If you’re interested, there’s a charity based in Afghanistan called SKATEISTAN, teaching kids how to skateboard. Find out more about them them here. Check it out!
Afghan girl practising skateboarding tricks in traditonal dress by UK in Afghanistan on Flickr.
This is what I call being radical! haha totally rad.
I’m totes going to reblog this picture every time I see it because I love this girl.
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“Scientific Mating” on the cover of the April, 1924 issue of Science and Invention magazine
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Raden Ayu Kartini (1879-1904)
Per Javanese noble tradition, Kartini was secluded at home from the age of 12 until her marriage at age 24. Removed from school, Kartini read widely with a particular focus on the emancipation of women. She wrote and was published in De Hollandsche Lelie (The Dutch Lily), a Dutch magazine for young women.
At age 24, she unwillingly became the third wife of the polygamous Regent Chief of Rembang. He supported her interest in women’s education and helped her to create a female academy in the district. Less than a year after her marriage, Kartini died after giving birth to her son Soesalit.
After her death, the Minister for Culture, Religion and Industry in the East Indies collected the letters Kartini had written to her Dutch penpals. In 1911, they were published in a book entitled Door Duisternis tot Licht (Out of Dark Comes Light). Eventually translated into Malay and Javanese, these letters improved the Dutch understanding of the native Javanese and contributed to social change in Indonesia. Inspired by these letters, the Van Deventer family created the R.A. Kartini Foundation to established schools for women in Java.
Since 1964, April 21 has been Karini Day, a national holiday in Indonesia.
Kang Tongbi (Kang Tung Pih) 康同璧, circa 1905.
The daughter of a Chinese intellectual, Tongbi was the first Asian student at Barnard. After the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911, Tongbi returned to China and became involved in feminist causes. Unlike many other women of her class, Tongbi’s feet had never been bound as her parents objected to the practice. In Shanghai, Tongbi co-founded a Tianzuhui (Natural Feet Society) with a female doctor. Tongbi also edited Nüxuebao (Women’s Education), one of the first women’s journals in China, and published a biography of her father Kang Youwei. In the 1920s, she helped organize the Shanghai Women’s Association, which petitioned the Nationalist government in Nanjing for a new constitution under the slogan, “Down with the warlords and up with equality between men and women.”.
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Edmonia Lewis (1845-1909) was an African American and Native American sculptor that would find success despite discrimination for her race and gender. She was an art student at Oberlin College and would excel in her courses but would later drop out after being accused of theft and poisoning two classmates; this led to a mob beating her up severely, only to have her acquitted of any wrong doing at trial. She would later move to Boston to further her education in sculpting. Her big break would come in 1864 with a bust she made of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw being widely celebrated and selling many copies; this would supply her with enough money to move to Rome. She would spend most of her adult career in Italy and became a highly paid and internationally respected sculptor.Two of her most notable works are: Forever Free and The Death of Cleopatra.
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