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Paul Chambers🚧

Student Censored — 'Art is supposed to get people talking' | Adams County, Ohio student's Women's History mural deemed 'inappropriate'

Her art class was assigned to create a mural inspired by Australian artist Buff Diss, who creates murals out of tape

Student, "I chose to do something for Women's History Month, Greenfield said. I wanted to say kinda, my body, my choice and be a voice for young women."

The mural Greenfield created depicts a man crossing his arms next to the outline of a woman. The woman is pregnant, with a fetus shown in her stomach, and has a piece of tape over her mouth and her hands tied behind her back.

"The duct-tape over the mouth really represented how women's voices are always shunned," Greenfield said. "And then the hands being tied back, how they're always like kind of trapped.

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Georgiann Baldino

"Wells didn’t wear a helmet, nor carry a pistol, handcuffs or a club. But that didn’t stop her from exercising her authority as a newly appointed Los Angeles police officer—the first policewoman in the city’s history and one of the first in the United States." Smithsonian smithsonianmag.com/history/arm #WomensHistory

After a trolley conductor accused Alice Stebbins Wells of using her husband's police badge to avoid paying for public transit, the Los Angeles Police Department allowed her to wear a more feminine uniform of her own design, along with a special “Policewoman’s Badge No. 1.” Illustration by Meilan Solly / Images via Los Angeles Police Department and Newspapers.com and Smithsonian Magazine
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Georgiann Baldino

After the 1860 the North and the South developed secret service organizations. KY actress Pauline Cushman spied for the Union & earned her the sobriquet "Spy of the Cumberland." After boldly toasting Jefferson Davis She spied among Southern troops & secured information valuable to Federal forces. Union troops rescued Cushman from being hanged after her true loyalties were discovered. She later received an honorary major's commission from Lincoln.
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Miss Major Pauline Cushman, the Union spy and scout, who was captured and sentenced to death as a Federal spy, and was rescued at Shelbyville by the Union Army under Gen. Rosecrans. From photographic negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery. circa 1865, Library of Congress LC-DIG-ppmsca-40697
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CarveHerName

#OnThisDay, 13 Mar 1990, Ertha Pascal-Trouillot became the provisional president of Haiti. She was the first woman to hold the role.

She stabilised the country for long enough for it to hold a free and fair election.

“I accepted the position in the name of Haitian women. I did it as a service to my country. I did it with love and determination.”

Photo of Ertha Pascal-Trouillot in front of Haiti's flag. She is a Black woman with black hair.
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