Suffragette Graphic Novel and Weightlifting While Pregnant

There is some great greenYgrey artwork by Kate Charlesworth and Brian Talbot in the new graphic novel by the latter’s wife Mary M. Talbot. I was alerted to Sally Heathcote: Suffragette by Larushka Ivan-Zadeh in the Metro. In this thrilling blog post, there’s also some great greenygreying by Meghan Umphres Leatherman… unbelievably while weightlifting heavy weights at nine months pregnant.

Suffragette Graphic Novel 

Writing in the 18th century, Mary Wollstonecra...
Writing in the 18th century, Mary Wollstonecraft is often hailed as the founder of liberal feminism. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Hi, it’s Mary Werewolfstonecraft, established satirical comedy philosophy correspondent at the Greenygrey. For humans reading this, my closest parallel in the human world is Mary Wollstonecraft, who is described in Philip Stokes’s Philosophy: 100 Essential Thinkers as the original feminist.

Yes, I did enjoy the great greenYgrey artwork in Mary M. Talbot’s Sally Heathcote: Suffragette. A good example of this is on the cover:

There’s also more examples via a Google Images search:

Woman Weightlifts While Pregnant

They say women are better at multitasking, but Meghan Umphres Leatherman seems to have taken this to gargantuan lengths. Leatherman not only weightlifted while nine months pregnant, but also got in some great old-fashioned Greenygreying in this Barcroft TV video reported on Yahoowith her coach also joining in a phenomenal human-construction GGing example:

https://uk.screen.yahoo.com/video/playlist/barcroft-media-videos/pregnant-weightlifter-still-pumping-iron-103000858.html?format=embed&player_autoplay=false

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