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Emma Goldman — born #onthisday in 1869 — was a radical critic of capitalism, the state, patriarchy and colonialism during the fertile political years of the late 19th and early 20th century. More on her life and “anarchism without adjectives” here: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/emma-goldmans-anarchism-without-adjectives #otd

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39 years today since Jim Henson's cult classic 'Labyrinth' was released on June 27th 1986, with George Lucas as executive producer, starring Jennifer Connelly as Sarah Williams and David Bowie as Jareth the Goblin King.

(Original illustration by Kevin M Wilson https://www.apemeetsgirl.com)

#Labyrinth #OTD #Movies #Cinemastodon #FilmMastodon #80s #JimHenson #OnThisDay #Art #Artwork #Illustration

Illustration showing Sarah from the Labyrinth sitting in her bedroom, wearing her distinctive outfit from the film, sitting with her legs crossed on the bed holding a book and reading it with visible fascination as she is surrounded by most of the main characters from the film including Hoggle the dwarf, Ludo, a brown horned beast, William the worm, a blue worm-like creature wearing a tiny red scarf around its neck, Sir Didymus a talking Yorkshire Terrier wearing an eye patch and Ambrosius the dog sitting next to the bed near them. In the room there are several items referencing both the film and other Jim Henson works including the Muppets and The Dark Crystal, including a picture of Henson himself holding Kermit the frog hanging on the wall.

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#OnThisDay, 18 July 1976, Romanian Nadia Comăneci becomes the first gymnast to score a perfect 10 at the Olympics. She broke the scoreboards as they only went to 9.99.

In 1989, having lived under tight surveillance and control since she was a child, she defected to the USA by walking through the night from Romania to Hungary.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #OlympicWomen

Nadia Comăneci dismounting the parallel bars. She is a teenage girl, curving as if in flight.

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Today in 1969, 56 years ago: in New York the Stonewall riots are unleashed, a series of altercations in favor of the rights of transgender and homosexual people that took place around the Stonewall Inn bar.

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#OnThisDay, 30 June 1966 Pauli Murray, Betty Friedan and 26 others founded the National Organisation for Women (NOW) in the USA.

NOW are currently campaigning for abortion rights, LGBTQ+ rights, racial and economic justice and the end to violence against women and girls.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

photo of Pauli Murray: a black civil rights lawyer and eventually a priest.

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photo of Betty Friedan: a white woman, author of the Feminine Mystique which is credited with launching second wave feminism.

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#OnThisDay, 1 Jul 2015, Misty Copeland becomes the first Black woman to be a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre. She has just announced she will retire in October 2025.

Here's an article on the implicit - and sometimes explicit - racism in ballet which helps explain why Copeland's success was ground-breaking: https://buff.ly/3sVpik9

Misty Copeland on a photoshoot. She is a Black woman wearing shorts and a t-shirt. She is en pointe in trainers.

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#OnThisDay, 2 Jul 1928, the UK's Representation of the People Act comes into effect, finally giving women equal voting rights to men. It increases the number of women eligible to vote to 15 million.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons