Post pics of really cool women...

[HEyHEY]

Patti Smith, now there's a woman that could fucking rock

[fleabert]

1. but did she rock while f...

nevermind, of course she did/does... :-)

is she still alive? for some reason I have it in my head that she died.

[progmom]

3. she is still alive

her husband died about 10 years ago.


i ran into her in the street in ann arbor once. she was pacing and muttering to herself. maybe i just caught her on a bad day.

[fleabert]

7. gracias...don't know where that brain bug came from...

maybe she was composing a song out loud? Let's hope.

[stlsaxman]

43. sure that was her?

I think she still lives in NYC...

and she was a guest performer here in st louis for the Council on Media Reform.
Still releasing albums, very good ones...

don't think she's a street-person...

[progmom]

76. she was here doing a fundraiser show

it was definitely her. i didn't mean to imply that she as a street person, by any means. just that she might be a wee bit....different.

[MrSandman]

129. "Different"

So many possib;e connotations.

A lovely word.

[ghostsofgiants]

2. Ani Difranco

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

47. Oh my god yes

You listen to Ani Difranco? :wow:

[ghostsofgiants]

49. Haha, I do indeed listen to Ani

Mmmmmm, Ani...*drool*

Amazing musician, really smart and gorgeous as hell.

[windlight]

102. Oh YEA!!!

Ani Rocks..:)...

[DBoon]

4. Since you already took Patti Smith

Here are the women of Sleater Kinney

[swag]

21. I love that photo, because it's impossible to hail a cab in Portland.

plus I love walking up west Broadway, where the photo was taken. There's a luthier up the street near the symphony concert hall where you can walk in and watch the guy sanding cellos and shit like that.

Anyway, if you want a cab in Portland, go stand in front of the Benson or the Hilton. Otherwise, you are more or less fucked. And the impossibility of hailing a cab is the only thing holding this backwater burg back from being a world-class city. You should be walking or riding your bike anyway.

I did meet Corinne at an art opening once and yes, she seemed very cool, in her black sleeveless shift and heels.

[Arugula Latte]

139. Hey, I live here

so by definition PDX is world class! :rofl:

[DBoon]

5. And Exene

[Lannes]

6. PJ Harvey

[johnnie]

8. No problem

[HEyHEY]

9. Memoir? Of what?

"I married a Bush, spewed out some shithead kids.. and did first lady stuff...the end."

[tinfoilinfor2005]

10. The criteria was "cool", not "ghoul" n/t

[tigereye]

11. Barbara Boxer

[tigereye]

12. Pauline Oliveros

experimental musician suggeted by my sweetie...

[Misunderestimator]

74. How dare you sully this thread with that garbage?

:mad: :spank:

[kmla]

103. Hey. That was cool women....

Not the guy on the box of Quaker Oats.

[kanrok]

127. Where'd she get the helmet?

[jmm]

13. A couple of really cool women

My little sister and me B-)

[Robeson]

28. Cute picture, and I can definitely see the family resemblance....

...she looks like a younger you!

[jmm]

134. I keep on telling her that one year

on Halloween I'm gonna take her out as my mini-me :D.

[Redstone]

69. Has anyone mentioned what a fine-looking woman you are?

Because if they haven't, they should.

Redstone

[jmm]

133. You're making me blush

and with my complexion that's not an easy task :blush:.

[warrior1]

14. Jane Goodall

Damn that picture was big.

[stlsaxman]

44. I kissed Jane Goodalls hand and told her how big a crush i had on her!

just last year- it was soooo cool!

[Schema Thing]

71. I agree with your choice, and here's a couple of me-showing-off pics

[Xipe Totec]

15. Frida, who else would I possibly pick?

http://members.aol.com/fridanet/kahlo.htm

[bicentennial_baby]

16. Anna and Asia

Anna Karina...



Asia Argento...

[swag]

17. Louise Bourgeois

from
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/bourgeois/


Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911. She studied art at various schools there, including the Ecole du Louvre, Académie des Beaux-Arts, Académie Julian, and Atelier Fernand Léger. In 1938, she emigrated to the United States and continued her studies at the Art Students League in New York. Though her beginnings were as an engraver and painter, by the 1940s she had turned her attention to sculptural work, for which she is now recognized as a twentieth-century leader. Greatly influenced by the influx of European Surrealist artists who immigrated to the United States after World War II, Bourgeois’s early sculpture was composed of groupings of abstract and organic shapes, often carved from wood. By the 1960s she began to execute her work in rubber, bronze, and stone, and the pieces themselves became larger, more referential to what has become the dominant theme of her work—her childhood. She has famously stated“My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.” Deeply symbolic, her work uses her relationship with her parents and the role sexuality played in her early family life as a vocabulary in which to understand and remake that history. The anthropomorphic shapes her pieces take—the female and male bodies are continually referenced and remade—are charged with sexuality and innocence and the interplay between the two. Bourgeois’s work is in the collections of most major museums around the world. She lives in New York.

