🚨 Attn: #Women in the #fediverse and on #mastondon we need a hastag like #fedihelps for each other when the trolls descend so the squad shows up. Any ideas what it should be? 💅
Okay ladies big thank you to @jeze3D for coming up with #femstodon. Hit that #subscribe button to the hashtag, immediately. If you have a troll in your comments stepping over all civilised lines and need a squad, you add that hastag and help will be en route. Pass it on. 💋
Today in Labor History May 26, 1824: Women and girls led the first recorded factory strike in US history. 102 women and girls walked off the job at Slater Mill, in Pawtucket, and picketed their factory.
Two days prior, the owners had increased working hours by an hour per day with no additional pay. Additionally, they slashed the pay of power-loom weavers by 25%. Those affected were all women and girls aged 15 to 30. According to the bosses, the girls had already been earning “extravagant wages.”
The owners were caught off guard. They were not expecting a protest. Indeed, no U.S. factories had ever experienced a strike. Perhaps even more shocking, other workers and community members joined them in solidarity. They blockaded the mills and hurled rocks at the mansions of the owners. On the final day of the week-long strike, workers set one of the mills on fire. The next day, the owners agreed to negotiate and agreed on a compromise.
"Girls aren’t fearless. Girls are terrified. And their activism isn’t naive. It’s not “innocent.” It’s the reasoned result of the stomach-churning awareness that girls can’t count on someone else to save them...
11 February 1940 | Dutch Jewish girl, Carla Meijer, was born in Amsterdam (middle).
She was deported to Auschwitz from Westerbork with her sisters Mia and Hetty in October 1943. They were all murdered is a gas chamber after arrival selection with their mother Margaretha.
It is with great disappointment that we must inform you that while we will be at DEF CON this year, it will not be as an official DEF CON Village. We were recently notified leadership collectively decided to not accept our village application for inclusion at DEF CON 31. While we are saddened by this outcome, we understand that they have determined we no longer meet the criteria for village participation.
As a girls' organization dedicated to promoting cybersecurity education and awareness, we remain steadfast in our belief that diversity is critical to creating a safe and secure cyber world. While some would relegate us to an affinity group, Girls Hack, and as 25% of the cyber industry, we have equal rights for space, opportunity, and representation at cybersecurity conferences. Shirley Chisholm once said if they don’t give you a seat at the table bring a folding chair.
Our organization will continue to strive towards this goal, and we are proud to announce that the Girl Hack Village mission will live on in a standalone event.
We understand that hosting such events requires resources, and we are committed to fundraising and garnering support from our community and donors to ensure that women will continue to have a seat at the table even if we have to create our own. We believe that our dedication to cybersecurity education and awareness is worthy of support, and we will continue to seek out opportunities to advance this cause.
If you agree and would like to see our mission continue, we are currently accepting donations. Any and all support is greatly appreciated.
"under the #Taliban ’s ever-increasing restrictions, #school is prohibited for #girls after the 6th grade, and #work options for #women are few. Sequestered at home, a #girl becomes just another mouth to feed. But... A $2,000 bride price is enough to feed a family for a year...
The school year began on Wednesday in Afghanistan, albeit without the girls whom the Taliban barred from classes starting from the sixth grade, making it the only country with restrictions on female education.
May the artwork take both you and the person to whom you send the card to a place of simplicity and joy, where life does not have to be convoluted and fearful, but normal and healthy and . . . good.