“Technically a witch is always a lady except when circumstances dictate otherwise.”
Angela Lansbury in the Walt Disney musical fantasy Bedknobs and Broomsticks, 1971. Set in England during World War II, Angela’s character uses magic to heroically drive the Nazis from Britain’s shores.
Better than Mary Poppins.
I’ll be watching this this month!
Angela Lansbury brings suits of armour to life to smack the Nazis around it’s amazing
Tuira Kayapó brandished her machete in the face of a government official who was trying to convince indigenous leaders to accept a mega-dam project in the Amazon, 1989
“Electricity won’t give us food. We need the rivers to flow freely. Don’t talk to us about relieving our ‘poverty’ – we are the richest people in Brazil. We are Indians.”
part of kayapó’s speech during this event
also! she’s still alive! that sort of thing is always worth pointing out to show that we really aren’t too far removed from events like this! here’s a 2019 photo of her:
BRASIL MENCIONADOO
If i’m not mistaken, the constructions were frozen for over a decade for her action
We should be more pro-active or we’ll see more of such sad fates of honest people.
And the utterly ironic thing is I’ve seen repeated tumblr posts of that iconic photo absolutely slagging the shit out of Peter Norman as “lol white guy so uncomfortable” “Why the fuck isn’t he supporting them”, etc etc.