#WomensHistoryMonth
Women of the Mohegan Tribe: Mohegan Church Ladies’ Sewing Society #WomensHistoryMonth
Learn more about Mohegan Medicine Women and the matriarchal leadership structure in the Mohegan Tribe: https://mohegan.nsn.us/about/our-trib…
Carol Satyamurti - Ourstory
#WorldPoetryDay #Poetry #Bookstodon #WomensHistoryMonth #Feminism #Patriarchy
@StillIRise1963 @emsquared @sheepnik @anniemo71 @TCMuffin @harriettmb This one's for you 😊 ✊
This #WomensHistoryMonth, learn about the 🇪🇺 EU women helping Ukrainians in need!
🇫🇷 Meet @AxelleDavezac of #France. She is the Director General of @Fondationfrance, the leading philanthropy network in France. Learn more: https://rb.gy/cp6kox. #EUWomen4Ukraine @franceintheus
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUintheUS/status/1638204620081188864
Meet the women of NWS Wakefield: Fay, Jordan, and Allison. Thanks for all you do! #WomensHistoryMonth
Sydney Van Scyoc, despite the name, was an important FEMALE name in #sciencefiction, producing short stories and later novels from 1962 onward.
Her Cornie on the Walls (1963), is a sinister, evocative piece, pitting a sentient house against the sanity of its inhabitant. In many ways, the piece is part of the vanguard of the New Wave.
It also closes the era of the first volume of Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women (1958-1963):
https://journeypress.com/titles/rediscovery-science-fiction-by-women/
It's #WomensHistoryMonth and we're highlighting Women's Studies titles all month long on the blog!
Read an excerpt from the introduction of RECASTING THE VOTE: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement by Cathleen D. Cahill ⤵️
Today, we’re celebrating the first female Head of Sport Science in @MLS@sportsbots.xyz – @KellyFRoderick@twitter.com .
Part coach. Part scientist. All inspiration.
When Kelly isn’t knee deep in data or making load suggestions for CITY players, she’s busy breaking barriers.
#WomensHistoryMonth
Just in time for #WomensHistoryMonth, Marvel's fiercest heroines take the spotlight in an all-new 'Women of #Marvel' one-shot! Pick up your copy this Wednesday at your local comic shop along with these new #MarvelComics. https://bit.ly/3FC9qMO
As Women’s History Month continues, so do my photos of women in pop culture collectibles. Somehow, I haven’t yet featured Wonder Woman, who broke ground on television 50 years ago, but was shut out of film for decades more. I have plenty of examples, but the Hot Toys figures based on the movies remain my favorites. #WomensHistoryMonth
Join me Wednesday @ 6pm EST/5pm CST when #MusComEnt continues celebrating #WomensHistoryMonth with “Hidden Figures” (2016). Available via TUBI (https://tubitv.com/movies/714361/hidden-figures), here (https://ok.ru/video/803835546333) and Disney+ (https://www.disneyplus.com/movies/hidden-figures/2xa2YdiOJXQt)
(1/3)
'Benjamin Banneker and Us' traces generations of descendants of the mathematician
#BlackMastodon #womenshistorymonth #blackhistorymonth
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/21/1164663436/rachel-jamison-webster-traces-family-history-in-book-benjamin-banneker-and-us
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#fitness #gym #health #WomensHistoryMonth #exercise #fun #boston #humor #healthequity
Jojo Mehta & Polly Higgins did foundational work to #MakeEcocideACrime. In 2017, they co-founded Stop Ecocide, with the core mission of developing global support for an international crime of ecocide.
