Brussels metro map pays tribute to feminist pioneers
Brussels commuting re-imagined. Only a few metro stations are currently named after women, including Sainte Catherine, Louise, the daughter of Belgium s King Leopold II, and Joséphine-Charlotte, the first child of (Photo: Friends of Europe)
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A feminist remake of the Brussels metro map pays tribute to the women who have shaped European history, from Simone Veil to Joan of Arc.
Inspired by writer Rebecca Solnit s and geographer Joshua Jelly-Schapiro s City of Women project, European think-tank Friends of Europe redesigned the Brussels map to mark Europe Day.
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Mother, like police, judge and father, is both a noun and a verb. Those are things that some of us are and some of us do. Itâs noteworthy that the verb father means little more than begetting, while mother as both noun and verb stirs up a whole ocean of ideas about ceaseless love and nurture and caregiving. The ideal seems so lofty no mortal can live up to it, and while fathers are often praised for doing more than nothing, mothers are often castigated for doing less than everything and for not doing it perfectly. And perfectly, for mothers, tends to mean selflessly, superhumanly, relentlessly. Giving birth is as biological as it gets, but the job assignment from there on out seems to be for a deity or the Virgin Mary.