If you look over this site a bit you will see that I am a big fan of Hillary Clinton. And I sure hope that she secures the nomination. And then goes on to win the election in November!
While looking at political stories online I came across a great article on the Guardian site. It is an article on Chelsea Clinton, which is not what you usually see. Be sure to check out the article, How Chelsea Clinton finally came of age, for your self.
Have you ever tried to play a regular guitar? I did when I was younger. And it was hard! It seemed like my hands were not big enough to play it.
Apparently, that was not far from the truth. And apparently someone decided to do something about it. In fact, there are guitars out there that are made just for girls. Did you know that? If you do not believe me just check out Daisy Rock Guitars. They are made specifically for girls. How awesome is that?!
It is interesting how many haters there are out there against Hillary Clinton. And a lot of them are hatin’ on her just because she is a woman. Yet no one seems to care.
Apparently Facebook does not care either. I was reading on the Bust magazine site this. Apparently Facebook has a policy against hate speech yet they let all of these clearly sexist anti-Hillary sites pop up. For the complete article on this, check it out here.
Have you heard about this? It is a new film that just came out called Girl’s Rock, The Movie. It is a documentary about a session of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls in Portland, OR.
Here’s a synopsis from Bust magazine:
Girls Rock!
Directed by Shane King and Arne Johnson
(Girls Rock Productions)
Tearjerker and rockumentary are two genres that don’t generally go hand in hand. But you’ll need a hanky and your Joan Jett lighter when watching Girls Rock!, a documentary chronicling one session of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls in Portland, OR. Weaving interviews with campers and counselors together with insightful feminist factoids and an amazing femme-rock score, the film paints an inspiring portrait of how camp uses musicianship to help girls bond, build self-esteem, and rock out.
Audiences get an insider’s view of the camp experience by following four girls through the trials and joys of becoming rock ‘n’ rollers. Laura, a 15-year-old adopted Korean girl from Oklahoma, is musically talented and friendly but has cripplingly low self-esteem. Palace, the eight-year-old daughter of a boutique owner, comes to camp eager to rock but is preoccupied with her appearance and doesn’t know how to compromise. “Weird girl†Amelia, also eight, has a passion for noise rock, yet lacks communication skills. And 17-year-old Misty comes to camp from a group home and has a hard time letting people past her tough-girl image.
The filmmakers didn’t shy away from turning their lens on the campers’ lonely moments of girlhood: lingering on how they long to fit in and be accepted, and how self-doubt and cliquishness threaten to stifle both their social and musical progress. But inspired by their counselors, the girls eventually shed their inhibitions, dive into their instruments, and find their voices. These superstar counselors (including Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney and Beth Ditto of Gossip) relate throughout the film how they use music to help campers counteract the social pressures to be quiet and docile, and it obviously works; when you see these formerly awkward girls make their debuts in a concert for more than 600 people, you’ll want to throw the devil horns and cry.
See original post and trailer here.
I came across an interesting website today. It is called the Children’s Encyclopedia of Women.
Apparently this site was started by some 3rd and 4th grade students in 1998. It is kind of a wikipedia of women in history. Only it is not editable by the general public. And it does not use the wiki software, but you get my point.
You can search by subject or last name. And they also have a timeline on the site.
If you check it out, be warned that it does not appear to be Firefox friendly 
When one thinks of pirates, usually the first thing to come to mind is the infamous Blackbeard. What does not come to mind is women pirates. Rarely is Anne Bonny brought up. Bonny was a female pirate that could wreak as much havoc as Blackbeard or any other male pirates. But Anne Bonny was not the only female pirate to sail the seas.
Some known female pirates are:
Queen Artemisia of Halicarnassus (in Greece) was a known pirate around 480 B.C. in the Mediterranean region.
Elissa, commonly known as “Dido” was a pirate in 470 B.C., also in the Mediterranean region. She is also the legendary founder of Carthage.
Queen Teuta of Illyria was a pirate in the Adriatic Sea circa 232 B.C. to 228 B.C.
Norwegian Vikings Princess Sela, Princess Rusla, Russila and her sister Stikla pirated the seas between 420 A.D and 800 A.D.
Other female Viking pirates believed to sail the seas post 800 A.D. are Wigbiorg, Hetha, Wisna, Alfhild (a.k.a. Ælfhild, Alwilda, Alvilda), Ladgerda and Æthelflæd, who was known as the “Lady of the Mercias.”
A fairly famous pirate in the 1500’s was Grace O’Malley, who was also know to go by Granuaile, Grainne O’Malley. She commanded three galleys and 200 men in the Atlantic.
Between 1500 – 1800, it is estimated that hundreds of Chinese female pirates roamed the seas. Supposedly whole families of pirates lived at sea, including mothers, wives, daughters, and servant girls. Some were forced, some voluntarily joined and some were born into piracy.