[tigereye]

51. great!

we wanted to post a pic of her, but were blanking on her name! What a cool woman!

wonder if she was the template for the character Maude in Harold and Maude....????


:hi: :thumbsup:

[swag]

58. She's amazing, and completely unbound by artistic media convention.

I didn't know a thing about her until I wandered into a huge show of hers in Madrid about 8 years ago. It was love at first sight.

[tigereye]

63. there was an interesting film about her

on PBS a few years back. Fascinating! I love when women, esp. older women, defy convention!

[LibraLiz1973]

18. Tori Amos

[rppper]

70. ahhhh...i've had a decades long crush on tori amos.....

i have seen her twice live...always a powerfull show......

but annie lennox will always be my favorite.....mmmm...that voice



Love is a stranger
In an open car
To tempt you in
And drive you far away

And I want you
And I want you
And I want you so
It’s an obsession

Love is a danger
Of a different kind
To take you away
And leave you far behind
And love love love
Is a dangerous drug
You have to receive it
And you still can’t
Get enough of the stuff

It’s savage and it’s cruel
And it shines like destruction
Comes in like the flood
And it seems like religion
It’s noble and it’s brutal
It distorts and deranges
And it wrenches you up
And you’re left like a zombie

And I want you
And I want you
And I want you so
It’s an obsession

It’s guilt edged
Glamorous and sleek by design
You know it’s jealous by nature
False and unkind
It’s hard and restrained
And it’s totally cool
It touches and it teases
As you stumble in the debris

[CanuckAmok]

19. You call yourselves Progressives?! Where's...

...Emma Goldman?





...Sean yseult?




...Mira Sorvino?

[tigereye]

53. my uncle's wife

is related to Mira somehow.

also like the pic of ms. Yseult... what band is that?

[CanuckAmok]

60. Yseult was in White Zombie n/t

[tigereye]

62. oh right

I remember her. What a great band!

[katinmn]

20. I saw Patti in May, and she still rocks

No theatrics.

Just Patti and her guitar.

But she has that rare gift for reaching right into your heart.

[MrSlayer]

22. Wendy O. Williams.

The coolest woman ever.

[indy_azcat]

23. I think I abused the DU search function

:hide:

[ghostsofgiants]

35. Who is that?

[indy_azcat]

36. hmmmm... dunno... do a search for Boston Pics i the archives

I wasn't there - but this one caused quote a stir;)

We'll see what come back from Matcom's BBQ :)

Blondie and Rev Acts...

[ghostsofgiants]

38. Blondie and RevActs, eh?

Note to self: Go to Boston more often.

[RevolutionaryActs]

79. Pervert.

:D

[ghostsofgiants]

90. Hahaha

:blush:

[BlondieK143]

85. We tried to tell you!

:D

[ghostsofgiants]

91. Hmmm...

Seems like something I would have remembered.

[BlondieK143]

75. Hey now!

No one was supposed to see that! :D

[indy_azcat]

97. note to self - no more use of Boston pics.. unless I use them in an avatar

:think:

[BlondieK143]

99. Just kidding!

:D

[RevolutionaryActs]

78. I came this close to spitting juice all over my computer screen.

Isn't it hilarious how we're both about to start laughing? :D

[indy_azcat]

98. all i did was search for cool pics

the DU search bot never lies.

:hi: to my fave dupe-er

[chaska]

24. Mistress of the dark

Elvira

[maveric]

92. Best cleavage, EVER!

Without a doubt!

[Deep13]

110. What's the face on your T-shirt staring at?

[sasquatch]

25. Joan of Arc

The ORIGINAL ass kickin' women IMHO.

[elshiva]

83. Right on! Hildegarde of Bingen:

[FizzFuzz]

135. I love Hildegarde of Bingen!

Yay, Elshiva!

I'm nuts for Patti Smith too...she's so great!

[Deep13]

106. holy ass-kicker

What an astonishing person she was. She arose to fame near the end of the 100 Years War. At the time, the Capetion dynasty had been disposed and a puppet of England was on the France throne. English and Brugundian troops occuppied most of France. The significance of this to Jean and Jeanne Six-pack is that the French people were subject to extortion, rape and privations of all kinds. In 1427, Jeanne Darc was a milk maid on her father's peasant farm in Domremey, still under French control. She was illiterate, a devout Christian and may have never even seen a soldier in her life. At the time she was 14 or 15 and apparently uninterested in marriage. (She had successfully defended a lawsuit by a suitor who alleged that she had promised to marry him.) She was five feet tall, a little short by medieval standards. Two years later, she was Commander-in-Chief of the French Army and stood alone by Charles de Valois as he was coronated at Rhiems.

