Category: Badass Women of History

Liberal Line Drawings Coloring Book and a Free DNC Word Find

It’s here! It’s here!

It can be pretty easy to let the current political climate push your buttons and push your blood pressure to the boiling point, so we’ve harnessed the therapeutic benefits of coloring and wrapped them up in unicorns, girl power and the first female Presidential nominee. Relive the optimism of the 2016 DNC Convention as you color and shade your troubles away.

We’ve packaged together all 13 coloring pages into one downloadable book with cover at a limited-time discounted price, for gift giving or for those who want a complete set. Fire up your printer!

We’ve been working on a coloring book based on the optimism we felt watching the DNC convention. For a lot of us, optimism is something we could use a little more of right now.

Coloring has been scientifically proven to help reduce stress and anxiety, so download your coloring book today and counteract the blood-pressure-rising effects of tonight’s debate.

You guys, seriously. It’s for your health!

You can purchase individual pages for download, or the whole kit and caboodle PLUS a full color cover at a discounted price for a limited time.

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All Liberal Line Drawing artwork created by Kelly Brown of GiveAnEff.com, for those who find themselves with an ever dwindling number of f*cks to give.

September 26, 2016
We Make it Rain on These Bros

STOP THE PRESSES.

THERE’S GONNA BE A WOMAN ON THE TEN DOLLAR BILL!

Oh, happy day. OH, HAPPY DAY!

There hasn’t been a woman on a piece of US paper currency in over 100 years, and we here at HBR are thrilled. THRILLED.

Now, please understand us. We know that this isn’t going to guarantee us equal pay— and we too would much rather see women MAKE money. We know that this does not come with reproductive rights. We understand that this isn’t the cure to rape culture, or the disease that is domestic violence. We know that if anyone is deserving of the boot off their currency real estate, it’s Andrew Jackson, with his murdering, enslaving, genocidal ass. We will even allow that unless Jack Lew has been living under a rock, he knows it too.

But dammit, we’re gonna have some representation! And it’s not a piece of currency like the coins that aren’t even recognizable as real or useful! They aren’t sticking us on something that’s been pretty much phased out! (Seriously, when was the last time you used a $2 bill? Exactly.)

We’re going to be on the $10. And while it’s admittedly not the best choice, we’re only human, and we admit our instantaneous reactions overrode all logic when Jane told us this was happening:

So this is actually happening!! Except that if we’re removing people from money, Jackson should really be getting the ouster: Woman to Appear on New $10 Bill

Karrie Anne: WHOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOO

Jane:                Don’t get too excited— you just know it’s going to be some colonial white lady.

Karrie Anne:   Deflate my bubble, JanieJane. Deflate my bubble. Can’t we have five seconds of nice things? GoT has ruined you.

Jane:             Alexander Hamilton’s Descendant: I’ll ‘Do Everything’ to Keep Him on the $10 Bill

Jane:                “Still, Hamilton said he recognizes the importance of having a woman grace one of the bills. Although he hadn’t thought about which woman might be a good fit, he suggested Alexander Hamilton’s wife, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, for the work she did to preserve her husband’s legacy.” WTF SEXIST ASSHOLE.

Karrie Anne:   Annnnnd here’s the dick. Right on cue.

Jane:                It’ll be the 100th Anniversary of women getting the vote, so I’m going to go with Elizabeth Cady Stanton?

Karrie Anne:   Ohhh, that’s a thought. Alice Paul?

Jane:                Sojourner Truth was my other guess. It’ll have to be someone from pretty far back to avoid (more) controversy, is my suspicion

Karrie Anne:   Hmmm, I see that. Either way, it won’t be anyone with a hint of controversy attached, like, say, Margaret Sanger.

Jane:                Rachel Carson!

Karrie Anne:   They’re not gonna go with a tree hugging hippie. I’ve got a better chance, lol

Jane:                Better than a sex-crazed porn-spreader.

Karrie Anne:   Well, when you put it like that…

(Jane here: I need to point out that I was referring to Margaret Sanger, not Karrie Anne, when I mentioned “sex-crazed porn-spreader.” Someone make sure her mother knows that.)

There’s been a lot of talk about why replace Alexander Hamilton, the founder of the American banking system, and not someone a lot more shady, like Andrew Jackson. (Aside from the aforementioned genocide, President Jackson was actually against the idea of a central bank and disliked paper currency.) There was even a very successful online voting site, Women on 20’s, devoted to the topic of replacing President Jackson with a woman.

According to their website, the $10 bill is simply the next in line for redesign. It was most recently changed in 2006, but was recommended for change ahead of the $20 bill to fight counterfeiting. Over here at Honey Badger Revolution, we always believe the government, so there will be no talk of conspiracies. Because if anyone supports the recognition of the role women have played in American history, it’s our government.

Weigh in with your candidate in the comments!

July 6, 2015
Moral Evolution (We’re Not There Yet)

The full text:

Plenty of people wish well to any good cause, but very few care to exert themselves to help it, and still fewer will risk anything in its support.

“Some one ought to do it, but why should I?” is the ever reëchoed phrase of weak-kneed amiability.

“Some one ought to do it, so why not I?” is the cry of some earnest servant of man, eagerly forward springing to face some perilous duty.

Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution.

Written by social reformer, women’s rights advocate and Badass Woman of History Annie Besant, who died in 1933. The quote has been sticking in my head all week.

It’s depressing that we’re not there yet, not even close. What’s it going to take?

June 23, 2015
Let’s Start a Revolution

Well-behaved women seldom make history.
-Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Hey Internet! We’re pretty sure you’re doing it wrong.

Let’s start with a history lesson, shall we?

Back in the day— originating in 16th century Italy and flourishing in 17th and 18th century France, if you’re interested— there used to be these things called salons. From Wikipedia:

A salon is a gathering of people under the roof of an inspiring host, held partly to amuse one another and partly to refine the taste and increase the knowledge of the participants through conversation.

Sometimes these salons were held in a lady’s bedroom, her close friends gathered all around as she reclined in bed. Sometimes they were held publicly in coffeehouses. History holds that women dominated salons, acting as organizers, regulators and mediators; enabling interaction and inviting debate between males and females, nobles and bourgeois, intellectuals of all minds and kinds.

This was the age of conversation, the Age of Enlightenment. It was the era of philosophers. People used their goddamn brains, and they spoke out, and they were ready to defend and refine their beliefs and theories, and new things came out of those discussions, and lo, it was good.

With the world wide web, we have the opportunity for another age of enlightenment and we are f*cking wasting it. We can read, discuss, engage on a global scale, in real time. Celebrities, geniuses, butt selfie enthusiasts: we’re all on equal footing on the internet. We could and should be doing great things, exchanging incredible ideas, making history every day.

Instead, people are sharing but not reading. Commenting but not listening. Talking but not thinking. Rather than using the virtual web that connects us all to further our knowledge and expand our worldview, we’re choosing to live in echo chambers of our own making.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
― Coco Chanel

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

It’s funny to think that speaking your mind, inviting intelligent debate and quite simply being who you are with all your being has become a revolutionary way of living.

It’s funny for a hot second until you actually think about it, and then it becomes enraging.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution… revolution is but thought carried into action.
-Emma Goldman

Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.
-Marianne Williamson

Welcome to our modern day salon. We haz opinions— on everything, trust us— and we’re not afraid to publish them.

Join the conversation.

Let’s start a revolution.

June 15, 2015