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Mighty Girls
Posted on: March 29, 2014
![Licia Ronzulli is an Italian member of the European Parliament known for bringing her daughter, Vittoria, to the Parliament's plenary sessions. She first brought her daughter to a plenary session when she was 44 days old as a symbolic gesture to support more rights for women in reconciling work and family life. This composite picture shows the mother-daughter duo at Parliament sessions from September 22, 2010 to November 19, 2013. </p><br />
<p>Vittoria is one little Mighty Girl who will be well-prepared to run for office herself one day!</p><br />
<p>To inspire your Mighty Girl with more stories about women in politics and government, visit our "Political Leaders" biography section at http://www.amightygirl.com/books/history-biography/biography?cat=211</p><br />
<p>For stories of female trailblazers in politics, science, the arts, athletics and more, visit A Mighty Girl's "Role Models" section at http://www.amightygirl.com/books/history-biography/biography </p><br />
<p>News coverage of Ronzulli's story has generated a lot of discussion on family leave policies, especially around the fact that only four countries in the world have no national law requiring paid maternity leave: Liberia, Papua New Guinea, Swaziland, and the United States. To learn more about the lack of paid family leave in the U.S. and a group working to give all Americans access to paid family leave, check out @[8321461609:274:MomsRising.org] at http://bit.ly/mOQbVO</p><br />
<p>Photo credit: Vincent Kessler and Jean-Marc Loos/Reuters](https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t1/p320x320/1450705_601052506597733_285779700_n.jpg)
Political leaders: Dressed for war drags
In a political critique with a cutting comical tone, artist saint hoax has created a series of short animated gifs, which transform international political leaders into elaborately dressed-up drag queens.
From Russia’s vladamir putin to america’s former president george bush, the government chiefs are reworked into female forms, wearing ornate jewels and extravagant hairdos. struck by the richness of the glamor oriented culture, saint hoax subsequently bridged a connection to the bureaucratic sphere.
saint hoax dresses political leaders for war drags you out
‘It got me thinking that behind every ‘great’ man, there’s a queen.’ saint hoax describes the commentary the collection of moving images makes.
He resumed: ‘like drag queens, political/religious leaders are expected to entertain, perform and occasionally lip-sync a public speech. but unlike drag queens, the fame hungry leaders don’t know when to take their costumes off.’
vladdy pushin’ (1952)
baricka o’bisha (1961)
kimmy jungle (1983)
madame o’ sane (1937-2006)
hitleria hysteria (1889-1945)
ossie b’ (1957-2011)
queen abby (1924)
saint hoax dresses political leaders for war drags you out
(above) georgia buchette (1946)
all gifs courtesy of saint hoax