Polly died in 2019, but Jojo continues the work. Known for her ability as a communicator, she contributes to law conferences, diplomatic events, environmental summits and climate rallies.
https://www.stopecocide.earth/jojo-mehta-profile
Janetta Mary Ornsby (1871-1954) UK suffragist. 1919 1 of 7 signatories of foundation documents for Women's Engineering Society still going strong nrly 103 years later! Now all 7 WES founders have wiki pgs great it happened #WHM2023 #WikiWomenInRed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janetta_Mary_Ornsby
#WomenInEngineering #INWED #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM #STEM #engineering #WomenEngineers #WomenInHistory #ExtraordinaryWomen #WomenInCulture #STEAM #HistSTM #WikiWomenInRed #Wikipedia #WomenInHistoryShouldntBeAMystery
Instead of celebrating #WomensHistoryMonth and introducing you to another wonderful female #emdiplomacy historian, we want to talk about the legal working conditions in German and Austrian academia. (1)
What's your favorite Scarlet Witch quote? Celebrate #WomensHistoryMonth and discover the many times Wanda Maximoff has changed reality as we know it in these #MarvelComics: https://bit.ly/3yP7QUb #marvel
A living-legend and pioneer, the Thunder celebrates @NancyLieberman@twitter.com and her many contributions to the game in recognition of #WomensHistoryMonth. Lessons from a Legend, live now!
🎥 Watch more | https://bit.ly/3n3VmoW
📚 Read more | https://on.nba.com/401JD97
#blues #Monday #WomensHistoryMonth
I feel very fortunate to have seen Alberta Hunter live at The Cookery in NYC in the '80's during the span of her comeback! (Read her history!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdaNlZhmHoM
Doris Pitkin Buck was one of the founders of the Science Fiction Writers of America. She also taught English at Ohio State (where her path intercepted that of a few notables, like Ellison).
Most importantly, she wrote science fiction. Really good #sciencefiction. Her career spanned enough years that we included her work in both volumes of Rediscovery--both introduced by fellow Buckeye, @mareasie.
Worth getting the volumes just for that!
https://journeypress.com/titles/rediscovery-science-fiction-by-women/
Eight years after being admitted to the CA state bar, Annette Abbott Adams became the first female Assistant Attorney General in 1920 - one achievement of her notable legal career which spanned the course of decades. #WomensHistoryMonth #WHM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annette_Abbott_Adams
I took this picture with my phone while sitting in the full parking lot of a retail store. This tree was outside of my car window. It just stood there surrounded by carts, cars, and general human business. It does not know it is not in a forest. (Or, maybe it does.) It just knows it is a tree and it is doing what it is supposed to do. It is not allowing circumstances or the fact that it is not located in a place that makes it part of an awe inspiring landscape to stop it from being large and lovely. The afternoon sun still finds it. It caught my attention and compelled me to capture it. It is present and accounted for and being authentic. I aspire to be more like this tree. #Nature #SelfCare #Authenticity #SelfAwareness #BeYou #ShowUp #RadicalSelfCare #TakeUpSpace #BlackMastodon #HumanRights #WomensHistoryMonth #Boundaries #MentalHealth #Tree #Trees #Rest #Sunshine #Sun #Coach #Voice #Power
Within the half-million acres of forest belonging to the Mescalero Apache tribe in New Mexico, wildlife biologist Serra Hoagland studies the Mexican spotted owl. A Laguna Pueblo tribe member, she bridges Indigenous tradition and science, using acoustic monitors to track owl calls and responses.
Hoagland is the first Native American woman with a Ph.D. to work for the US Forest Service.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/indigenous-forest-management-hoagland
#WomensHistoryMonth #Conservation
photo: National Park Service/Public Domain
"I tell my little boys all the time - girls can do anything boys can do, and I'm an example of that."
Shannon Myers is the CFO of the @Titans@sportsbots.xyz, and setting a positive example from the highest level of an NFL front office. 👏 #WomensHistoryMonth
This #WomensHistoryMonth, learn about the 🇪🇺 EU women helping Ukrainians in need!
🇱🇻 Meet @centrsmarta of #Latvia. They are the main partner in Latvia’s support of gender equality activities in Ukraine. Learn more: https://marta.lv/en/. #EUWomen4Ukraine @Latvia_USA
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUintheUS/status/1637847635716341763
An inspiration to all, today we take a look at some of @MelanieLynneN@twitter.com's best moments in baseball! ⚾️
If you’re looking for influential women on tv, you have to talk about Buffy. The show broke a lot of ground, both for women and the lgbtq community. The character was terrific, and SMG deserved an Emmy. #WomensHistoryMonth
🎉 We're celebrating @getFANDOM's very own women, femme-identifying and non-binary gamers during #WomensHistoryMonth. First up are @awildjessichu and @Rinasaurus_Rex!
