Smithsonian
Silky anteater #shorts
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- Silky anteater #shorts
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- 11 months ago
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- This silky anteater hitches a ride to a safer perch. This nocturnal species is found on Panama’s Barro Colorado Island, home to the oldest active research station in the American tropics, our Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. #shorts
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- Guided Tour: Make Good the Promises - Reconstruction and Its Legacies
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- 11 months ago
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- This exhibition focuses on the period following the Civil War—through an African American lens. The United States emerged from the Civil War fundamentally changed. For the first time, slavery did not legally exist within its borders. What this meant was the question before the nation. Would four million newly freed people be truly free to determine their own lives? Would the nation’s founding promises of liberty, equality, and justice be realized for all people, regardless of race? These were the questions of Reconstruction. They remain the challenges of today.
Learn more at https://oursharedfuture.si.edu/race
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- Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past Forum
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- 11 months ago
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- View the first forum, originally aired on August 26, 2021
The first Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past forum was a virtual program about racial inequities in wellness and wealth in the U.S. From race science to COVID-19, physical and mental health, and challenges to wealth building, we explored how we arrived where we are today and how we can imagine a new way forward together. The forum is captioned in English and Spanish. We hope you enjoy the program and join us for future forums and events.
Learn more at https://oursharedfuture.si.edu/race
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- From "Our Divided Past" to "Our Shared Future" Museums & the Advancement of Equity & Understanding
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- 11 months ago
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- View the program, originally aired on October 27, 2021.
The launch of the Smithsonian’s Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past initiative and the creation of two new museums by Congress; the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum and the National Museum of the American Latino, present unique moments to explore how museums can help foster courageous new will and promote opportunities for all.
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- This Lesbian Group Started In Secret and Changed History
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- 1 year ago
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- The Daughters of Bilitis was a lesbian social club that transformed into a rights organization. They produced the first national lesbian publication, participated in public protests, and challenged the field of psychology’s misconceptions of homosexuality.
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- How Activist Grace Thorpe Protected Native Lands
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- 1 year ago
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- Grace Thorpe organized her community when she learned that several Native American tribes, including her Sac and Fox Nation, were considering allowing the government to store toxic nuclear waste materials on their lands.
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- El grupo de lesbianas que comenzó en secreto y cambió la historia
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- 1 year ago
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- Las Hijas de Bilitis era un club social para lesbianas que se convirtió en una organización de derechos. Publicaron la primera publicación nacional sobre el lesbianismo, participaron en demostraciones públicas y desafiaron los conceptos erróneos de la psicología sobre la homosexualidad.
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- Ginny Montes ayuda a guiar a la próxima generación de mujeres activistas
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- 1 year ago
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- Como secretaria de la Organización Nacional de Mujeres (NOW), Ginny Montes alentó a las mujeres a postularse para cargos políticos en todo el país a través de entrenamientos de liderazgo.
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- La activista Grace Thorpe protege las tierras indígenas
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- 1 year ago
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- Grace Thorpe organizó a su comunidad cuando se enteró que varias tribus nativas norteamericanas, incluyendo su tribu, la nación Sac y Fox, estaban considerando permitir que el gobierno almacenara desechos nucleares tóxicos en sus tierras.
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- How People with Disabilities Won the Right to Choose Their Own Homes
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- 1 year ago
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- Lois Curtis and Elaine Wilson, two women with disabilities, won a case against the state of Georgia for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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- Las personas con discapacidad ganan el derecho a elegir su propio hogar
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- 1 year ago
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- Lois Curtis y Elaine Wilson, dos mujeres con discapacidades, ganaron un caso contra el estado de Georgia por violar la ley federal para las personas con discapacidad.
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- Patterns and Lines: The Colorful World of Alma Thomas
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- A family program for young learners about the artist Alma Thomas.
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- Our Shared Future: Reckoning With Our Racial Past - National Conversation on Race
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- 1 year ago
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- “Our Shared Future: Reckoning With Our Racial Past,” the Smithsonian’s race initiative, is hosting a National Conversation on Race Thursday, Dec. 1, at the National Museum of African American History and Culture from 7-8:30 p.m.
This inaugural National Conversation on Race will bring together a group of panelists from diverse backgrounds to discuss how modern society deals with racism within the broader historical context of America’s complicated history and legacy of race. The conversation will delve into the impact that events of the past few years—ranging from the national protests in response to the murder of George Floyd to the COVID-19 pandemic—have had on society, and how these events will shape the ongoing legacy of race in the U.S.
