QUEENZ ARRIVE is bringing the cream of the crop together, with female graffiti artists from all over the globe coming together to exhibit their talent. If you are in NYC, you would be crazy not to make it down to see the best of the best all in the one spot.
This event is going to be killer with a fierce line up of women that dominate the street art scene. You can peep the exhibition opening on Friday, April 10, 7-10pm, with the show running until May 4.
Since March is Women’s History Month, this seemed appropriate to tell everyone about. President Obama signed an executive order officially creating the White House Council on Women and Girls. The Council was designed to ensure that federal agencies pay extreme attention to the way their policies impact women and families.
President Obama signed the order March 11th and said that he wanted to ensure that areas such as equal pay, childcare, and family leave, are not just women’s issues but economic, social, and family issues as well. The council will work on improving women’s economic security and women’s health care, finding innovative ways to prevent violence against women, as well as developing family friendly policies.
The White House Council on Women and Girls will be headed by President Obama’s senior advisor Valerie Jarrett, who also happens to be a single mother. She will lead a group of Cabinet secretaries and other administration officials in their crusade to ensure America is a better place for women and girls.
Check the video below of President Obama explaining his decision to create the Council:
Missed out on the show? No problem: the footage is up on YouTube, with EyeASage rocking her all-womyn crew, DJ Cellskiii and Irie Eyez. Check out flicks of resident rocka, Hopie Spitshard, after the jump!
My girl, LadyLexx, posted not to long ago about how women cry about making a change but leave it up to someone else to make things right. So, I thought I’d leave you all with one more video.
She might not have ever done a sexy-dance through security laser beams, but Pearl Cornioley is one bad mutha. After her death this past February, she was recently declassified and her contribution to the French Resistance against Nazis in World War II was revealed. Not only did she hide secret messages in the hem of her skirt as she was parachuted into France, but she led troops to interrupt the Paris-Bordeaux railway at least 800 times and was considered by her superiors to be the best shot yet, male or female. No wonder Hitler and his cronies issued a 1 million franc bounty over her head! And you thought the getaway scene in Sound of Music was a nail-biter!
Guerilla Busfare gives us a heads up on a photo storyMarie Claire did a on the women warriors of the New People’s Army in the Philippines, in their February 2008 issue.
Read some thoughts on the article at GuerillaBusfare.com and if freedom fighting is your thing, pick the magazine up and read this article!
Shop at Diane von Furstenberg Boutiques in the U.S. and/or DVF.com from March 8 through 15 and DVF will donate 15% of your purchase to Vital Voices , a Non-profit organization that develops training programs to enable woman around the world to become leaders in business, government, civil society, health and education.