Find out which women in gaming inspire them most: https://bit.ly/3Z1JeSw
#EmbraceEquity #press
Congrats to alum Katrina Miller for being selected to the New York Times Fellowship! We are so proud 🥲
From our archives, read Katrina's reported essay about why Black women are underrepresented in Physics, and if bridge programs are a solution:
#physics #science #education #blackwomen #womenshistorymonth
Dee O’Hara (seen here with the Apollo 14 backup crew in 1971) was NASA’s first aerospace nurse, caring for the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo astronauts. Her career helped define the occupation of space nursing.
Read her oral history: https://go.nasa.gov/3mMjbkY
#WomensHistoryMonth
#NASAhistory
What an interesting #woman to celebrate on #womenshistorymonth …
One who understood the value of #education , independent #thinking & #art 👏🏼
From: @Sheril
https://mastodon.social/@Sheril/110055192031163130
When Michelle Obama was First Lady, she joined schoolchildren in the White House Kitchen Garden to harvest lettuce, bell peppers, sweet potatoes and tomatoes.
Photo: Reuters
Melania Trump as First Lady:
“[She] made quite the sartorial statement when she donned a jacket with the words, 'I REALLY DON'T CARE, DO U?' written across the back while boarding a plane to visit immigrant children being held at the border.." - Maya Contreras
At least seven women have claimed or been named as the "real" Rosie the Riveter.
#womenshistorymonth https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/03/20/real-rosie-riveter/
Happy birthday to Canadian medical researcher & #biochemist Maud Menten (1879-1960). Not only an author of Michaelis-Menten equation for #enzyme kinetics, she invented the azo-dye coupling for alkaline phosphatase, 1st example of enzyme #histochemistry, still used in imaging of tissues today & she also performed the first #electrophoretic separation of blood haemoglobin in 1944!
#sciart #histstm #histmed #biochemistry #linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #womensHistoryMonth
Helene Aldwinckle, Bletchley Park codebreaker, broadcaster & gallerist, lived in Dulwich for 35 years. #LocalHistory #WomensHistoryMonth https://www.dulwichsociety.com/the-journal/winter-2022/helene-aldwincke
Annette Ashberry 1st woman elected to Society of Engineers @TheIET. 1920s worked #Tongland car factory, set up & ran Atalanta Ltd womens' engineering co. Invented prize winning dishwashing machine. @womensengsoc memb. Later made mini garden for Queen b Mar 1894 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annette_Ashberry
#WomenInEngineering #INWED #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM #STEM #engineering #WomenEngineers #WomenInHistory #STEAM #HistSTM #WikiWomenInRed #Wikipedia #WomenInHistoryShouldntBeAMystery
#kOSTprobe aus unseren Neuerwerbungen zum #WomensHistoryMonth: Die Graphic Novel "Feministische Lesefibel: Ein subjektiver Leitfaden zur Geschichte der polnischen Frauenbewegung mit etwas feministischer Theorie" von Natalia Cholewczuk (2022): https://opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de/search?isbn=9788396464910&db=100&View=default
The stories of more #ForgottenWomen have been added - guest story from @chiddickstree #WomensHistoryMonth #FamilyHistory #Genealogy https://afewforgottenwomen.wixsite.com/affw/post/new-guest-story
In January 2015, Amata Coleman Radewagen became the 1st woman to serve as a territorial delegate for American Samoa in the US Congress. She then won reelection with the highest number of votes for any elective office in the territory. #WomensHistoryMonth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amata_Coleman_Radewagen
Elżbieta Zawacka code name Agent Zo #Polish #WWII #SOE agent freedom fighter, university professor, scouting instructor. Graduated in maths @ Poznan Uni 1930s. 2nd & last woman in history of Polish Army to hold rank of Brigadier General b. #OTD 19 Mar 1909 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%C5%BCbieta_Zawacka
#WomenInEngineering #INWED #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM #STEM #engineering #WomenEngineers #WomenInHistory #ExtraordinaryWomen #STEAM #HistSTM #WikiWomenInRed #Wikipedia #WomenInHistoryShouldntBeAMystery
#Chicago mornings can be eerily silent...