NBC News correspondent Morgan Radford will moderate the discussion. It will focus on the panelists’ connections to these issues through their work and showcase their active participation in creating a more eq...
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- How does the Smithsonian digitize millions of plant specimens? #shorts
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- 2 years ago
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- With a conveyor belt! In our largest digitization project, we used this system to digitize more than 3.8 million herbarium sheets from the National Museum of Natural History's collection, now available to all through Smithsonian Open Access.
Each specimen within the U.S. National Herbarium documents a species from a specific time and place. This data powers agricultural research, biodiversity studies, climate science studies, field conservation research, and more.
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- Yellow submarine does deep-sea research #shorts
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- 2 years ago
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- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute scientists recently took 11 dives in a yellow vessel to an unexplored undersea mountain range off the coast of Panama. Some of what they saw: a possible new coral species, very rare prickly sharks, and 60 hammerheads.
#sharks
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- Water Unites Us
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- OSTP and Smithsonian Institution Host Joint Event:
“Water Unites Us: A Celebration of Women & Girls of Color Who Lead In Science & Technology”
Friday, February 11, 2022 at 10:00 AM ET –2:00 PM ET
The event will be livestreamed at https://s.si.edu/WaterUnitesUs
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Deputy Director for Science and Society Dr. Alondra Nelson and Smithsonian Institution Under Secretary for Education Dr. Monique Chism will lead a virtual celebration of the role of Black, Indigenous, and other women and girls of color in science, technology, mathematics, and engineering. The event will also shine a light on organizations that have demonstrated leadership in providing opportunities for girls of color to enter and remain in the science and technology ecosystem. This event is designed to support, encourage, and inspire the curiosity and scientific interests of girls and women of color and provide resources and informatio...
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- How Ida B. Wells Got Women Voting (Narrated)
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Under the leadership of Ida B. Wells, the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago registered enough women voters to make change in Chicago's 2nd Ward.
Learn more women’s history with the Smithsonian: https://womenshistory.si.edu
Drawing on the Smithsonian’s unique and vast resources, Because of Her Story creates, disseminates, and amplifies the historical record of the accomplishments of American women.
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- Black Women's Clubs Fought for Voting Rights (Narrated)
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- 2 years ago
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- In the 1890s, African American women led by Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin created the Women’s Era Club in Boston. They united and organized with other clubs across the U.S. to create the National Association of Colored Women. Together, they fought for voting rights and education across the country.
Learn more women’s history with the Smithsonian: https://womenshistory.si.edu
Drawing on the Smithsonian’s unique and vast resources, Because of Her Story creates, disseminates, and amplifies the historical record of the accomplishments of American women.
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- Was Childcare One Secret to Winning Suffrage? (Narrated)
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- In New York City’s San Juan Hill neighborhood, Lyda Newman and other working mothers found a clever way to balance childcare and political organizing to open the Negro Suffrage Headquarters.
Learn more women’s history with the Smithsonian: https://womenshistory.si.edu
Drawing on the Smithsonian’s unique and vast resources, Because of Her Story creates, disseminates, and amplifies the historical record of the accomplishments of American women.
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- Mabel Ping-Hua Lee Fought for Voting Rights on Horseback (Narrated)
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- New York's 1912 Suffrage March demonstrated the large number of women willing to speak out for voting rights. At the head of the parade, a young Chinese woman, Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, rode horseback on the front lines and made a bold statement.
Learn more women’s history with the Smithsonian: https://womenshistory.si.edu
Drawing on the Smithsonian’s unique and vast resources, Because of Her Story creates, disseminates, and amplifies the historical record of the accomplishments of American women.
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- Winning Latino Support for Women's Voting Rights (Narrated)
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Californian women organizing for the right to vote were only given eight months to prepare before the election. One of those women, Maria de Guadalupe Evangelina Lopez de Lowther, took action to include Latina women.
Learn more women’s history with the Smithsonian: https://womenshistory.si.edu
Drawing on the Smithsonian’s unique and vast resources, Because of Her Story creates, disseminates, and amplifies the historical record of the accomplishments of American women.
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- In 1868 Portia K. Gage Voted in Protest (Narrated)
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Hundreds of New Jersey women, led by Portia K. Gage, constructed a homemade ballot box and cast unofficial votes as a form of resistance in the late 1800s.