From that point of time, her life was well documented. According to her, Sts. Margaret and Catherine appeared to her and urged her to go to the local landlord at Valcoulors for a letter of introduction to the exhiled king. She did so and was rebuffed at first. Eventually, the landlord agreed and sent her with a guard to the crown prince (Dauphine). There she picked him out of a crowd, supposedly with the help of St. Michael. In confidence, she revealed something to him that convinced him that handing her the French army, or what was left of it, was the right thing to do. Just what that tidbit of information was is not known.

After a tedious examination by a bunch of priests, she was sent to Orlean at the head of the French army to raise the English seige. This was in April of 1429. Orlean was the key to the country, the last French stronghold. The seige had gone on for so long that the English had built their own mini-castles around the city. For months, French general officers manuvered cautiously fighting a delaying action with their limited resources. Jeanne's arrival changed that. After a message urging the English surrender had been ignored, Jeanne attacked immediately. During the first few hours of assaulted, Jeanne was shot by an arrow in the shoulder. After a hasty patch-up, she returned to the fight and rally the troops for a successful assault. In 24 hours, on May 8, Jeanne had broken the seemingly endless seige and opened the Loire Valley to the French. I should point out that she was no figurehead. Writings from the time confirm that she was an active, aggressive and authoritarian commander.

After routing the fleeing English Army, she alone was permitted to stand by the king as he was crowned Charles VII. As patronage, Charles exempted her town from royal taxes, an exmption that was maintained until the revolution in 1798. Also, she was made a peer with two unusual provisions: title that may descend through the female line and the use of the fleur-de-lies on her coat of arms. Mark Twain scoffed at this in his fictionalized account of her life saying that no title of nobility could be as noble as her actual name.

At this time the politicians who profited by her military genius and courage betrayed Jeanne to make peace with England and Burgundy. She was routed and wounded outside Paris and the king claimed that she had assaulted the English-occupied city without royal authority. When she was captured in 1430, Charles did nothing. Having no legal basis to condemn her, the Enlish and church collaberators tried her for heresy claiming that her direct communications with saints contravened the rules of the church. They also obsessed over her wearing of male-type attire (for which the church had explicitely authorized when she set out for Orleans). Somehow, despite being weak from captivity, illiterate and uncounseled, Jeanne gave a lucid defense. The trial dragged on for months as a result. Finally, after wearing on her constantly and after a possible rape by prison guards, she capitulated and signed a confession (which she could not read). She came to her senses and repudiated it. As a lapsed heretic, her enemy had an excuse to burn her alive in the market square in Rouen. She was 18 or 19 years old. Ten years later, Jeannes reversal of the 100 years war was complete and French sovereignty was assured. England would not again invade France until the revolution where they were invited by the deposed Bourbon dynasty.

The crowd rioted claiming they had murdered a saint. Forty years later a second trial was held where the ecclesiastical court declared the judgment illegal. In 1920, Jeanne was canonized and replaced Archangel Michael as "patron" saint of France and also of soldiers and of the French army.

[Maestro]

26. Here are two progressives if just not out right liberals

[chaska]

27. I resisted the urge to post one of her younger pics.

She's a beautiful woman no matter how you measure.

[Left Is Write]

42. Her beauty is timeless.

Thanks for showing one of the "older" pictures.

[Rabrrrrrr]

29. Chandralekha, Meredith Monk, Laurie Anderson

Chandralekha:



Meredith:



Meredith with Ann Hamilton, aldo a cool woman:



And Laurie:

[swag]

30. I've wondered occasionally if DU's "mmonk" wasn't Meredith Monk.

Great choices.

on edit: "mmonk" has a profile which, if accurate, says the answer is "no."

[Rabrrrrrr]

31. It would be cool, though!

I'd love to meet Meredith some day. I know one of her organists, but never got to meet her.

Such a genius she is.

I'd love to have the chance to take a summer or something and spend it learning from her.

[swag]

32. It's probably a pedestrian choice, relatively speaking, on my part,

but I love "Candy, Bullets, and Moon."

Cheers, Rabrrrrrr.

[u4ic]

33. Rosa Parks and Vandana Shiva

[cprise]

45. Did you see Shiva interviewed in "The Corporation"?

She was great. I've also listened to some of her discussions and debates.

