a phone in her home, Eckford never received a call from Daisy Bates, the head of the Arkansas chapter of the NAACP, telling the students to come to her house prior to heading to the school. So that morning, Eckford went directly to the school alone. Once there, she encountered the screaming mob of white people and the Arkansas National Guard, set in place by Governor Orval Faubus to prevent the black students from entering the school. When the rest of the group arrived, they, too, were all turned away from the school. Finally, on September 24, President Eisenhower sent in the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army to accompany them inside the building and the nine students were formally able to begin attending classes. Hazel Bryanโs parents pulled her from the newly integrated Central High School and instead enrolled her in a rural school closer to her home. However, she dropped out a year later to get married. The picture had almost immediately become a notorious symbol of white hatred that followed both Eckford and Bryan throughout their lives. Bryan, however, had undergone an intellectual awakening after high school, in large part due to watching the struggle of Martin Luther King and the other civil rights protesters on television. She was remorseful over the way she had treated Eckford and was haunted by the fact that her children would one day see her in that infamous photo. In 1963, she tracked down Elizabeth Eckford and called her to apologize for her behavior six years earlier. Eckford accepted her apology, but the conversation was short and the two did not talk again for years. Eckford suffered from depression throughout her life and she had various stints in college and then the Army. She was stationed at bases around the country, from Indiana to Georgia to Alabama, before she finally returned to Little Rock in 1974. She returned to the same home she grew up in where she raised two sons alone and largely surviving on disability checks. She never married. Both Eckford and Bryan lived relatively quiet lives, with Eckford giving the occasional interview but largely opting out of the spotlight as a member of the Little Rock Nine. Over the years, Bryan had worked to make up for her past behavior, becoming involved with organizations that helped minority students and unwed mothers. The year 1997 marked the 40th anniversary of the integration of Little Rock Central High School and then-president and Arkansas native, Bill Clinton, wanted a large ceremony to commemorate the event. Will Counts, the photographer responsible for the famous photo, asked Eckford and Bryan if they would be willing to pose again for a second photograph and they both agreed. Reconciled after forty years, the two realized they had lots in common, including their children and a fondness for flowers and thrift stores. They struck up a very unlikely friendship, and began attending events together, and touring around schools to talk to children about race and tolerance. Both received criticism for their relationship. Eckford was accused of being naรฏve or too forgiving, while Bryan was accused of being a phony opportunist. She especially received criticism from whites who resented her being the face of reconciliation after all those years being the face of segregation. Their relationship was strained for other reasons, too. Eckford believed Bryan didnโt own up to her past as well as she should have, and began to suspect she was too much of an attention-seeker. The two were never able to mend the tension and their friendship sadly went downhill. Eckford and Bryan havenโt spoken since 2001, but the photograph of the two of them taken in 1997 is still sold as a poster in the visitorโs centre near Central High School, now a National Historic Site. At the bottom of the poster is a gold sticker, which reads โTrue reconciliation can occur only when we honestly acknowledge our painful, but shared, past.โ *** Disclaimer: It is important to remember that some of the women you will read about during Feminist Friday will have done unsavoury, bad, and sometimes even terrible or unforgivable things during their lives. I have decided to include any women found to be problematic rather than disregard them entirely because I believe that it would be a disservice to do otherwise. The different women discussed here have lives that span over thousands of years during which life on Earth and humanity in general changed immensely and unrecognizably. Some of their values will be outdated. Some will be laughable. Some offensive. However, I implore you to try and look at these women as individual members of a world made to tame, shame, shackle, subjugate, abuse, and kill them. Do not ignore the horrors of the past. You are free to dislike them (I dislike many!) but recognize their achievements within the context of their time and place in the world.
2023-03-31 11:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ Good morning! Here is your slave task for Friday..
๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ Good morning! Here is your slave task for Friday 31st March 2023. These tasks are designed to be interactive. They are an open invitation to send me a direct message to discuss the task and to send voice notes, photos or videos (whatever is best suited to the task) as proof of completion. I am aware that not all slaves have the same interests, experience and/or threshold, so I have designed these tasks to be as mixed as possible. There should be something to appeal to everyone regardless of where you stand on the scale! ๐๐๐ Your Goddess, Serena
2023-03-31 07:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ Good morning! Here is your slave task for Monday..
๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ Good morning! Here is your slave task for Monday 27th March 2023. These tasks are designed to be interactive. They are an open invitation to send me a direct message to discuss the task and to send voice notes, photos or videos (whatever is best suited to the task) as proof of completion. I am aware that not all slaves have the same interests, experience and/or threshold, so I have designed these tasks to be as mixed as possible. There should be something to appeal to everyone regardless of where you stand on the scale! ๐๐๐ Your Goddess, Serena
2023-03-27 07:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
"Tricked into Chastity" Having partially fitted a pretty pi..
"Tricked into Chastity" Having partially fitted a pretty pink chastity device and trussed Jessica up in preparation for a short video clip, Mistress Serena has a little surprise in store; this isnโt going to be the clip Jessica had expected! Mistress Serena has lured Jessica into a vulnerable and exposed situation only to lock the device properly and announce that she will now be kept in full time chastity where she will be teased and tormented for Mistressโ amusement, starting now!