Learn more women’s history with the Smithsonian: https://womenshistory.si.edu
Drawing on the Smithsonian’s unique and vast resources, Because of Her Story creates, disseminates, and amplifies the historical record of the accomplishments of American women.
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- Native Hawaiian Women Who Rallied for Suffrage (Narrated)
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- When Hawai’i became an American territory, women were stripped of their right to vote. Suffragist Wilhelmina Kekelaokalaninui Widemann Dowsett fought back, organizing with other women to regain their political power.
Learn more women’s history with the Smithsonian: https://womenshistory.si.edu
Drawing on the Smithsonian’s unique and vast resources, Because of Her Story creates, disseminates, and amplifies the historical record of the accomplishments of American women.
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- How Suffragist Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin Spoke Up (Narrated)
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Even after the passage of the 19th Amendment that said women could not be denied the vote because of their sex, the right to vote was not guaranteed. Since many American Indian women were not considered citizens, they were unjustly denied the ballot. Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin of North Dakota's Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa fought to change these rules, law degree in hand.
Explore more women’s history with the Smithsonian: https://womenshistory.si.edu
Drawing on the Smithsonian’s unique and vast resources, Because of Her Story creates, disseminates, and amplifies the historical record of the accomplishments of American women.
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- How the Chinatown Health Fair Grew (Narrated)
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- 2 years ago
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- In New York City's Chinatown, college student Regina Lee and other volunteers organized a neighborhood health fair to improve health literacy in their community.
Learn more women’s history with the Smithsonian: https://womenshistory.si.edu/
Drawing on the Smithsonian’s unique and vast resources, Because of Her Story creates, disseminates, and amplifies the historical record of the accomplishments of American women.
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- Emma Tennayuca Led the Pecan Shellers Strike (Narrated)
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- When owners of a San Antonio, Texas, pecan-shelling plant reduced low wages even more, 21-year-old Emma Tenayuca led the Mexican and Mexican American workers in walking out.
Learn more women’s history with the Smithsonian: https://womenshistory.si.edu
Drawing on the Smithsonian’s unique and vast resources, Because of Her Story creates, disseminates, and amplifies the historical record of the accomplishments of American women.
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- Why Delta Sigma Theta Sent Books South (Narrated)
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- The sisters of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. fundraised to buy and distribute books throughout the segregated South to provide students with critical educational tools.
Learn more women’s history with the Smithsonian: https://womenshistory.si.edu
Drawing on the Smithsonian’s unique and vast resources, Because of Her Story creates, disseminates, and amplifies the historical record of the accomplishments of American women.
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- Why Mothers Stopped Traffic in Las Vegas (Narrated)
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Mothers and caregivers, led by activist Ruby Duncan, blocked a quarter-mile section of the Las Vegas Strip to fight against unjust cuts to welfare benefits.
Learn more women’s history with the Smithsonian: https://womenshistory.si.edu
Drawing on the Smithsonian’s unique and vast resources, Because of Her Story creates, disseminates, and amplifies the historical record of the accomplishments of American women.
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- Ana Mendieta: On the Body and Landscape (Interview Only)
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Ana Mendieta is widely regarded as among the most original and talented artists of the postwar era. She produced a stunning body of work that drew together the most important innovations of her moment, including land art, film, performance, intersectional feminism, and presciently foregrounding issues of identity, translocations, and ecology. Time-based media art curators at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, National Portrait Gallery, and Smithsonian American Art Museum will then discuss her engagement with natural and social environments with Raquel Cecilia, Mendieta’s niece, Estate director and director of a documentary on the artist’s life, Rebel by Nature: The Life & Art of Ana Mendieta.
Viewfinder: Women’s Film and Video from the Smithsonian is a monthly virtual screening and conversation series sponsored by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative, Because of Her Story. The first sequence of selected works reflect on interiority—a timel...
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- Smithsonian Live Stream
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- The Women in The Room: Money, Power, and Policy
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- 2 years ago
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- From the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative and the Bloomberg New Voices program, we present The Women in the Room, a virtual celebration of women leaders in business.
The participating speakers are at the forefront of the effort to achieve gender equality and are inspiring the next generation of female leaders. Hear from our panelists, featuring Gina Adams, Senior Vice President of Government and Regulatory Affairs, FedEx Corporation; Sheila C. Johnson, Founder & CEO of Salamander Hotels and Resorts, and Co-Founder of BET; and Martine Rothblatt, Chair, CEO and Founder of United Therapeutics.