Two of my own are Arundhati Roy and Katherine Hepburn:

[chaska]

34. Oh yes....

[chaska]

37. This is Ellie Erickson.

She's brilliant. She builds musical instruments and says really cool stuff. She is the mother of my sig line.

[Blue Belle]

55. Right On...

I love Sade..

[swag]

39. Shirley Chisholm

[elshiva]

80. YES! Chisholm, Tammy Baldwin, Barbara Jordan

[HysteryDiagnosis]

40. My avatar.....

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0823-05.htm

Published on Monday, August 23, 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle
Arundhati Roy:
Life Comes Between a Firebrand and Her Fiction
by Jonathan Curiel

The applause started at 7:40 p.m., when she was first introduced to the overflow crowd at the San Francisco Hilton. By the time Arundhati Roy finished an hour later -- by the time this novelist-activist-public intellectual completed her speech titled "Public Power in the Age of Empire" - - the audience had given her two standing ovations, 20 more rounds of applause and countless variations of more personal salutations like, "That's right!"

Roy says she doesn't want to be "iconized" by the public, but it's happening anyway. After readings and speeches, she's mobbed by people seeking her handshake, her signature in a book or a photograph to prove they got close to this firebrand from India. Firebrand may be an understatement. Last Monday at the Hilton, where she addressed the American Sociological Association, Roy generated some of her biggest responses when she urged the United States to immediately pull its troops from Iraq and "pay reparations" to Iraqis, criticized John Kerry and other Democrats ("How dare the Democrats not be anti-war!") and described President Bush's Cabinet as "thugs."





Arundhati Roy was inspired by her mother, who successfully challenged India's inheritance law. Chronicle photo by John O'Hara

[fleabert]

41. cool woman, but she doesn't say much...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

48. Lordy! Don't let Asscroft see that!

:D

[RedCloud]

109. Finally, someone gets it!

I was looking for some Eskimo ladies here, but no.....

[The Straight Story]

46. Here are a few (of AutumnMist on DU, aka my wife)

She, to me, is a real cool woman :)

[ScreamingMeemie]

52. You're right! She is very cool...and classically beautiful. She needs

to be painted. I mean not on her face, but put her face on canvas. :hi:

[The Straight Story]

54. If I tried to do it

It would be a stick figure with red wire hair from using a red pen. I suck at some things, painting being one :)

[lpbk2713]

50. Patricia Neal

Look up "classy" in the dictionary and you see this picture.

[Blue Belle]

56. How 'bout:

[NV Whino]

57. Granny D

Sorry, no photo.

[elshiva]

81. Granny D shaking hands with Dennis Kucinich

[dajoki]

59. they didn't come any cooler than janis

no picture,sorry:shrug:

[ghostsofgiants]

61. Google Image Search is your friend

http://images.google.com

[ole_evil_eye]

64. Jena Malone

she's in Donnie Darko and Saved, 2 of my fave movies ever

[noamnety]

65. Granny D

[rndmprsn]

66. eva hesse

[alarcojon]

67. Purva Bedi

Indian-American actress.

[brainshrub]

68. Naomi Klein

And I don't mind admitting that I've had a little crush on her for years. (To bad she's married.)

[Schema Thing]

72. Smart, talented, beautiful, and taking it straight to GW Bush

in songs, and in-between songs. The irony is that Terri Hendrix on & off-stage collaborator is Lloyd Maines, father to Natalie Maines (Dixie Chicks).

Terri Hendrix:

[Misunderestimator]

73. Great thread! Gertrude Stein:

[elshiva]

84. JAI MA! Go Gertrude! AND Sappho!

[Deep13]

107. The loss of Sapphos poems...

...in the fire of the library of Alexandria is a crime against history.

[elshiva]

128. AMEN! You said it hon!

[micrometer_50]

77. Jo Serrapere

[orleans]

82. Laura Nyro

[La Lioness Priyanka]

86. tori

[enigmatic]

87. Molly Parker

[tarkus]

88. Me and my friend's actress of the year, Julianne Moore

We just kind of randomly pick people. We actually picked her last year when my friend was going crazy over Paul Thomas Anderson movies, but Scarlett Johanssen was the actress that year and so we just waited.



Edit: I have no idea how to make that display as a picture. You probably know what she looks like anyway.

[PittPoliSci]

89. Patricia Morrison

I *heart* the Damned.

[maveric]

93. Emmylou Harris, Bjork, Lauren Bacall.

[tigereye]

114. damn

I would let my hair go all silver, if I could look as good as Emmylou!

