DarkChocolateMag

11/03/2022

🎶 Happy Birthday to composing and conducting pioneer Angela Morley!⁠
With the Oscars around the corner, we want to spotlight some of the women who made history and paved the way for us to continue to break barriers. ⁠
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Angela was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Music for her work on the film “The Little Prince.” While she did not win, she continued to thrive in the industry. She earned a second Oscar nomination for work on “The Slipper and the Rose” (1976) and went on to collaborate with John Williams on some of the most iconic music in “Star Wars.”⁠
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Journalist Kenneth LeFave interviewed Morley for The Arizona Republic where she revealed, “You know the scene in Star Wars where Luke descends to the Death Star trench and the voice says ‘Use the Force, Luke?’ That’s my orchestration.”⁠
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To learn more about Angela and her work, check out our link in bio:⁠
https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/periods-genres/film-tv/angela-morley-transgender-oscar-winner/

09/03/2022

Honoring the divine feminine, our foremothers, Mother Earth and the Yin that resides in all of us. All of creation comes from an equal union of two polarities that merge into One. Oneness is created through a balance and the remembrance that there is only one reality, one light, one darkness and Om Consciousness.

Today we honor the feminine that has been lost, that has been taken advantage of, that has been broken, and the feminine that is strong, loving, raging, vulnerable, warlike, peaceful, the entirety of this existence.

Maya, the illusion of life, is the manifestation of the divine feminine. Our bodies are all manifestations of the divine feminine spark. The wisdom we hold is Sophia, the divine spar and remembrance.

Today we remember the Mother of all mothers. we remember the womb that carried us, we remember the primal birth of all of humankind. We remember the times where She was worshiped, loved and honored. We also commit to bringing Her back to create the balance that the collective so needs, and that will be reflected in the state of the world and earth.

I call upon all the faces of the Goddess, all of her aspects and colors, and the womb-carriers all the way back to the Source for strength and power to move through this collective awakening and upgrading.

I honor You, Mother, Sister, Beloved and invoke all of the strength, healing and compassionate love that You need.

05/03/2022

Women hold up the sky🥰

For Women's History Month, we look to the women who've transformed television, from Lucille Ball to Katie Couric to Viola Davis.

27/02/2022

So powerful! ❤️❤️❤️
Artist Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, born in Zimbabwe in 1993 and now based in Britain, boldly raises questions in her art about the black body and its representation, as well as sexuality, gender, and spirituality.

This is her 2017 painting, Dance of Many Hands.

Oil and acrylic on canvas, 220 x 170 cm, 87 x 67 in approx

thank you! Celebration of Female Artists in History

24/08/2021

Why do our kitchens look the way they do?

Lillian Gilbreth, inventor, psychologist, industrial engineer, and kitchen planner.

Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878-1972) was an engineer with a PhD in applied psychology, and she and her husband had 12 children. She put her education to work, not in some abstract academic environment, but in discovering ways to make life easier both at home and at work.

Lillian conducted time-and motion studies to find ways to increase efficiency and reduce fatigue. Due to discrimination in the engineering community, Lillian focused on home economics. She “sought to provide women with shorter, simpler, and easier ways of doing housework to enable them to seek paid employment outside the home.”

Her own kitchen was described by her children as a “model of inefficiency” so in the 1920s, Lillian came up with the “work triangle” and linear kitchen layouts that are still used today. It included work surfaces at optimum heights and a “circular routing of working.” Lillian interviewed over 4000 women to come up with her design.

Lillian, who was known as the “mother of time management,” “America's first lady of engineering,” and “a genius in the art of living” was responsible for many major improvements in consumer products. She filed numerous patents for her designs. She is responsible for the placement of shelves inside refrigerator doors including butter trays and egg keepers, using a foot-pedal on a trash can to open it hands-free, improving the electric can opener, and even the idea of turning lights on and off with a wall switch.

During the Depression, she headed the women's section of the President's Emergency Committee for Employment. During World War II, she advised on education and labor issues (especially women in the workforce) for organizations including the War Manpower Commission, the Office of War Information, and the Navy.

A book about Lillian, written by two of her children, was made into the 1950 film, “Cheaper by the Dozen” starring Myrna Loy and Clifton Webb.

08/08/2021

La bestia! !

05/08/2021

Esta nena es lo máximo!!! Con 14 años! ! !

30/06/2021

I’M A BIG FAN OF WOMEN

I’m a big fan of women with raucous laughs,
women who overshare awkward truths,
when the conversation stalls.

I’m a lover of singing loudly in the car whenever possible
and I love pulling alongside a fellow diva doing the same.

I’m a big fan of women who love women,
who spot lipstick on teeth and help each other out,
when Mother Nature calls.

I’m a huge believer in comparison being the thief of joy,
that dimming someone else’s light,
won’t ever make yours shine more brightly.

I just can’t get enough of those women,
who are unashamedly themselves,
in technicolour glory.

I’m a lover of laughter and those moments,
when the tears of joy start to flow, give me life.

I think the best therapy is quality time with a friend,
who listens without judgement.

I’m a big fan of women who break, who share,
who rebuild each other and cheer along the way.

I’m grateful for this world half-full of fabulous females,
I see you all,
each and every one.

From ‘The Right Words’ by Donna Ashworth: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B095MZ3XFP/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_6QX0Y2EW59QD6JXJ635M
Art by Wyanne

28/06/2021

Howllll!

I have an African friend who is a Powerful Wild Woman in her own right. She once told me and mother and sisters that in our American culture, we don't wail when we are grief stricken. In her culture women especially will wail and weep and let it cleanse them. They will go outside their huts and just howl. Getting over ourselves is required to find ourselves. Our grief, our pain, our self-loathing that makes us want to lash out and judge others, is a result of not enough howling; in our grief when we realized as children, this world although so miraculous, is ravaged, people are ravaged, our Wild Souls are smothered and gagged.....but we never wailed. We never howled, and wept, with arms imploring the Heavens and the Earth. We were taught to fear grief and pain and longing. But our tears, our pain our anger are incredible tools and catalysts for our Awakening, our Growth. Stay Wild, Be Wild My Wild sister.

Anshin Beatrice Kelly

www.barefootfive.com