In addition, remarks are given by Smithsonian Regent and Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NY), Meroë Park, Deputy Secretary of the Smithsonian, and Lisa Sasaki, Interim Director of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum. The program includes a special Smithsonian-curated presentation on the history of female political leaders in Washington, DC.
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- Howardena Pindell: On the Performance of Autobiography (Interview Only)
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- 2 years ago
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- Over the course of nearly six decades, groundbreaking multidisciplinary artist Howardena Pindell has radically expanded the medium of painting and transformed the language of abstraction. The first of only three videos in the artist’s body of work, Pindell’s "Free, White and 21" (12:15 min, 1980) marks a turn toward more overt autobiographical content in her practice. Watch the artist and National Portrait Gallery curator Charlotte Ickes in conversation with Naomi Beckwith, Deputy Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Valerie Cassel Oliver, Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Beckwith and Cassel Oliver co-organized the 2018 exhibition Howardena Pindell: What Remains to Be Seen, the first major survey of Pindell’s work.
Viewfinder: Women’s Film and Video from the Smithsonian is a monthly virtual screening and conversation series sponsored...
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- Laurel Nakadate: On Tragedy and the Everyday (Interview Only)
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Laurel Nakadate is an American artist who works in video and photography to address questions of gender, sexuality, power, and vulnerability. Greater New York (5:10 min., 2005), which Nakadate filmed on and shortly after September 11, 2001, features the artist engaged in a variety of activities throughout New York City: dancing with a Walkman, speaking to a dead bird, conversing with an older man, and—in a recurring, haunting image—staring into a column of smoke left by the collapsed Twin Towers. Dressed in a Girl Scout uniform and raising a hand in salute, she alludes to Dorothea Lange’s photograph of Japanese American schoolchildren in the moments before they were incarcerated in internment camps during World War II. Nakadate’s work is in the collections of major institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Guggenheim Museum. Hirshhorn Associate Curator Marina Isgro and Lily Siegel, executive director of Hamiltonian Artists and ...
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- Leslie Thornton: On Surviving (Interview Only)
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Join the Smithsonian American Art Museum for an engaging virtual lecture with award-winning filmmaker Leslie Thornton. Learn how Thornton, with her decades-long episodic film epic Peggy and Fred in Hell (1983–2015), secured a place of reverence in cinema history. The series’ most well-known video is "Peggy and Fred in Kansas" (11 mins, 1987). In this short piece, viewers are introduced to the protagonists as young children, responding to a post-apocalyptic Earth that has forced them into hiding. They live among the debris of their former society and rely on tune-in radio signals for glimpses into another world.
Thornton and Saisha Grayson, time based media curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, reflect on how this avant-garde film classic resonates with renewed urgency for audiences in 2021, after a year of contemplating a threatening environment “out there” via media consumption while at home. They will be joined by Natalie Bell, curator at the MIT List V...
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- Las mamás paran el tráfico en Las Vegas
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Un grupo de madres y cuidadoras, lideradas por la activista Ruby Duncan, bloquearon un cuarto de milla por la calle principal de Las Vegas para luchar contra la eliminación injusta de las prestaciones sociales.
Aprende más sobre la historia de las mujeres con el Smithsonian: https://womenshistory.si.edu/
Aprovechando los extensos recursos únicos del Smithsonian, Because of Her Story crea, difunde, y amplifica el registro histórico de los logros de las mujeres estadounidenses.
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- Delta Signa Theta envía libros al Sur
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- 3 years ago
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- Las mujeres de la hermandad Delta Sigma Theta Inc. recaudaron fondos para comprar y distribuir libros a través del Sur segregado para proporcionarle a los estudiantes estas herramientas esenciales para la educación.
Aprende más sobre la historia de las mujeres con el Smithsonian: https://womenshistory.si.edu/
Aprovechando los extensos recursos únicos del Smithsonian, Because of Her Story crea, difunde, y amplifica el registro histórico de los logros de las mujeres estadounidenses.
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- Emma Tenayuca lidera la huelga de los peladores de nueces
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Cuando los propietarios de una planta para pelar nueces en San Antonio, Texas recortaron los bajos salarios aun más, Emma Tenayuca, una joven de 21 años, lideró a las trabajadoras mexicanas y mexicano-americanas para que abandonaran sus puestos de trabajo.
Aprende más sobre la historia de las mujeres con el Smithsonian: https://womenshistory.si.edu/
Aprovechando los extensos recursos únicos del Smithsonian, Because of Her Story crea, difunde, y amplifica el registro histórico de los logros de las mujeres estadounidenses.