Perhaps someone can help me remember who the sculptor is? – #steeds
Update: Thank you @Cathrynamidei ! The artist is Magdalena Abakanowicz, Polish sculptor (1930-2017). This work is entitled “Agora”, which is a permanent installation located at the southern end of Chicago's Grant Park.
#SilentSunday #Photography #MastoArt #WomensHistoryMonth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalena_Abakanowicz?wprov=sfti1
#blackhistory #blackmastodon #womenshistorymonth
Dr.Betty Shabazz,Coretta Scott King, Myrlie Evers
Stunning women, beautiful
Janet Yellen made history as the first woman to chair the Federal Reserve. Nominated in 2013 by Obama, and confirmed 52-26 by the Senate, she was arguably the most liberal Fed chair since M. Eccles served under FDR during the Depression.
A defender of the Dodd-Frank Act which kept banks from excessive risk-taking, she was replaced by Jerome Powell in 2017, under Trump.
In 2021, she became the first woman Treasury Secretary under Biden.
Otis Kidwell Burger had only a brief flirtation with #sciencefiction, being better known today (if at all) as a poet. But her "The Pleiades" (1963), the story of an interstellar female performance troupe, will stay with you as long as any verse.
We were lucky to have found it, and we hope you enjoy it in your own Rediscovery:
https://journeypress.com/titles/rediscovery-science-fiction-by-women/
Her husband was arrested & he was sentenced to death by the Nazis. Lucie Aubrac led a dozen Resistance fighters in an ambush of the truck in which her husband was being transported & rescued him. She was 6 months pregnant at the time. She survived WW2 & died Mar 14, 2007 at age 94. (3/3)
#WW2 #Resistance #France #WomensHistoryMonth
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/mar/16/guardianobituaries.france
When I was first married, my mom gave me a journal/recipe archive, passed down by the women in our family for 150 or so years
It describes day to day, fears, hopes, and many many easy to make recipes for feeding families
Whenever I pick it up, it gives me a warm sense of connection to a side of the family I didn't know well
In one mission, Aubrac & team rescued 5 captured resistance fighters from police custody in Lyon. (Source: Women in the Resistance, Rossiter, p. 166) After WW2, this story was the theme of Issue 49 of True Comics titled “Lucie to the Rescue.” Her cinematic life in the Resistance was made into a feature film starring Carole Bouquet in the title role. A trailer for the movie may be seen here: (2/3)
#WW2 #Resistance #France #WomensHistoryMonth
https://www.metacritic.com/movie/lucie-aubrac/trailers/1082306
Lucie Samuel was better known as Lucie Aubrac. She was a history professor during the day & a member of the French Resistance at night. She & her husband published anti-Nazi propaganda, engaged in sabotage, & freed captured partisans from Nazi custody. Her infant son accompanied her to Resistance meetings. (1/3)
#WW2 #Resistance #France #WomensHistoryMonth
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/mar/16/guardianobituaries.france
@dyfrig @gethin76 I know nothing about cycling but as it's Women's History Month, I'm going to repost this convo with the hashtag, I hope you don't mind.
#WomensHistoryMonth
#OnThisDay, 18 Mar 2012, Berta Soler and dozens of other 'Ladies in White' activists are arrested for demanding the release of political prisoners in Cuba.
#OnThisDay, 18 Mar 1943, Francine Agazarian arrives in Nazi-occupied France to be a courier in the Special Operations Executive. SOE was a secret British organisation working with the French resistance.
“Once, with hand-grenades in my shopping bag, I travelled in a train so full that I had to stand against a German NCO.”
