Rebecca Sive

.@JMSparrow hosts a remarkable, inspirational podcast, Fearless Authenticity. I’m honored to have joined her this International Women’s Day Week to discuss in the context of advocating for equal justice and opportunity for women and girls. Thanks, Jeanne!#InternationalWomensDay

Margaret Preston (1875-1963), Australian painter/printmaker regarded as one of Australia's leading modernists of the early 20thc

'Avatar Reef' teapot by UK based ceramicist Delfina Emmanuel, who creates work often inspired by marine life #WomensArt

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Happy heavenly birthday to my sister, my mentor and my hero, Karen Lewis. Karen's memory will forever live on in Chicago as an unmatched force for equity and justice in public education. I carry her wisdom and spirit in my heart every single day.

Botanically-accurate knitted sculptures of flowers by artist Tatyana Yanishevsky #womensart

@JMSparrow Congrats!

Just realized that today marks 6 years since I incorporated my business. It hasn’t been easy and I’ve taken some big losses with the wins but I’m proud to still be here. ✊🏽

“I’m a remarkable woman..always was, though none of you seemed to think so.”May Morris, English artist embroiderer, designer, feminist and socialist. Dismayed by the lack of support for women artists, she founded the Women’s Guild of Arts, 1907 #WomensArt

48 years ago today, on July 5, 1975, Arthur Ashe became the first Black man to win a #Wimbledon  singles title. That same year, I won the Wimbledon women’s singles title, and we shared a dance together at the ball. #HistoryMatters 📷: Alamy

If SCOTUS was serious about their ludicrous “colorblindness” claims, they would have abolished legacy admissions, aka affirmative action for the privileged. 70% of Harvard’s legacy applicants are white. SCOTUS didn’t touch that - which would have impacted them and their patrons.

The peony will flourish, as I said, in half-shade; indeed its brag of size and colour gains from the broken light of overhanging branches. penshurstplace.com/explore/see/ga…

Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882 -1941) Important author and a pioneer of ‘stream of Consciousness’ which she used as a narrative device. These are her books and she designed the covers for them

@rebeccamakkai Kitty Wells, Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, Maybelle Carter.

August 8, 1982. A line drive foul ball hits a four year old boy in the head at Fenway. Jim Rice, realizing in a flash that it would take EMTs too long to arrive and cut through the crowd, sprang from the dugout and scooped up the boy. He laid the boy gently on the dugout floor, where the Red Sox medical team began to treat him. When the boy arrived at the hospital 30 minutes later, doctors said, without a doubt that Jim's prompt actions saved the boy's life. Jim returned to the game in a blood-stained uniform. A real badge of courage. After visiting the boy in the hospital, and realizing the family was of modest means, he stopped by the business office and instructed that the bill be sent to him. This is what a sports Hero looks like! ❤

@MaddowBlog How about “his getting indicted…”

Rachel Maddow argues that where we went astray as a country was when the Republican Party elevated such a compromised person to be their standard bearer and presidential nominee. "Him getting indicted was an inevitability."

Olga Kvasha, contemporary artist born in Lutsk, Ukraine #WomensArt

History books are gonna have a FIELD DAY with the fact that the guy who spent the entire 2016 election accusing his opponent of mishandling classified information (she didn’t) became the first former president to be indicted for exactly that.

Guess who is NOT going to appear in court this Tuesday in Miami facing 7 counts?

@ashtonpittman Paper maps are still important. You can’t get the lay of the land on GPS or evaluate why your alternative choices may be. Plus, there’s the joy of finding country roads.

You asked people for directions (especially gas station clerks) and you could buy physical maps at pretty much any road stop.

@NYFarmer Very cool!

Some women dropped off literature for farm women organization they are trying to reinvigorate. Prior generations of women fought for farmer Justice. Pretty much all forgotten.

@LynnBecker Exactly.

Greed is all. The McCaskeys are trolling for a suburb with the elected officials most willing to sell out their constituents to stick taxpayers with as much of the bill for a new Bears stadium/megadevelopment as possible. chicago.suntimes.com/2023/6/2/23747…