Feral AF- true tales of wild women

12/03/2025

Josephine Cochrane lived in an affluent home and frequently hosted lavish dinners, but she grew frustrated every time her delicate porcelain dishes were damaged by hand washing. Determined to find a better way, she famously declared, “If no one else is going to invent a dishwasher, I’ll do it myself.” Fueled by this resolve, she began designing a system that used pressurized water jets to clean the dishes, eliminating the need for scrubbing. With the help of a mechanic, she patented the first automatic dishwasher in 1886.

At first, her invention didn’t catch on in households, as many housewives of the time were skeptical of the machine or reluctant to change their routines. However, hotels and restaurants saw the potential in her creation and began using it, paving the way for her company, Cochrane’s Crescent Washing Machine Company. This company would eventually evolve into what we now know as KitchenAid, one of the most recognized names in household appliances.

Josephine Cochrane didn’t just create a revolutionary product; she became one of the few women of her time to lead a technology-driven company. Her legacy lives on in every kitchen where a dishwasher saves time and effort. Her story stands as a testament to the fact that innovation knows no gender or era—it only requires a mind willing to challenge the status quo.

08/03/2025

International women's day has been celebrated all over the world for 100 years. It's a reminder that we still have a long way to go. Equality scares some men because equality FEELS LIKE superiority to the privileged. Women still do not have autonomy over their own bodies. We still do not make the same pay as our male counterparts, and the disparity gets larger as the pay/position/responsibility goes up. We are making great strides in education as 56% of all medical school graduates are now women. But most importantly to remember, women are still disproportionately victims of domestic violence. 25% of all women are violently assaulted at least once in their life by an intimate partner. We still have a long way to go. Happy International Women's Day to every woman aspiring to equal rights. 💕

07/03/2025

Never underestimate the power of girls with dreams ✨️ 💪

21/02/2025

Sister Megan Rice was 82 years old when she committed the largest security breach in US History in the name of peace✌️ 🙌

Megan Gillespie Rice S.H.C.J. (Society of the Holy Child Jesus) (January 31, 1930 – October 10, 2021)[1] was an American nuclear disarmament activist, Catholic nun, and former missionary.[2] She was notable for illegally entering the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, at the age of 82, with two fellow activists of the Transform Now Plowshares group.[3] The action was a nuclear disarmament protest referred to as "the biggest security breach in the history of the nation's atomic complex."[2][4]

18/02/2025

18/02/2025

Katherine Johnson did hand calculations for NASA so they could make sure the calculations were correct. R.I.P. Katherine.

18/02/2025

HER NAME IS POETRY AND IS ETERNITY.
She was called Phillis, because that was the name of the ship that brought her, and Wheatley, which was the name of a merchant who bought her.
I was born in Senegal.
At thirteen, she was already writing poems in a language that wasn't her own. No one believd she was the author. At twenty years old, Phillis was questioned by a court of eighteen illustrious gentlemen in togs and wigs.
She had to recite texts from Virgil and Milton and some messages from the Bible, and she also had to swear that the poems she had written were not plagiarized.
From a chair, she gave up her long exam, until the court accepted her: she was a woman, she was black she was a slave, but she was a poet.
Phillis Wheatley, was the first African-American author to publish a book in the United States.
Dear Esteem Lovers of United Africa 🌍

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12/02/2025

08/02/2025

Bisan Owda is a 27 year old female Palestinian journalist, activist, and filmmaker from Gaza. In 2024, while surviving a genocide, she became a familiar face on social media, documenting the Israeli-Hamas war. She won an Edward R Murrow award for a news series show on Al Jazeera. She won a Peabody Award in the News category and then won an Emmy award for Outstanding Hard News Feature Short Film called "It's Bisan from Gaza and I'm still alive." 👏 👏👏👏👏 she is an incredibly brave woman with a unique insight into the unrest in Gaza.

08/02/2025

29/05/2024

Kira Roessler - Black Flag bassist from 1983 to 1985. Members of Black Flag heard Kira playing while she was in the band DC3. This led to her being asked to join Black Flag in 1983 to replace Chuck Dukowski. Roessler was majoring in applied engineering at UCLA, and Black Flag's subsequent tours were worked around her school schedule, which was a condition for her to join the band.

Her bass playing was featured on five of Black Flag's studio albums and two officially released live albums. She remained in the band until completing touring behind their album "In My Head" in the autumn of 1985, then graduated from UCLA in 1986.

📷 Gary Leonard