A few years ago I went to a Man Ray show in London and learned about Lee Miller, and saw how many other "models" were both models and photographers. The women were out there doing the things, and they've been erased. https://twitter.com/Hanna_Jameson/status/1056211088818274304

In school we're given apologies: "it was harder for women to become artists then men"; "they didn't have opportunities for independence". They don't tell us that they were there, that they did great work, that they just don't make the textbooks.

At the Decatur Book Fest I met Lisa Yaszek, who just published The Future Is Female. She told us about how many women were writing science fiction in the early 20th century, how popular they were, how editors loved them because their stories sold https://smile.amazon.com/Classic-Science-Fiction-Stories-Pioneers-ebook/dp/B078QSQZ27?crid=ESUOW3TUN82D&keywords=future+is+female+lisa+yaszek&qid=1540704460&sprefix=future+is+female%2Caps%2C135&sr=8-1-fkmrnull&ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1

Adding to this thread a year and a half later because it came up in my feed again to say: this is one of the disservices fame does us. if male artists, in their time, get disproportionate attention, people will continue to pay them more attention, because they're well known &