The Round-Up: IWD Edition
Happy International Women’s Day! In honour of both IWD and March being Women’s History Month, this week’s round-up is dedicated to these topics:
- Racialicious shares a video of Loretta Ross discussing the history of the term “women of colour”.
- David is live blogging Women’s History Month for the Ms. Blog, with a day-by-day look at women’s history.
- Julie Z. at The F Bomb talks about Mary Cassatt and asks why women’s work is so downplayed in the study of art history.
- Kate from Mastersdegree.net sent me along this article: 50 Fascinating Facts for Women’s History Month.
- Feminists for Choice celebrates the work of Ursula K. LeGuin.
- DCentric takes us back to the 1869 trial of black woman Minnie Gaines, accused of bludgeoning the father of her child to death after experiencing domestic violence.
- Judy Rebick’s International Women’s Day comment at her blog, Transforming Power.
- Introductory post in The Daily Femme’s Women’s History Month series.
- Jess Yee’s IWD Wish List on Racialicious.
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