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- Una feria de salud llega a Chinatown
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- 3 years ago
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- En el barrio Chinatown en la ciudad de Nueva York, la estudiante universitaria Regina Lee y otros voluntarios organizaron una feria de la salud para mejorar los conocimientos sobre la salud en su comunidad.
Aprende más sobre la historia de las mujeres con el Smithsonian: https://womenshistory.si.edu/
Aprovechando los extensos recursos únicos del Smithsonian, Because of Her Story crea, difunde, y amplifica el registro histórico de los logros de las mujeres estadounidenses.
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- La sufragista Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin alza la voz
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Aun después de la ratificación de la 19ª Enmienda, la cual decía que el voto no podría ser negado a las mujeres por cuenta del sexo, el derecho al voto no era garantizado. Como no se consideraban ciudadanas a muchas mujeres indígenas estadounidenses, fueron injustamente negadas el voto. Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin de la Banda Turtle Mountain de Chippewa en Dakota del Norte luchó para cambiar estas reglas, con su titulo de abogada en mano.
Aprende más sobre la historia de las mujeres con el Smithsonian: https://womenshistory.si.edu/
Aprovechando los extensos recursos únicos del Smithsonian, Because of Her Story crea, difunde, y amplifica el registro histórico de los logros de las mujeres estadounidenses.
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- Las mujeres nativas hawaianas se unen para el sufragio
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Cuando Hawai se convirtió en un territorio estadounidense, las mujeres perdieron su derecho al voto. La sufragista Wilhelmina Kekelaokalaninui Widemann Dowsett, organizó a las otras mujeres y luchó para recuperar su poder político.
Aprende más sobre la historia de las mujeres con el Smithsonian: https://womenshistory.si.edu/
Aprovechando los extensos recursos únicos del Smithsonian, Because of Her Story crea, difunde, y amplifica el registro histórico de los logros de las mujeres estadounidenses.
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- En 1868 Portia K. Gage votó en protesta
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- 3 years ago
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- Cientos de mujeres de Nueva Jersey, lideradas por Portia K. Gage, instalaron su propia urna electoral y emitieron votos no oficiales en una forma de resistencia, a fines del siglo XIX.
Aprende más sobre la historia de las mujeres con el Smithsonian: https://womenshistory.si.edu/
Aprovechando los extensos recursos únicos del Smithsonian, Because of Her Story crea, difunde, y amplifica el registro histórico de los logros de las mujeres estadounidenses.
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- Ganando el apoyo latino para el voto femenino
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- 3 years ago
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- En California, un grupo de mujeres que estaban luchando por el derecho al voto tuvieron solo ocho meses para prepararse antes de una elección. Una de esas mujeres, María de Guadalupe Evangelina López de Lowther, tomó medidas para incluir a las mujeres latinas.
Aprende más sobre la historia de las mujeres con el Smithsonian: https://womenshistory.si.edu/
Aprovechando los extensos recursos únicos del Smithsonian, Because of Her Story crea, difunde, y amplifica el registro histórico de los logros de las mujeres estadounidenses.
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- Mabel Ping-Hua Lee lucha por el sufragio a caballo
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- La marcha por el voto de 1912 en Nueva York demostró el gran número de mujeres dispuestas a hablar a favor al derecho al voto. Una joven china, Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, hizo una declaración audaz al liderar la demostración, montada a caballo.
Aprende más sobre la historia de las mujeres con el Smithsonian: https://womenshistory.si.edu/
Aprovechando los extensos recursos únicos del Smithsonian, Because of Her Story crea, difunde, y amplifica el registro histórico de los logros de las mujeres estadounidenses.
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- El cuidado infantil fue una arma secreta para ganar el sufragio
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- En el vecindario de San Juan Hill en la ciudad de Nueva York, Lyda Newman y otras mujeres trabajadoras se inventaron una manera innovadora de balancear el cuidado de los niños y la organización política para abrir la sede para el sufragio de los negros.
Aprende más sobre la historia de las mujeres con el Smithsonian: https://womenshistory.si.edu/
Aprovechando los extensos recursos únicos del Smithsonian, Because of Her Story crea, difunde, y amplifica el registro histórico de los logros de las mujeres estadounidenses.