2023-03-26 10:32:03 +0000 UTC View PostToday Iโll be uploading a clip from my professional clip sto..
Today Iโll be uploading a clip from my professional clip store. Itโs up to YOU to decide what you want to see! The most popular category / theme / kink will win! Put your vote in the comments below ๐
2023-03-25 11:53:18 +0000 UTC View Postโ๏ธ Feminist Friday โ๏ธ Margaret Bourke-White WASHINGTON In ..
โ๏ธ Feminist Friday โ๏ธ Margaret Bourke-White WASHINGTON In 1919, a year before American women were given the right to vote, Margaret Bourke-White wrote in her diary, โI want to do all the things that women never do!โ Just ten years later, she was hired as the first photographer for Fortune magazine. As a trailblazer in the nascent field of photojournalism, Bourke-White became a person of many firsts, including having her photograph of the Fort Peck Dam appear on the first cover of the freshly released Life magazine in 1936, being the first Western photographer allowed into the Soviet Union, the first woman to fly with a U.S. combat mission, and the first woman allowed to fly in a B-47 bomber. โHer accomplishments would have been significant in any historical time, no matter who had done themโthe fact that she was a woman in those very early prefeminist years makes them all the more remarkable,โ says author and professor Lynne Iglitzin. Iglitzin, who is also a distant relative of Whiteโs, presents โTrailblazing Photojournalist: Margaret Bourke-White,โ a Speakers Bureau program of Humanities Washington, at the Spokane Valley Library and North Spokane Library on November 5, Ellensburg Public Library on November 10, and the Richland Public Library on November 17. Bourke-White took an interest in photography at an early age alongside her father, Joseph, an amateur photographer, who often used Margaret as his assistant, to help develop pictures in their bathroom. At fift een, Bourke-White turned a summer job as a camp counselor into a photography business by photographing the campers next to their bunks and sending the printed cards to the campersโ families for five cents a card. โShe was so successful in this first endeavor that she ended up printing two thousand cards by the end of the summer,โ says Iglitzin. After graduating from Cornell University with a degree in biology, Bourke-White moved to Cleveland, an industrial metropolis, and opened her own photography studio, relying on Cornell alumni and architects for freelance jobs, eventually landing a commission from the Otis Steel Company in 1929. That same year, publisher Henry Luce was getting ready to launch Fortune, a beautiful new glossy he proclaimed would convey โthe dignity and the beauty, the smartness and excitement of modern industry.โ Luce had seen Bourke-Whiteโs steel mill photographs and was captivated by a headline that ran in the New York Sun: โDizzy heights have no terror for this girl photographer, who braves numerous perils to film the beauty of iron and steel.โ Luce hired Bourke-White as the first photographer for Fortune. Her immediate assignment was photographing the Swift meatpacking plant in Chicago. She explored every aspect of meat processing, with its bloody working conditions and stench, going to dangerous lengths to get the perfect shot. An article for Fortune entitled โHogsโ cemented Bourke-White as a leader in her field. Bourke-Whiteโs lens shifted remarkably in the 1930s. โShe left behind her focus on the machine, and came to recognize and to record the power of individuals,โ says Iglitzin. In 1936, Luce hired Bourke-White as one of four photographers for Life, with one of her photographs gracing the first cover. Bourke-White was a fearless photographer, doing whatever it took to get the shot. She chartered small planes to photograph droughts and floods in the Southwest, often insisting the pilot leave the side door open so she could hang out and get a better shot. She climbed out of her studio on the sixty-first floor of the Chrysler Building and perched atop a steel eagle eight hundred feet above the street to get a birdโs-eye view of the city. She photographed Gandhi just hours before his assassination, traveled with General George S. Patton through a crumbling Germany as he liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp; she was torpedoed in a ship off the coast of Africa, and journeyed deep into South African mines. For these feats of daring, her colleagues called her โMaggie the Indestructible.โ Bourke-White was diagnosed with Parkinsonโs disease in 1952, and remained a senior photographer at Life until 1969, dying of the disease in 1971. Iglitzin says she has made a personal connection to the world-famous photographer. โBourke-Whiteโs name was often spoken of in awe around the dinner table at one or more family holidays. My fatherโs family, the Whites, talked about cousin Margaret. Of course, she was a very distant relative of mine, and one whom I had never met, but one who made all of us proud.โ Iglitzin adds, โShe became perhaps the best-known American photographer in the twentieth century. Through her photos, thousands were able to witness world events. The fact that she was a woman doing these things, at a time when women were expected to focus on home and family, is perhaps the most impressive thing of all.โ *** Disclaimer: It is important to remember that some of the women you will read about during Feminist Friday will have done unsavory, bad, and sometimes even terrible or unforgivable things during their lives. I have decided to include any women found to be problematic rather than disregard them entirely because I believe that it would be a disservice to do otherwise. The different women discussed here have lives that span over thousands of years during which life on Earth and humanity in general changed immensely and unrecognizably. Some of their values will be outdated. Some will be laughable. Some offensive. However, I implore you to try and look at these women as individual members of a world made to tame, shame, shackle, subjugate, abuse, and kill them. Do not ignore the horrors of the past. You are free to dislike them (I dislike many!) but recognize their achievements within the context of their time and place in the world.
2023-03-24 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post