#Heroines

I should do some intro threads on some of the metal hero actor greats maybe I am doing that thing!#1: Kenji OhbaThe man, the myth, the legend. Plenty of you
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Happy 200th birthday to Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman in America to receive a medical degree A thread:#OTD #histmed #womenphysiciansday #WomenInMedicine #medhum #ElizabethBlackwell If you’ve met Elizabeth Blackwell, it was probably
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Anna is a better heroine than Moana1) Anna has more working against her emotionally and thus more to overcome2) Her journey is more perilous 3) Her final victory comes from
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I don't fault anyone who likes Miyazaki films but I've never really been able to immerse myself in them in the same way that Summer Wars just makes me anxious.
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(Thread on Black womanhood, representations and French cinema) - So today, someone (ecstatically) told me, upon finding that I was from France, that they #Girlhood. I don’t .I just
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Okay, here we go. Not specifying exact number in case I suddenly realise 1 or more I forgot, but 15+ YA books available in UK bookshops (mostly #UKYA authors but
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Thread (1/n)The kind of women that people need to follow in this age of fake "heroines". A thread, and something special if you stuck until the end:1. @sharrmasumann- World's 1st
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It might not be fair to say I found The Queen's Gambit demoralizing, but it would be accurate. Like The Aeronauts, it's part of a troubling media project of male
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I have a long list of shows, beginning with Game of Thrones and The 100, whose creators were ultimately not equipped for the seismic cultural transition of the Trump era
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Still thinking about the Buffyverse and how a key creator of something so beloved could be such a shit, very much along patriarchal lines -- which bounced off that essay
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the lesser known gender dimension of the (colonial) migration to Xinjiang in the early years of the PRC. a thread.After the republic was founded, thousands of soldiers were placed in
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Good morning #Twittistorian! This is @sliptonmedieval, tweeting about #Imagesashistory. Yesterday we looked at the afterlife of medieval anti-Jewish caricature in modern political cartoons. But we've seen only 1 Jewish woman!
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Today a THREAD of Scottish WWII sheroes who shone in adversity. 1st resistance fighter & nurse Mary Helen Young helped prisoners escape Nazi-occuped France. Killed in Ravensbruck, novelist, Simone St
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thread of sapphic books that are still coming out in 2020 Cinderella Is Dead - July 7th, 2020 Girl, Serpent, Thorn - July 7th, 2020 Iron Heart (Crier’s War
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It's wednesday! Which means, another #ItalianHistory thread. This time, I want to talk about one of the most fascinating and tragic figures of Italian Renaissance: the painter Artemisia Gentileschi CW:
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