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Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842), French portrait painter. Her subjects included Marie Antoinette and she enjoyed the patronage of European aristocrats, actors, and writers, and was elected to art academies in ten cities #WomensArt
Painting featuring the head and shoulders of a white woman facing right looking outwards, wearing a scarf like hat and scarf on her neck
November 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Georgia O'Keeffe.
Evening Star, No. III. 1917
#WomensArt
Semi adstract painting with a sun or circular gold star surrounded by red and orange lines over two bluey green horizontal lines
November 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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'The night the sky showered us with stars" by Sarah Morgan, contemporary artist and printmaker #WomensArt
November 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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We are horrified by reports of yet another racially motivated rape.

We stand in solidarity with the woman attacked in Walsall.

Black and minoritised women are disproportionately targeted with male violence and systematically failed when they report this abuse. We demand justice!
We are horrified by yet another report of racially motivated rape in the UK. Headline that reads: man charged with racially aggravated rape in Walsall. Black and minoritised women and girls are paying the price of racist far-right narratives legitimised by those in positions of power. End Violence Against Women
October 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Croydon sisters stepping up to help Jamaica hurricane victims insidecroydon.com/2025/10/30/c... #Croydon #Hurricane #HurricaneMelissa #Jamaica @itvnews.bsky.social @rosslydall.bsky.social
Croydon sisters stepping up to help Jamaica hurricane victims
Two sisters from South Croydon have set themselves a challenging goal of walking 22 kilometres – more than 13 miles – to try to raise thousands of pounds to help those affected in Jamai…
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October 30, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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”The homeward road was very long, I haven’t met a soul
Now the evenings grow gloomier and colder
Come comfort me a little, for the journey takes its toll
And I’m suddenly so alone"
Tove Jansson's lyrics for
'The #Autumn Song' 🍂🧡🍂
(Via Moomins FB).
Illustration in black and white of a figure in a large hat sitting at in a dark forest with a small creature
October 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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“I hope you always find a reason to smile." ❤
- Maya Angelou
#WomensArt
Monochrome photograph featuring the upper half of a Black woman, wearing a head scatf and white blouse, while laughing with head tilted back
October 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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A sklfully embroidered banner made by UK suffragettes in their workshops was recently found stowed away in a little charity shop in Leeds. The once-forgotten item sold at auction for £13,600 #UnravellingWomensArt
Purple and gold embroidered suffrage banner with text including 'Manchester' and 'The fight founded by Mrs Pankhurst 1903'
October 21, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Here’s an amazing opportunity to own a set of #InsideNo9 script books signed by over 80 guest stars from our West End run of Stage/Fright. Ian McKellen, Phoebe Waller Bridge, Lenny Henry, S Pegg, E Paige, J Ross all for @DerianHouse ❤️https://www.jumblebee.co.uk/insideno9stage
October 20, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Betty Acquah, Ghanaian painter,
Heart of innocence, 2021 #WomensArt
October 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Ælfgyva, one of only three females figures portrayed in The Bayeux Tapestry, a medieval masterpiece created by women artisan embroiderers in the 11th century #womensart
October 16, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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Did they think that hanging up flags, spray-painting and smashing the venue windows would stop us?

#FiLiA2025 in #Brighton has started!

See you there.

Sisterhood and Solidarity!
October 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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US photographer Dorothea Lange documented female shipyard workers- Kaiser shipyard, California, WW2, 1943 #womensart

#BlackHistoryMonth
Monochrome photograph of a young Black women worker, in overalls and with a welder's visor lifted up on her head, sitting in sunlight against a wall
October 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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A recent photo of a starling murmuration as if smoke from a chimney has been called a "fluke" by its Yorkshire based, UK photographer, Anna Tosney #WomensArt
October 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Autumn painting by US modern impressionist Erin Hanson #WomensArt
Painting with a view of trees with orange leaves and twisted branches in a landscape
October 4, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Beckenham town centre closed off after massive rooftop fire insidecroydon.com/2025/09/30/b... #Beckenham #Bromley @london-fire.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social
Beckenham town centre closed off after massive rooftop fire
Beckenham town centre was shutdown this morning, as a fire raged on the high street, close to the Odeon cinema, which needed 10 fire engines and 70 firefighters to bring under control. According to…
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September 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Young Syrian refugees paint murals at Zataari camp Jordan, to overcome trauma and memories of violence #womensart
Photo of a young smiling girl in an orange top, head and shoulders, standing in front of a pink mural featuring children's drawings of an octopus and fish
September 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Faith Humphrey Hill, US artist and knitter who combines knitting, embroidery and paint to create portraits #WomensArt
Textile, knitted, sewn and painted pictorial artwork featuring the head and shoulders of a smiling young Black woman facing right looking outwards
September 27, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Spread the word, people... 'Something is stirring; something that could become very big – a citizens’ revolt against the propaganda of power. We fight for the day on which the pen beats the wallet'. Follow us here for real news, real features and people's podcasts #Croydon #Journalism
September 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Today on #NationalDayOfRemembrance we are remembering victims of fatal domestic abuse, including those who die by suicide.
Domestic abuse significantly increases suicide risk. More Black & minoritised women take their own lives following abuse than are killed by a perpetrator. Yet their suicides remain largely invisible in data, policy & services. Structural inequalities - racism, immigration restrictions, lack of specialist ‘by and for’ support - trap women in danger. Warning signs are too often minimised by agencies. Missed chances to protect mean preventable deaths. In one case study, a woman suffered 19 years of abuse. 4 recorded overdoses. Distress dismissed as “family tensions.” Nine months after disclosing assault & suicidal thoughts, she died by suicide. ❌ Her story is a reminder: specialist services are a matter of life or death. Imkaan continues to call for action: ⚫ Recognise suicide as a VAWG issue ⚫ Track suicides linked to abuse, incl. ethnicity data ⚫ Ensure intersectional & trauma-informed post-death investigations ⚫ Invest in specialist ‘by and for’ services
September 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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As part of the 10th celebrations, we share news of a book by @rahilag.bsky.social, British Feminism: Through A FiLiA Lens, a herstory of the #Feminist voices & activism of the last decade of #FiLiA

Pre-order for collection at #FiLiA2025 or delivery 🔗 shop.filia.org.uk/products/bri...
September 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Indigenous women in Bolivia create complexly detailed textiles using traditional methods, integral to their culture #WomensArt
Woven fabric with symbolic patterns, figures, animals and places indicated, in colours of oranges, yellows, greens
September 25, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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As happened to the artworks of many historic female artists, this work by French painter Marie-Denise Villers -Young Woman Drawing, 1801 - was wrongly attributed to a male artist before being truely recognised.....
Painting of a woman sitting while in the of drawing, the subject is looking outwards, she wears a white dress and has fair hair, she sits in an interior with a window behind her, through which, in the distance a couple can be seen by a white building
September 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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'A disaster': Gatwick expansion is real threat to environment insidecroydon.com/2025/09/23/a... #Croydon #Gatwick #Environment @zackpolanski.bsky.social @abcommuters.bsky.social @christianwolmar.bsky.social
‘A disaster’: Gatwick expansion is real threat to environment
‘Signing off on a new runway at Gatwick is not just reckless, it is fundamentally incompatible with Britain’s legally binding climate obligations’. Yet Croydon’s Tory and Labour p…
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September 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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The work of Melissa Cody, 4th generation, contemporary Navajo weaver #WomensArt
Woven blanket, rug or hanging in vivid colours with many symbols and significant motifs
September 23, 2025 at 5:12 AM