Women's Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History

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Use these 79 empowering words for women to change how you talk to yourself, as well as other women, so you and others will develop and maintain a healthy mindset that allows you to feel empowered, confident, and happy. When women’s is made into possessive, it becomes an attributive noun. The word serves as an adjective to describe something else in the sentence and show possession of that item. Common Errors Made with Women’s An tAothó, means orgasm. The more familiar word for orgasm is súnás, a variation of saobhnós – distraction, infatuation, folly. Artist: Ursula Foley Women don’t need to find a voice, they have a voice, and they need to feel empowered to use it. And people need to be encouraged to listen.” ~ Meghan Markle Life is about finding yourself, embracing your strengths and weaknesses, and being true to who you are.” — Oprah WinfreySpinster’ has its origins in the job of spinning yarn, which was often (but not always) done by young women. It was the legal term for an unmarried woman from the 17th century right up until 2005 when civil partnerships were introduced. However, the word is more often used to refer negatively to older single women, which reflects historical stigma around a woman remaining unmarried. By contrast the male equivalent, ‘bachelor’, has retained mostly positive connotations. Now I ask, is it a coincidence that our words are being censored at this specific point in time? A time when we were starting to reclaim birth, reclaim female biology, talk uncensored. Now it is has become a situation in which we have to think before we speak again. Choose our words carefully. Think about others not just ourselves. Think about the impact of our words. Be kind. Respect the new cultural taboos. Censor ourselves.

When the “Women Words” series was shown at the FLAG Art Foundation in New York in 2016 (and again later that year at Gavlak Gallery in Los Angeles), Tompkins set out a table with markers and index cards and invited people to write responses to the paintings. It wasn’t until a year after she stopped adding works to the series that Tompkins actually looked at the response cards.

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Chapter 16 Penny Couchie and Muriel Miguel, "Storyweaving, Indigenous Knowledge, and Process in Material Witness" The future of life as we know it is being determined by everything we’re doing — and not doing. Now.” — Oprah Winfrey