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· Nov 14
Knitting the Woman’s Woolly: Part 1 – Purls of Feminist History
Feminist magazine Spare Rib published a pattern for a handknitted jumper in 1982. As volunteer Becky knitted one up for our collection, the more there was to learn about the jumper and its position in...
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As we have new people, time to share the piece of work I'm proudest of: my recreation for @womenslibrary.bsky.social of the jumper published in the UK feminist magazine 'Spare Rib' from 1982. I wrote all about the process and what it tells us about knitting in the 20thC. Then I made my own. 🧶♀️
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Respect your elders and let them pass down the wisdom of ages.
i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same
December 27, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Respect your elders and let them pass down the wisdom of ages.
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She said she wanted a ring but she meant Lord of the Rings
December 16, 2024 at 1:57 PM
She said she wanted a ring but she meant Lord of the Rings
Further proof that everything can be improved with the addition of googly eyes. 👀
Happy Birthday to Jane Austen, born #otd in 1775.
'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a library in possession of a good Jane Austen biography, must be in want of some googly eyes.' 👀
'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a library in possession of a good Jane Austen biography, must be in want of some googly eyes.' 👀
December 16, 2024 at 11:47 AM
Further proof that everything can be improved with the addition of googly eyes. 👀
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I’m printing this out and rolling a joint with it
December 16, 2024 at 12:03 AM
I’m printing this out and rolling a joint with it
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I think it's safe to say that Glasgow probably has the only Nike store in the world with column capitals thought to have been designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh!
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#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #charlesrenniemackintosh #columncapital #nike
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#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #charlesrenniemackintosh #columncapital #nike
December 16, 2024 at 9:43 AM
I think it's safe to say that Glasgow probably has the only Nike store in the world with column capitals thought to have been designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh!
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#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #charlesrenniemackintosh #columncapital #nike
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#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #charlesrenniemackintosh #columncapital #nike
Cannibalism in my hometown? Not in the slightest bit surprising.
Is any-one else thinking that this sounds more like a Bronze Age Serial Killer than a massacre?
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
‘Something horrible’: Somerset pit reveals bronze age cannibalism
Oxford analysis shows evidence of bloody massacre, with hand and feet bones chewed by human molars
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2024 at 11:00 AM
Cannibalism in my hometown? Not in the slightest bit surprising.
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The nurses were at considerable personal risk, indirectly and sometimes directly. There were so many wounded that they worked themselves into a state of exhaustion, and were treating men with serious communicable diseases as well as combat wounds
Lots of justifiable scorn poured on Lee Anderson for his Somme comment but worth noting that he's not even narrowly correct that only men were involved in combat. The Order of St John hospital where nurses treated Somme wounded was bombed twice by German aircraft, one sister reccd for Military Medal
December 9, 2024 at 3:08 PM
The nurses were at considerable personal risk, indirectly and sometimes directly. There were so many wounded that they worked themselves into a state of exhaustion, and were treating men with serious communicable diseases as well as combat wounds
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Ever wondered why walking around museums is weirdly tiring? At normal speed our legs act like pendulums, swinging forward from the hip & saving us a huge amount of energy. In "museum shuffle" our muscles must do ALL the work of constant readjustment. So cake in the cafe is scientifically justified 🥳
December 8, 2024 at 11:20 AM
Ever wondered why walking around museums is weirdly tiring? At normal speed our legs act like pendulums, swinging forward from the hip & saving us a huge amount of energy. In "museum shuffle" our muscles must do ALL the work of constant readjustment. So cake in the cafe is scientifically justified 🥳
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‘Memorial to a Marriage' 2004.
One of my favourite art pieces ever since I saw a bronze case of the original marble statue in the Kelvingrove, Glasgow. The original marble statue is installed on the burial plot of the artist Patricia Cronin and her wife Deborah Kass.
One of my favourite art pieces ever since I saw a bronze case of the original marble statue in the Kelvingrove, Glasgow. The original marble statue is installed on the burial plot of the artist Patricia Cronin and her wife Deborah Kass.
November 15, 2024 at 12:47 PM
‘Memorial to a Marriage' 2004.
One of my favourite art pieces ever since I saw a bronze case of the original marble statue in the Kelvingrove, Glasgow. The original marble statue is installed on the burial plot of the artist Patricia Cronin and her wife Deborah Kass.
One of my favourite art pieces ever since I saw a bronze case of the original marble statue in the Kelvingrove, Glasgow. The original marble statue is installed on the burial plot of the artist Patricia Cronin and her wife Deborah Kass.
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Laws that criminalise sex work don’t prevent sex work, they just make it harder for sex workers to work safely.
Decrim Now.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
Decrim Now.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
Call for end to ‘draconian’ police cautions for UK sex workers that last until age of 100
A ‘prostitute’s caution’, unlike other cautions, does not require a person to admit an offence or agree to it
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2024 at 10:02 AM
Laws that criminalise sex work don’t prevent sex work, they just make it harder for sex workers to work safely.
Decrim Now.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
Decrim Now.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
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📸 Ladycatas (Trouble the Cat)
December 8, 2024 at 11:26 AM
📸 Ladycatas (Trouble the Cat)
In a uniquely @womenslibrary.bsky.social experience, I've spent a chunk of my afternoon figuring how to stuff a bra in order to photograph it.
December 6, 2024 at 3:42 PM
In a uniquely @womenslibrary.bsky.social experience, I've spent a chunk of my afternoon figuring how to stuff a bra in order to photograph it.