Other pirates of the late 1500’s to early 1800’s include Lady Killigrew who sailed the Atlantic during 1530-1570, and Mrs. Peter Lambert of Aldeburgh, Suffolk pirated in the late 1500’s. The 1600’s saw Elizabetha Patrickson pirating in 1634, and Caribbean buccaneers Jacquotte Delahaye and Anne Dieu-le-veut were around in 1650s-1660s. The 1680’s saw an anonymous Indian Pirate Queen sailing the Arabian Sea and La Marquise de Frèsne was in the Mediterranean in the late 1600s.
It wasn’t until around 1720 that Anne Bonny, sometimes using the aliases Ann Bonn, Fulford, and Sarah Bonny, terrorized the Caribbean. At the same time, Mary Read, sometimes using the alias Mark Read, was also in the Caribbean.
Several women worked off the east coast of the United States in the 1700s and 1800s including Mary Harvey (or Harley), who used the alias Mary Farlee in 1725-1726, Mary Crickett, sometimes Crichett in 1728, Rachel Wall in the 1780s, Charlotte Badger and Sadie the Goat in the early 1800s.
China also had its share of notorious female pirates. Qi Sao in the South China Sea commanded a fleet of 20 ships. Li, the wife of Chen Acheng, was also in the South China Sea in the early 1800s and was believed to be involved in at least 10 robberies at sea with her husband before she was captured and made the slave of a military officer. Shi Xainggu, who was better known as Cheng I Sao, Ching Yih Saou, or Zheng Yi Sao, was in the South China Sea between 1801-1810 and commanded five or six squadrons consisting of 800 large junks, about 1,000 smaller vessels, and between 70,000 and 80,000 men and women. And Cai Quin Ma, Matron Cai Quin was also in the South China Sea in the early 1800s. T’ang Ch’en Ch’ia, known by the alias “Golden Grace,” was another prominent female pirate of this time.
In other regions, Catherine Hagerty was a pirate off the coast of Australia and New Zealand in 1806. The Canadian East Coast saw Margaret Jordan in the waters in 1809. Also in Canada was Gertrude Imogene Stubbs, often using the alias “Gunpowder Gertie, the Pirate Queen of the Kootenays.” She used Kootenay Lake and river system of British Columbia, Canada between 1898-1903.
Lo Hon-cho, known as Honcho Lo, took over command on husband’s death in 1921, was a supporter of the Chinese revolution. In 1922, Wong, another female pirate, united her 50 ship fleet with Lo Hon-cho’s 64 junks.
Between 1922 – 1939, Lai Sho Sz’en commanded 12 junks in the South China Sea. And in 1936, P’en Ch’ih Ch’iko commanded 100 pirates. 1937-1950 saw Huang P’ei-mei as a leader of some 50,000 pirates.
It seems that Eliot Spitzer has been all over the news these past few days. Personally, I do not care that he has a weakness for prostitutes. However, I think he should have thought about his wife and kids and decided which he wanted – the family or the hookers. But it is too late for that now.
And I am tired of seeing his wife at his side at his press conferences. I am so tired of women that ‘stand by their men’ in times like this. When will it end? When will women be strong enough to realize that they do not have to put up with that kind of crap?
The NAWSA disbanded as an organization after gaining the right to vote.
That gave birth to the League of Women Voters.
The women of the NAWSA had won the battle to vote. However, the vote was not enough to secure women’s equal rights according to Alice Paul, founder of the National Woman’s Party (NWP).
She moved to take women’s rights one step further by proposing the Equal Rights Amendment (E.R.A.) to Congress in 1923. This demand to eliminate discrimination on the basis of gender failed to pass.
The push for the E.R.A. continued on a state-by-state basis, until the newly formed National Organization for Women (NOW) launched a national campaign during the 1960′s. Despite many heated debates and protests, the E.R.A. , while passed by Congress in 1972, has never been ratified.
If you are a woman then you should know the Nineteenth Amendment. As a woman, it is the most important amendment for you.
If you do not know the 19th Amendment, you should learn it. Below is the Nineteenth Amendment that gave women the right to vote. Finally.
AMENDMENT XIX
1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
2. Congress shall have power to enforce this Article by appropriate legislation.
It was ratified August 26, 1920.
Together they were stronger. And they were serious about getting the right to vote.
In fact, Susan B. Anthony was arrested for attempting to vote for Ulysses S. Grant in the 1872 presidential election.
Six years later, in 1878, a Woman’s Suffrage Amendment was introduced to U.S. Congress.
With the formation of numerous groups, such as the Women’s Christian Temperence Union (WCTU), the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) ,the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) and, the Women’s Trade Union League, the women’s movement gained a full head of steam during the 1890′s and early 1900′s.
The U.S. involvement in World War I in 1918 slowed down the suffrage campaign as women pitched in for the war effort.
In 1919, after years of petitioning, picketing, and protest parades, the Nineteenth Amendment was passed by both houses of Congress and in 1920 it became ratified under the presidency of Woodrow Wilson.
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