[Trish]

94. me!! :) and ani difranco, and barbara boxer, and many more

[gmoney]

95. A little less famous, but equally cool...DU women!

I post fleabert's picture because she doesn't seem at ALL bashful about doing so herself, so she's standing in for the many, many cool women who populate these boards, but who might not appreciate me posting their pictures...

She's so cool, she's bundled up, and has the cool FU attitude that doesn't take shit from anybody. Let's hear it for all the way cool DU women!

[freedomburn]

96. fleabert rocks!

So does Barbara Lee. Barbara Lee speaks for me!

[progmom]

100. Mary Lou Williams

[redqueen]

101. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

Great thread. :D

[Liberal In Texas]

104. Mindi Abair

[Dukkha]

105. Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Before World War I began, Marjory Stoneman Douglas began a life-long fight that would keep South Florida at the center of political and environmental controversy for most of this century: the battle to save the Everglades.

Douglas dedicated her life to urging people to stop thinking of the Everglades as a wasteland to be conquered; to think of the "River of Grass" instead as a paradise to be preserved.

I met her when she was 100 years old. She died at 108 on May 14, 1998

[Deep13]

108. The next President (or V.P.) of the USA...

Kathleen Sebelius, Gov. of Kansas (D)

http://www.ksgovernor.org/pressphoto.html

[alarcojon]

111. Carol Tavris

[Lisa0825]

112. Sibel Edmonds

*girl crush*

[chaska]

113. Nancy Sinatra's gonna walk all over you ... wi'them boots, ya see.

I resisted the urge to post the awesome nude pics that came up when I googled.

[chaska]

115. Laura Love

Damn, I've got good taste in women!

Laura Love is a lefty musician. She puts on a fantastic show. Buy her cds.

[geniph]

116. Gotta shout out to my two Senators

Senator Patty Murray:



and Senator Maria Cantwell:

[KFC]

117. Too cool for words

[redqueen]

118. .

:spray:

:rofl:

[redqueen]

119. HEY HEyHEY!

What the fuck's with this "could" shit?

Don't you mean "CAN"?

[Lilith Velkor]

120. Here's Emma Goldman

They don't come much cooler, IMFO.

[4_Legs_Good]

121. Natalie Merchant

[4_Legs_Good]

122. Dorothy Day...

Someone I want to learn a lot more about.

david

[KamaAina]

123. Aung San Suu Kyi has a Nobel Peace Prize. Now THAT's cool!

Now if we could just find someone over here to resists tyranny as effectively as she has... (sigh)

[alarcojon]

125. So has Shirin Ebadi

[bertha katzenengel]

124. Maya Angelou

[alarcojon]

126. Medha Patkar

[chaska]

130. Cindy Blackman - Lenny Kravatz drummer

[FizzFuzz]

136. I never knew about her--WOW!

women drummers RULE! Love that b+w pic!!!!

[VOX]

131. Elizabeth Edwards!

Cool, cool, COOL! :thumbsup: :bounce:

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

132. Diana Krall

[FizzFuzz]

137. Hazel Henderson

Hazel Henderson, founder, Ethical Markets Media, LLC and Series Creator and Co-Executive Producer of its TV series - Dr. Hazel Henderson is a world renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, a worldwide syndicated columnist, consultant on sustainable development, and author of Beyond Globalization, and seven other books. Her editorials appear in 27 languages and more than 400 newspapers syndicated by InterPress Service, Rome, New York, and Washington DC. Her articles have appeared in over 250 journals, including (in USA) Harvard Business Review, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, and Challenge, Mainichi (Japan), El Diario (Venezuela), World Economic Herald (China), LeMonde Diplomatique (France) and Australian Financial Review. Her books are translated into German, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Korean, Portuguese, and Chinese.

I only recently learned of her, but I want to know more--This book looks like a must-- http://www.hazelhenderson.com/ordering/bookPlanetaryCitizenship.html

Still More:
http://www.hazelhenderson.com/

http://www.hazelhenderson.com/additionalPictures.html

[FizzFuzz]

138. Wangari Maathai--Nobel Peace Prize 2004

Address by Professor Ole Danbolt Mjøs, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Oslo, December 10, 2004
Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Peace Prize Laureate, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,

"The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2004 to Wangari Maathai for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.

Peace on earth depends on our ability to secure our living environment. Maathai stands at the front of the fight to promote ecologically viable social, economic and cultural development in Kenya and in Africa. She has taken a holistic approach to sustainable development that embraces democracy, human rights and women's rights in particular. She thinks globally and acts locally." These are the opening sentences of the Committee's statement of its reasons for this year's Peace Prize award on the 8th of October.

http://gbmna.org/a.php?id=35