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- Los clubes de mujeres Afroamericanas luchan por el derecho al voto
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- 3 years ago
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- En la década de 1890, las mujeres afroamericanas, lideradas por Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, crearon el Club de la Era de la Mujer en Boston. Se unieron con otros clubes a través de EE.UU. para crear la Asociación Nacional de Mujeres de Color. Juntas lucharon por el derecho al voto y la educación en todo el país.
Aprende más sobre la historia de las mujeres con el Smithsonian: https://womenshistory.si.edu/
Aprovechando los extensos recursos únicos del Smithsonian, Because of Her Story crea, difunde, y amplifica el registro histórico de los logros de las mujeres estadounidenses.
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- Ida B. Wells logra que las mujeres voten
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Bajo el liderazgo de Ida B. Wells, el Alpha Suffrage Club en Chicago registró a suficientes mujeres votantes para lograr el cambio en el Segundo Barrio de Chicago.
Aprende más sobre la historia de las mujeres con el Smithsonian: https://womenshistory.si.edu/
Aprovechando los extensos recursos únicos del Smithsonian, Because of Her Story crea, difunde, y amplifica el registro histórico de los logros de las mujeres estadounidenses.
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- Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg: On Media and Extinction (Interview Only)
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- 3 years ago
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- Dr. Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg is an artist and designer based in London whose work explores the relationship between nature and technology. Her multidisciplinary practice has been recognized by the World Technology Award and the London Design Medal for Emerging Talent. Commissioned by Cooper Hewitt and Cube Design Museum, Ginsberg’s "The Substitute" (2019) presents a striking digital iteration of the northern white rhino, a species perilously close to extinction. Audiences will be able to view documentation of the installation, followed by a conversation with Ginsberg, Cooper Hewitt curator Andrea Lipps, and conservationist Dr. Kent Redford about the work’s use of digital media, including artificial intelligence, to address biodiversity loss and bioengineering ethics.
Viewfinder: Women’s Film and Video from the Smithsonian is a monthly virtual screening and conversation series sponsored by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative, Because of Her Story. Th...
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- Chitra Ganesh: On Dreaming and Refusal (Interview Only)
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- 3 years ago
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- Join the Smithsonian American Art Museum for a virtual film screening featuring the work of artistic duo Girl. Made up of the Brooklyn-based artists Chitra Ganesh and Simone Leigh, Girl created the collaborative video "My Dreams, My Works Must Wait Till After Hell" (7:14 mins., 2011). Set to a haunting score of Japanese flutes and drums, viewers observe the unclothed back of a Black woman. Turned away, the woman’s body represents both vulnerability and a declaration of strength and refusal to be available to desiring or oppressive eyes. After this mesmerizing screening, Ganesh is joined by Saisha Grayson time-based media curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, to discuss how this work asserts and protects the right to the complex, concealed inner lives for women of color and constitutes a queer, feminist response to centuries of the female nude depicted in Western art history.
Viewfinder: Women’s Film and Video from the Smithsonian is a monthly virtual screenin...
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- Zora Lathan and Iman Uqdah Hameen: On Black Interiority
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- 3 years ago
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- Drawing on the extensive holdings of our National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts, this program will be dedicated to the interiority of Black life. The screening will pair the experimental works of Zora Lathan, who uses her family as her muse, and the short film Unspoken Conversation (1987) by Iman Uqdah Hameen, which explores a Black woman’s journey as a wife and mother. The filmmakers will join National Museum of African American History and Culture’s curator Rhea Combs and media conservator Ina Archer for a post-screening conversation.
Viewfinder: Women’s Film and Video from the Smithsonian is a monthly virtual screening and conversation series sponsored by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative, Because of Her Story. The first sequence of selected works reflect on interiority—a timely topic during this global pandemic. https://womenshistory.si.edu/events/viewfin...
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- Margaret Salmon: On Motherhood and the Everyday (Interview Only)
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- "Ninna Nanna" (2006), by filmmaker Margaret Salmon, explores the relationships between three young Italian mothers and their infants. In striking images captured on 16 mm film, Salmon observes the subtle dynamics and emotional nuances of the women’s interactions with their young children. The filmmaker will join Rosalind Galt, Professor of Film Studies at King's College London, and Marina Isgro, associate curator of media and performance art and Robert and Arlene Kogod Secretarial Scholar, in a conversation about this work in our Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden’s collection.
Viewfinder: Women’s Film and Video from the Smithsonian is a monthly virtual screening and conversation series sponsored by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative, Because of Her Story. The first sequence of selected works reflect on interiority—a timely topic during this global pandemic. https://womenshistory.si.edu/events/viewfinder