#HeroinesOfSOE #WomenAtWar
#WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #Histodons #WorldWar2 @histodons
Between 1851 and 1910 the ratio of men to women arriving in NYC from Ireland was roughly equal. Irish women often took jobs in domestic service, drawn by the provided housing, food, and clothing, which allowed them to send the bulk of their earnings back home to Ireland.
Listen & learn more on #UnsungHistory!
🎧: https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/irish-immigration
#HappyStPatricksDay #StPatricksDay #Irish #LuckOfTheIrish #History #WomensHistory #WomensHIstoryMonth #Podcast #Podcasts #Immigration #Immigrants #histodons
‘My desire to write is connected to my homosexuality.
I need the #identity as a weapon to match the weapon that #society has against me.
I am just becoming aware of how guilty I feel being #queer .’
— Susan Sontag
#women #womenshistorymonth #WomenLifeFreedom #LGBTQ #lgbt #quotes #oddproverbs #writing #WritingCommunity #books @bookstodon
For the last #printerSolstice prompt ‘variety’: my #linocut of Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940) with many #butterflies from her collection.
Her posthumous books featured her "wild and fearless life," but she was also a trailblazing famous #Victorian #lepidopterist, published in The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variations, expert on tropical butterflies, discovering, documenting, breeding & gathering specimen in
#printmaking #womenInSTEM #MargaretFountaine #histstm #WomensHistoryMonth
Women weren't allowed to major in genetics when Barbara McClintock attended Cornell, so she earned her PhD in botany instead.
Working on the chromosomal activity of maize in the '40s and '50s, she discovered genetic transposition, proving that genes turn physical characteristics on and off.
Initially met with skepticism, her work was confirmed in the '60s and '70s; she won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1983.
https://www.energy.gov/articles/five-fast-facts-about-barbara-mcclintock
graphic: Cort Kreer
Gwendolen “Bunty” Sergant 1953 took commission as #engineer in Women’s Royal Army Corps, Major by 1964. Worked all over 🌍 1969 responsible for planning care of @BritishArmy’s fleet of 160,000 vehicles. @womensengsoc President 1974-5 b. #OTD 17 Mar 1926 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwendolen_Sergant
#WomenInEngineering #INWED #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM #STEM #engineering #WomenEngineers #WomenInHistory #ExtraordinaryWomen #STEAM #HistSTM #WikiWomenInRed #Wikipedia #WomenInHistoryShouldntBeAMystery
Sorry to do this y’all but for those who don’t know I’m currently in the hospital and today’s been really rough so I’m gonna push #RetroView to tomorrow AKA actual #StPatricksDay so join me then for Irish music on @ 5pm EST/4pm CST. I hope to see y’all then, Next week we get back to #WomensHistoryMonth w/ “Hidden Figures”(2016)on #MusComEnt &celebrate the late great Stephen Sondheim’s birthday on #RetroView. Have a great rest of your week,y’all. Again,sorry for all of the schedule snags lately💕
Comet me, bro!
Astronomer Caroline Herschel, born #OTD in 1750, was the first woman credited with discovering a comet and the first woman to earn a salary as a scientist. She went on to discover 7 additional comets in her lifetime! #WomensHistoryMonth
#NASAhistory
Women represent less than 5% of the construction trade & other skilled workers in the U.S. Our virtual roundtable with ReImagine Appalachia will discuss where we've been, where we are, and where we need to go. https://reimagineappalachia.org/labor-women-who-lead/ #WomensHistoryMonth
Happy birthday to the scientific Cinderella, who escaped a life of domestic drudgery to become astronomer Caroline Herschel (1750-1848)! She discovered 11 nebulae (2 of which turned out to be galaxies) which were previously unknown! She also found 8 or 9 comets, as well as making and sharing observations of comets discovered by others.
#sciart #linocut #printmaking #astronomy #histstm #comet #womenInSTEM #womensHistoryMonth
Hildegard von Bingen - Voice of the Blood https://youtu.be/BS28jyW1bLY via @YouTube
We can bring more women into the trades with investments through the #InflationReductionAct and the #BIL. Our virtual roundtable with ReImagine Appalachia will discuss where we've been, where we are, and where we need to go. https://reimagineappalachia.org/labor-women-who-lead/ #WomensHistoryMonth
Hey folks!
