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Miriam Makeba interview, 1969

Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 10 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a Grammy Award winning South African singer and civil rights activist. She actively campaigned against the South African system of apartheid. As a result, the South African government revoked her citizenship and right of return. After the end of apartheid she returned home.

A fresh-faced, best-selling author who pens raunchy tales of young professionals in India.

The real test of Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratic credential lies here.

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB4s5b9NL3I)

The Nightmare (alternate version) by Fussli, 1802.

Women scientists made up 25% of the Pluto fly-by New Horizon team. Make sure you share this, because erasing women’s achievements in science and history is a tradition. Happens every day. http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20150712

Robert Frost: Darkness or Light? : The New Yorker

Lacey Roop - “For Billy” (WoWPS 2014)

"Crack the glowsticks in your halo. Burn so beautiful that if the sun ever looked at you he’d go blind." Performing during prelims at the 2014 Women of the World Poetry Slam.

IMG_0333 by Pooja Pant on Flickr.

Working Women's Day Celebrations, Nepal.

John Smith on Imperialism in the 21st Century John Smith’s book on imperialism is a groundbreaking work revealing the super-exploitation of the global south. Daphna Whitmore from Redline interviewed him about his book.