Revolutionary Women Tapestries

Revolutionary Women

The most revolutionary thing a woman can do is not explain herself. -Glennon Doyle

Revolution

Women hold up half of the sky.

“Women workers take up your rifles” - A revolutionary poster of 1917.

A portrait of the great Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940), a Russian-born anarchist, political activist, and writer. She was pivotal in developing anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the 20th century. Goldman was imprisoned several times for "inciting to riot" and illegally distributing information about birth control. In 1906, Goldman founded the anarchist journal Mother Earth.

live large and take charge! Francisco "Pancho" Villa (born José Doroteo Arango Arámbula; 5 June 1878 – 20 July 1923) was a Mexican Revolutionary general and one of the most prominent figures of the Mexican Revolution.

poster representing dancing women in red, abstract and colorful

Thomas Sankara quote: "“Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women. May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence. I hear the roar of women’s silence. I sense the rumble of their storm and feel the fury of their revolt.” From Sankara's work; "Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle"

Mujeres Libres, 1936 Barcelona