L.A.D.I.E.S.---Ladies Adding Distinction In Every Stride. We are an newly formed organization at CNU hoping to empower women of all races.TBC. hide
afrikanwomen: Fatima Meer (12 August 1928 - 12 March 2010) was a South African writer, academic, screenwriter, and prominent anti-apartheid activist. She was born in Durban. She completed her schooling at the Durban Indian Girls High School and later attended the University of Natal, where she completed a Masters degree in Sociology. In 1946, Meer joined many other South African Indians in a passive resistance campaign against apartheid, during which she started the Student Passive Resistance Committee. She also helped to establish the Durban District Women’s League, an organisation started in order to build alliances between Africans and Indians as a result of the race riots between the two groups in 1949. After the National Party gained power in 1948 and started implementing their policy of apartheid, Meer’s activism increased; she was one of the founding members of the Federation of South African Women. In the 1960s, she organised night vigils to protest against the mass detention of anti-apartheid activists without trial. During the 1970s she was banned and later detained without trial for trying to organise a political rally with Black Consciousness Movement figure Steve Biko. She narrowly survived an assassination attempt shortly after her release from detention in 1976 when she was shot at her family home in Durban. 
halkahalkasuroor: just look at how cool i am. 
templeofthemuses: Lendu woman in her garden - DR CONGO - by C.Stramba-Badiali on Flickr.
zappho: Sophie Scholl: German resistance heroine

chaos.: what an inspiration.. ↘

femmenist:

Congresswoman Gabby Gifford,

You are an inspiration to women everywhere. Your strength is absolutely incredible and every time I see the progress you have made, I know that I can make it through any struggles that come my way. You’re husband is a great man and yes, I cried when I saw him on the…