This week on our weekly podcast "Now & Then" -- in honor of Women's History Month -- Heather Cox Richardson & I discuss 4 pioneering women journalists & how they pushed against gatekeepers to make their voices heard. We start in the 18th century and finish...today.
We found these women inspiring, creative, powerful, strong, & self-aware. Give a listen!
#podcast #history #histodon #womenshistorymonth #journalism #journalists
bit.ly/3ZQBapc
“Tódích’íí’nii nishłį́.”
“I am Bitter Water.”
That’s how Nikki Tulley would identify herself as a Navajo woman. Learn how her experiences growing up on Navajo Nation shaped her approach to water access as a scientist at
@NASAAmes.
Annette Kellermann, an Australian professional swimmer & the first women to wear a one-piece swimsuit, in 1907. The swimsuit was deemed inappropriate, which led to her arrest for indecent exposure. However, she continued to fight for equality throughout her life and even released her own swimwear line.
Julie Wolfthorn wuchs als Weise auf, wurde eine der anerkanntesten Künstlerinnen ihrer Zeit & trug maßgeblich zur #Emanzipation von Frauen in der Kunst bei.
Die erste Jüdin der Berliner Secession wurde ab 1933 aus dem Kunstbetrieb gedrängt und 1944 ermordet.
Hildegard von Bingen - Hortus Deliciarum https://youtu.be/G8MGiPo5IxU via @YouTube
Ella Fitzgerald was barred from performing at the Mocambo club in the 1950s due to her race. Marilyn Monroe, a fan of Ella's music, intervened and promised to attend nightly if they booked Ella. The owner agreed, & Marilyn kept her promise. Ella's career skyrocketed.
The Untold Stories of the Women Who Led Slave Revolts
Their inspiring acts of resistance were ignored or erased for centuries—until now.
#BlackMastodon #blackfedi #blackfriday #blackhistorymonth #womenshistorymonth
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/women-led-slave-revolts?mc_cid=3c1f72ab8a&mc_eid=e32dea2991
March is Women's History Month. You likely never heard of Maria Sibylla Merian (2 April 1647 – 13 January 1717), but she made groundbreaking contributions to the science of entomology & botany. Her botanical art is spectacular! The art style in the four minute animated video below is representative of Merian's style, but you should look her up online to see images of her original work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5PyrJUmKXM
#WomensHistoryMonth #WomensHistory #WomenInStem #STEM #STEAM #Art #Entomology #Botany
Marjorie Trees Townsend (née Rhodes) US electrical engineer. Started college at 15, 1st woman to earn engineering degree from George Washington Uni @GWtweets when she graduated in 1951. 1st woman to manage a spacecraft launch for @nasa b. #OTD 12 Mar 1930 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Townsend #WomenInEngineering #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM #STEM #engineering #WomenEngineers #WomenInHistory #ExtraordinaryWomen #WomenInCulture #STEAM #HistSTM #WikiWomenInRed #Wikipedia #WomenInHistoryShouldntBeAMystery
Charlotte Despard, an Anglo-Irish suffragist, founded the Women’s Freedom League. She was a defiant revolutionary who championed the poor and marginalized.
She made her last major public appearance at an anti-fascist rally in June 1933, aged 89.
Some women appeared like comets in the pages of #sciencefiction magazines, writing a story or three before disappearing.
One such woman was Joy Leache, about whom we know absolutely nothing save that she wrote three stories, one of which was the cutting and subversively feminist "Satisfaction Guaranteed" (1961).
Beautifully introduced by A.J. Howells, we invite you to enjoy one of the few glimpses of Joy Leache she left us during her life:
https://journeypress.com/titles/rediscovery-science-fiction-by-women
Vehicle crash tests are only required to use dummies shaped like the avg male. But the avg female is shorter and lighter, with different torso, hip & pelvis shapes, resulting in a greater likelihood of whiplash injury, e.g.
