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Were the First Artists Mostly Women? (www.nationalgeographic.com)

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Meet the Night Witches, the Daring Female Pilots Who Bombed Nazis By Night - HISTORY (www.history.com)

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History of women-only spaces?

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Rise Up! A Digital Archive of Feminist Activism in Canada (1970s-1990s) (riseupfeministarchive.ca)

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Amazon Warriors Did Indeed Fight and Die Like Men (www.nationalgeographic.com)

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WMSTonline: Series of workshops on 2nd wave women's publishing and networks (wmstonline.com)

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[1983-2010] Harvard Library - Bi women:the newsletter of the Boston Bisexual Women's Network [US] (listview.lib.harvard.edu)

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Before Sappho: The World's First Lesbian Poet Enheduanna - CURVE (www.curvemag.com)

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Phyllis Pearsall: The woman who self-published The London A-Z because no publisher believed it would sell. (www.mhpbooks.com)

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Táhirih: Persian poet, theologian, and women's rights activist (19th century)

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Badass Where Sex Begins: The Chromosomal Investigations Of Nettie Stevens (womenyoushouldknow.net)

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Old World revenge -- 'Only a pig would marry you,' Domenico Cataldo says to Maria Barbella - New York Daily News (www.nydailynews.com)

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Doe, a Deer, a Female Deer: The Spirit of Winter Solstice (gathervictoria.com)

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Ida Lewis - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

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Badass Bessie Stringfield: The Motorcycle Queen of Miami - Atlas Obscura (www.atlasobscura.com)

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Remembering Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, the Regulator Who Saved a Generation of American Children (oneill.law.georgetown.edu)

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Feminist/diverse media for teenage boys

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Nzinga Mbande: The African Queen Who Fought Portuguese Colonialism for 37 Years (youtu.be)

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Remembering the Oft-Overlooked Women Victims of the Spanish Civil War (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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Pioneering fairytale author Madame d'Aulnoy back in print after centuries -- Woman who coined the term 'fairytales'' is to be published in English for the first time in more than 300 years (www.theguardian.com)

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Top 13 Most Powerful Queens in Ancient Africa (youtu.be)

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Badass Lidia Menapace, Who Fought Fascists and Sexists, Dies at 96 - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)

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White people oppressing white people

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[16 DEC 2020] Radcliffe’s 1936 exhibit celebrating women in university life - Conservative Curation, "Women in Science" on display | Harvard Magazine (harvardmagazine.com)

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