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Lorraine Hansberry: A Voice we need NOW! American(1930-1965) By Theresa C. Dintino
Lorraine Hansberry is a National Treasure. We need her voice. Especially now when, as a country we...
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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women – And Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura (2021)
On January 23, 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell was awarded a medical degree. She was the first woman in...
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Mary Ball Washington: The “First Mother” of The United States of America was kinda #Nasty, American (1707-1789)
Mary Ball Washington, the mother of George Washington, first President of the United States of...
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Austin Channing Brown: Leading Conversations About Racial Justice
Scrambling to educate myself after being faced with the realization of what I don’t know and of...
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Paula Modersohn-Becker: Women and Ambition, German (1876-1907) by Theresa C. Dintino
What if there were a woman born in the late 1800s with the ambition to paint a way no woman had...
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Zora Neale Hurston: Hiding Places
In 1942, writer, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston rented a room on the second...
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Women, Ambition and Recognition
I knew when I set out to write about #nastywomenwriters from Herstory that I wished to restore the...
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A Tipping Point: Open Spaces in Our Public Places
My sister Theresa and I started this website, Nasty Women Writers, three years ago, our goal being...
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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women – And Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura (2021)
On January 23, 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell was awarded a medical degree. She was the first woman in...
Sonya Renee Taylor: The Map Back to Ourselves
Since reading Sonya Renee Taylor’s book The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical...
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Ada Lovelace: Math, Vision, and Ambition in a Woman Meets Certain Death in Victorian England
When I think of Ada Lovelace 1815-1852, widely recognized as the first computer programmer, I...
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Sonya Renee Taylor: The Map Back to Ourselves
Since reading Sonya Renee Taylor’s book The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical...
Ada Lovelace: Math, Vision, and Ambition in a Woman Meets Certain Death in Victorian England
When I think of Ada Lovelace 1815-1852, widely recognized as the first computer programmer, I...
Welcome, Controversy. We’ve been expecting you.
We’ve been waiting months for the delayed unveiling of Maggi Hambling’s sculpture honoring Mary...
This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism by Ashton Applewhite (2019): “Make noise about this!”
In 2019 one of my sisters gave me a copy of the book This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism,...
Women, Ambition and Recognition
I knew when I set out to write about #nastywomenwriters from Herstory that I wished to restore the...
A Tipping Point: Open Spaces in Our Public Places
My sister Theresa and I started this website, Nasty Women Writers, three years ago, our goal being...
The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women – And Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura (2021)
On January 23, 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell was awarded a medical degree. She was the first woman in...
Willa Cather: A Forever View of the Mountain
Last week, my sister Theresa and I took advantage of the opportunity to visit the grave of...
Justice Ginsburg Day: Honoring the ‘Judicial Giant’
Monday, March 15 would have been Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s 88th birthday....
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