Now researchers in Sweden, led by Dr Astrid Linder, have developed a female crash test dummy that reflects these anatomical differences, in hopes that future car safety will be assessed for all parts of the population.
FERSI ©
#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 2006 and 11 Mar 2014, Michelle Bachelet is sworn is as President of Chile. She is the first woman to hold the role, and the first to be re-elected to it.
#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1959, Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, is the first play by a black woman to debut on Broadway.
#WomensHistoryMonth
#WomenWriters #LiteraryWomen #AmericanHistory #BroadwayHistory #Histodons #BlackHistory
#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1942, the current Waterloo Bridge in London opens. The construction force included many women, giving it the nickname “the Ladies Bridge”.
#WomenInHistory #WorldWar2 #BritishHistory #LondonHistory #Histodons #Engineering #WomensHistoryMonth
#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1928, hundreds of women march through London to a Communist Party rally, demanding better working conditions.
#WomenInHistory #WorkingClassHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons #WomensHistoryMonth
11) CLEMENCE HOUSMAN (1861-1955),
Author, illustrator, suffragette. Housman wrote ‘The Were-Wolf’ for a periodical's 1890 Christmas issue, which quickly sold out. Due to popular demand, the story was re-published as a book in 1896
#WomensHistoryMonth #ReadMoreWomen #gothic #literature #fiction #history #story #victorian #horror #fantasy #histodons #bookstodon
We will always have a personal fondness for Rosel George Brown, who was a nominee for the Best New Author nominee in 1958. Her #sciencefiction ran from dark to sublime, from domestic to cosmic.
Tragically, she died at the age of 41, just after the publication of her first novel, Sibyl Sue Blue.
TWO of her stories are included in Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women, and we think you'll enjoy them this #womenshistorymonth
https://journeypress.com/titles/rediscovery-science-fiction-by-women
For decades, Dr. Katalin Karikó struggled to get funding for her research on messenger RNA. In 2005, a paper she co-published on how to modify mRNA to dodge a cell’s defenses was ignored by the scientific community.
In 2013, she left Penn Medicine and took a role as VP at BioNTech for the opportunity to apply her experience with mRNA. Her work there laid the foundation for the first Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-11-23/the-messenger-rna-pioneers-everyone-ignored
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Karik%C3%B3_Katalin_Szegeden.jpg
For #Newstodon Friday, we have a news story for #internationalwomensday #womenshistorymonth: Samuel Ajala headed to the Tse Yandev Internally Displaced Person (IDP) camp in Benue State, Nigeria, to speak to women whose families and livelihoods have been shattered due to devastating floods in 2022:
We can bring more women into the trades with investments through the #InflationReductionAct and the #BIL. Our virtual roundtable with ReImagine Appalachia will discuss where we've been, where we are, and where we need to go. https://reimagineappalachia.org/labor-women-who-lead/ #WomensHistoryMonth
10) LUCY CLIFFORD (1846-1929),
English novelist, playwright & journalist. Her gothic fantasy ‘The New Mother’ follows 2 girls' descent into darkness and disruptive behaviour in order to gain the favour of a mysterious girl they met in the woods
#WomensHistoryMonth #ReadMoreWomen #gothic #literature #fiction #history #story #victorian #horror #fantasy #histodons #bookstodon
If ever there was an un(der)sung #sciencefiction author to celebrate during #Womenshistorymonth, it's Jane Rice.
First publishing a spate of stories during the '40s in Astounding's fantasy sister mag, Unknown, her work appeared sporadically through until 2003!
Her "The White Pony" (1960), is a beautiful after-the-bomb story, only once republished until "Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women".
Which is a shame, but at least a shame we were able to correct!
https://journeypress.com/titles/rediscovery-science-fiction-by-women/
Get to know Flemmie P. Kittrell this #WomensHistoryMonth:
“Throughout a trailblazing career that spanned half a century, she worked to enhance food security and to improve both diets and children’s health – under the umbrella of home economics.”