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"You shouldn't find joy in rich people suffering, anyway let's watch a nice family film like A Christmas Carol, a story about how the only way to get rich people to show some humanity is to make them suff... WAIT"
December 5, 2024 at 7:30 PM
"You shouldn't find joy in rich people suffering, anyway let's watch a nice family film like A Christmas Carol, a story about how the only way to get rich people to show some humanity is to make them suff... WAIT"
For GCSE, we read 'An Inspector Calls' by JB Priestley. The point of the play is that a wealthy person can be a good father, give generously to charities, friends and family and *also* be responsible for the untold suffering of many while living comfortably.
It was written in 1945.
It was written in 1945.
December 6, 2024 at 11:14 AM
For GCSE, we read 'An Inspector Calls' by JB Priestley. The point of the play is that a wealthy person can be a good father, give generously to charities, friends and family and *also* be responsible for the untold suffering of many while living comfortably.
It was written in 1945.
It was written in 1945.
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Wow, my petition only needs 30 more signatures to get a response from the government! Please sign end share 🙏🏻 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Decriminalise Abortion
I am calling on the UK government to remove abortion from criminal law so that no pregnant person can be criminalised for procuring their own abortion.
petition.parliament.uk
November 30, 2024 at 9:26 PM
Wow, my petition only needs 30 more signatures to get a response from the government! Please sign end share 🙏🏻 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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#BlackFriday can be filled with great deals. But who can do better than libraries?
Free app. Free eBooks. Free eAudiobooks. Free eMagazines. Free eNewspapers.
In libraries, free is quite important to us. Access all this and more with your FREE library card.
Free app. Free eBooks. Free eAudiobooks. Free eMagazines. Free eNewspapers.
In libraries, free is quite important to us. Access all this and more with your FREE library card.
November 29, 2024 at 4:11 PM
#BlackFriday can be filled with great deals. But who can do better than libraries?
Free app. Free eBooks. Free eAudiobooks. Free eMagazines. Free eNewspapers.
In libraries, free is quite important to us. Access all this and more with your FREE library card.
Free app. Free eBooks. Free eAudiobooks. Free eMagazines. Free eNewspapers.
In libraries, free is quite important to us. Access all this and more with your FREE library card.
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Everyone’s all about the weird Victorian Christmas cards, BUT may I interest you in Weird Victorian Christmas TATTOOS?!
November 29, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Everyone’s all about the weird Victorian Christmas cards, BUT may I interest you in Weird Victorian Christmas TATTOOS?!
If anyone wants to know how my Christmas knitting is going, I'm on my 4th pair of socks – technically 5th, given that I've already knitted them once and frogged them – and still have another pair and a shawl to go. 🧶
It's fine. Everything is fine. It's *fine*.
It's fine. Everything is fine. It's *fine*.
November 29, 2024 at 2:55 PM
If anyone wants to know how my Christmas knitting is going, I'm on my 4th pair of socks – technically 5th, given that I've already knitted them once and frogged them – and still have another pair and a shawl to go. 🧶
It's fine. Everything is fine. It's *fine*.
It's fine. Everything is fine. It's *fine*.
Once again I am reskeeting a piece of fashion history that I would absolutely wear today.
American novelist Louisa May Alcott was born #OnThisDay in 1832. Katharine Hepburn wore this Walter Plunkett designed blue check wool period dress (shown here with reproduction bolero) as Jo in the 1933 adaptation of Little Women. Nicholas Inglis Collection. #film #costume #fashionhistory
November 29, 2024 at 2:51 PM
Once again I am reskeeting a piece of fashion history that I would absolutely wear today.
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Mrs. Claus costume designed by William Ivey Long worn #onthisday in 2003 by actor Harvey Fierstein--then playing Edna Turnblad in "Hairspray" on Broadway--in the Macy's #Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York, NY. His appearance in drag ignited a political firestorm. #OTD
📷 Getty Images
📷 Getty Images
November 27, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Mrs. Claus costume designed by William Ivey Long worn #onthisday in 2003 by actor Harvey Fierstein--then playing Edna Turnblad in "Hairspray" on Broadway--in the Macy's #Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York, NY. His appearance in drag ignited a political firestorm. #OTD
📷 Getty Images
📷 Getty Images
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🏳️⚧️ Dora Richter, one of the first trans femmes known to have medically transitioned was thought to have been murdered at the Nazi raid on the world’s first transgender clinic, actually survived, recently discovered documents revealed this summer👇
www.wearequeeraf.com/historians-t...
www.wearequeeraf.com/historians-t...
Historians thought this trans woman was murdered by the Nazis, but she escaped and lived to be 74
We've always been here, and even in the darkest times - we will survive through them. We'll always be here
www.wearequeeraf.com
November 29, 2024 at 11:29 AM
🏳️⚧️ Dora Richter, one of the first trans femmes known to have medically transitioned was thought to have been murdered at the Nazi raid on the world’s first transgender clinic, actually survived, recently discovered documents revealed this summer👇
www.wearequeeraf.com/historians-t...
www.wearequeeraf.com/historians-t...
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Ellen Jones’s book is due late Winter - hugely useful and inspiring action
November 29, 2024 at 11:18 AM
Ellen Jones’s book is due late Winter - hugely useful and inspiring action
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Any writer who uses embroidery as a shorthand for uninteresting female characters should be made to do 10k perfect French knots with metallic thread.
Embroidery photos for tax: The first two are practice pieces and were a pain in the ass to do. The third is a remake of an earlier project.
Embroidery photos for tax: The first two are practice pieces and were a pain in the ass to do. The third is a remake of an earlier project.
November 29, 2024 at 3:35 AM
Any writer who uses embroidery as a shorthand for uninteresting female characters should be made to do 10k perfect French knots with metallic thread.
Embroidery photos for tax: The first two are practice pieces and were a pain in the ass to do. The third is a remake of an earlier project.
Embroidery photos for tax: The first two are practice pieces and were a pain in the ass to do. The third is a remake of an earlier project.