Other classrooms: J.K.Rowling, Oprah, Catherine the Great... I sorta want to do Angela Davis, but some chud might try to get me fired on Twitter. Thinking maybe AOC. Why do all the really based women have "Marxist" in their Wikipedia pages?
You're not going to get in trouble for doing Angela Davis
oh just remembered another one — Malala Yousafzai, libs will probably be on board with here since lib media stopped talking about her as soon as she started talking about Marxism
Malala Yousafzai
Any source to read more about that? I know nothing, but the last I read about her were favorable views about some Marxist organization.
All the articles I can find are op-eds whining about people criticizing her, but here:
https://www.albawaba.com/editors-choice/nobel-prize-winner-malala-yousafzai-blasted-social-media-supporting-conservative
Also, it was a Trotskyist organization, so this wouldn't be the first time...
Kinda.
https://www.albawaba.com/editors-choice/nobel-prize-winner-malala-yousafzai-blasted-social-media-supporting-conservative
Sounds like she's not a Tory, just supported a Tory friend for some student body thing, with an asterisk that it's not a reflection of her political views? Which isn't great, but is a sort of understandable thing from a college-age kid, hopefully doesn't mean much beyond that
Tbh I side-eye whoever wants her deported for that waaay more. "No masters no borders except for this young woman with a shitty friend"
While serving a life sentence for murder, she escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility for Women in 1979. She surfaced in Cuba in 1984, where she was granted political asylum. Shakur has lived in Cuba since, despite US government efforts to have her returned. She has been on the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list since 2013 as Joanne Deborah Chesimard and was the first woman to be added to this list.
Based af
Davis has won enough lib awards too that you could make a case for it if questioned probably (like Time women of the year and stuff)
If you need some cool but not communist women for cover, Hedy Lamarr is very cool, being a big movie star and inventing the radio technology that underlies Bluetooth, and I think I would've had more positive ideas about femininity as a kid if I'd heard of her
Edit: a couple more STEM Women(tm): Rosalind Franklin, Ada Lovelace, Emmy Noether, Katherine Johnson (from hidden figures), Marie Curie
Tempted to go Lyudmila Pavlichenko. Who could mind a nazi killer. I'm worried a bit about being too open a commie in my workplace though.
Ida B. Wells, Helen Keller, Marsha Johnson, Mother Jones, Dorthy Day, Rosa Parks, Constance Markievicz, Frida Kahlo
Rosa Luxemburg would be great but I see she's already been recommended.
Rosa Luxemburg, Emma Goldman, Angela Davis, or Frida Kahlo?
You def want to pick someone your students will be interested in (like their story can relate to wherever you're at/what they're going through now) otherwise what's the point? Lol
Plus one for Frida Kahlo as there are so many things to discuss.
Mother Jones was pretty fucking based.
Oh! Do Bessie Coleman!
It’s not just me saying this. You can find some of her speeches now or from a few years ago that are waaaaaay less radical or revolutionary than previous ones.
Maybe Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, she was an IWW member, a founder of the ACLU, not straight in early-mid 20th century US, and she had a state funeral in red square in the 1960s
