I am pretty much freaking out right now.
I just went around my newsroom showing this to everyone. Well, not everyone, but my friends. I feel like such a dork but I want everyone to know that this happened!
Second Wave Style
Because nothing is more stylish than revolution
Why not, she said.: I just poked around on Newsweek Brian’s Twitter and can I just say...
I just poked around on Newsweek Brian’s Twitter and can I just say that he is exactly like my younger coworker who is all up in everyone’s grill all the time like he actually knows anything and being totally unprofessional on social media at all times and thinks he can do everyone else’s job…
Also, he just changed Newsweek’s cursor to a coat hanger. I say we all start complaining.
Karen Elson is the Milla Jovovich of the ’10s. (P.S. I love the recorded version of this song but the live version is OMG. <3<3)
I just listened to Milla’s “Gentlemen Who Fell” and I revise my earlier statement. Karen Elson is WAY better than Milla. (Sorry, M. Jov.)
Miss America pageant protest. Because I never, ever get tired of women marching while carrying anti-sexist placards, especially if they do it while wearing cute and comfy shift dresses.
Photo courtesy of Jo Freeman.
More from the Miss America pageant protest. I would wear this outfit right. now. Preferably while droppin’ some mad critical theory on your asses.
Photo courtesy of the amazing Jo Freeman.
More from the Miss American protest. I am coveting these ladies’ dresses so hard!
Photo courtesy of National Public Radio.
A participant at the protest outside the 1968 Miss America pageant.
I don’t know about you, but I had heard for much of my life that feminists - particularly those of the second-wave - were ugly, unattractive, beast-women who turned to feminism only because they couldn’t get a man.
Well, I never really bought that, if only because my grandmother was a second-waver, and she was gorgeous and funny and classy with a much younger boyfriend.
But it wasn’t until I started reading up on second-wave feminist history myself that it hit me - these women were pretty stylish! I found myself inspired by their effortlessly cool looks, like they were always ready to smash the patriarchy without breaking a sweat.
So share your pictures of stylish second-wavers with me! Maybe we can start a (style) revolution of our own.
On Women’s Liberation Day, April 17, 1971. The New England Women’s Coalition marched from Copley Square Plaza to the Boston Common, where they had a rally.
Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes, circa 1970. Photograph by Dan Wynn.
