We know her name. This is Weyzero Abebech.
When Fascist controlled Italy attacked Ethiopia without declaring war, Ethiopia fought back as best they could, with weapons left over from the last war they had had with Italy, and used runners as communication, because they had no radios. They had four tanks, while Italy brought close to 800 with them. So when the Ethiopian Emperor, Haile Selassie, ordered the oldest son of all families, they answered. But it wasn’t just the men who answered...
@NanaWithSoul listening to the cranes and swans. Happy gal be happy.
Picasso almost ended Dora Maar's career, convincing her, when they were a couple, to quit photography because he was intimidated by her talent. There is a long list of artists suppressed by the petty hacks of European modernist movements, and a longer list of female innovators erased from public memory. Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning met similar resistance; Andre Breton and Dalí both also being misogynistic megalomaniacs who vanguarded surrealism from women...
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