“National Votes for Women Trail” and Pomeroy Markers, Maybe there is one in your Town
Over the summer I noticed a new sign in the town square where I live. It said: Votes for Women...
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Category: Nasty Women Writers: Activists
Vera (Atkins) Rosenberg: A Romanian Jewish Woman Spy Who Fought the Nazis with Everything She Had (1908-2000)
I was unaware that women were sent behind enemy lines by the Allied powers as spies and...
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Woman Writer and Activist Alicia Garza: The Dynamics of Power
Let’s begin by saying that movements are not started with hashtags and there is a lot more to...
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Woman Writer, Educator and Activist Mary McLeod Bethune (1875 – 1955): Standing Tall in the Hall!
The statue of Mary McLeod Bethune was officially unveiled in the US Capitol earlier this month, on...
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Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America’s Concentration Camps by Michi (Nishiura) Weglyn (American Woman Writer 1926-1999)
The article 5 Japanese-American Women Your History Book Ignored by journalist Nina Wallace piqued...
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This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism by Ashton Applewhite (2019): “Make noise about this!”
Celebrating the New Year has always made me feel frantic, especially New Year’s Eve as the...
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Meridel Le Sueur: An Unrelenting Voice of the People
In Poet Warrior, Joy Harjo names several women who have mentored and supported her throughout her...
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Courageous Woman Writer Caroline Criado Perez
What would you think if you were told that you lived in a world with a large variety of...
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Happy 100th Birthday to Betty Friedan!
On February 4, 2021, Betty Friedan would have turned 100 years old. Although she passed away 15...
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