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Incredible photo project reveals the wide diversity of Americans in uniform 

Do you know what America’s veterans look like?

There are approximately 21.8 million veterans in the United States, according to the census. But it can be difficult sometimes to see the diversity of faces that make up such an imposing statistic. Here are a few things we do know: Out of 21.8 million veterans, approximately 1.3 million of them are living uninsured, according to the Urban Institute, while according to the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans, 60,000 veterans are currently homeless sleeping on our streets. 

A new photo series called The Soldier Art Project aims to change this, capturing the humans who inhabit the uniforms in powerful and often poignant portraits.

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Nov 12, 2014
Man Tapped To Draw The New Wonder Woman Doesn’t Want Her To Be “Feminist” David Finch, the artist who’s taking over DC Comics' Wonder Woman, says he wants the feminist icon to be “strong"—but not "feminist.” He said: “We want to make sure it’s a book...

Man Tapped To Draw The New Wonder Woman Doesn’t Want Her To Be “Feminist”

David Finch, the artist who’s taking over DC Comics' Wonder Woman, says he wants the feminist icon to be “strong"—but not "feminist.”

He said: “We want to make sure it’s a book that treats her as a human being first and foremost, but is also respectful of the fact that she represents something more. We want her to be a strong—I don’t want to say feminist, but a strong character. Beautiful, but strong.”

“That’s pretty funny,” Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, who created the film Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines. “She’s an obvious feminist role model for many people for many reasons…It’s like getting rid of her kryptonite to say that about her.”

Source: Mother Jones, image by DC Comics

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Jul 08, 2014
Women’s lives, according to book covers: cake, broken dishes, and legs. The book industry isn’t immune to trends. And neither are its covers, especially covers aimed at female readers. There was the trend of pristine and serene scenes of a woman (or...

Women’s lives, according to book covers: cake, broken dishes, and legs.

The book industry isn’t immune to trends. And neither are its covers, especially covers aimed at female readers. There was the trend of pristine and serene scenes of a woman (or women) on a beach.  Naked napes and shoulders of other unknown women became a hot trend in 2013. And now publishers catering to female readers have begun to warm up to the combination of legs, cake, and (broken) plates.

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Jun 06, 2014
Trailblazing Women You May Not Know (But Should): Mourning Dove Each week, the Lean In tumblr will spotlight women who made a lasting mark on the world — yet didn’t always end up in the history books. This week we celebrate Mourning Dove, the...

Trailblazing Women You May Not Know (But Should): Mourning Dove

Each week, the Lean In tumblr will spotlight women who made a lasting mark on the world — yet didn’t always end up in the history books. This week we celebrate Mourning Dove, the Founding Mother of Native American literature and one of the first Native women to publish a novel.

According to her own retelling, Christal Quintasket was born in a canoe crossing the Koontenai River in Idaho. It was a fitting start for a woman who would travel the country throughout her life to collect Native stories.

Quintasket grew up on the Kettle Falls reservation in the 1890s, learning her tribe’s history from her maternal grandmother. When she grew older she worked as a housekeeper and fruit picker to support herself and eventually, to save up for a typewriter. In 1927 she released her first book, Cogewea, The Half-Blood, about ahalf-blood girl caught between the worlds of Anglo ranchers and full-blood reservation Indians, under the name Mourning Dove. It was one of the first known novels ever published by a Native American woman. 

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Nov 29, 2013

November is American Indian Heritage month. Did you know that there are at least 562 federally recognized tribal nations in the U.S.? 

Matika Wilbur is attempting to photograph every one. Wilbur, of the Swinomish and Tulalip in Washington State, sold everything she owns to travel the nation taking portraits of her people. She calls the series Project 562 and aims to debunk myths about American Indian culture. “I’m not a Halloween costume. I hope to encourage a new conversation of sharing and to help us move beyond the stereotypes.”

“We are still here,” she says. “We remain.”

via The Daily Kos and Project 562

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Nov 27, 2013

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