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Badass TIL of Sheri Poe and Ryka athletic shoes: made for women’s feet specifically and pioneered by a woman

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Athletics Bradford women's forgotten cricket league told in play (www.bbc.com)

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Athletics How the sports bra continues to revolutionize sports and women’s rights: ‘No sports bra, no sport’ - The Athletic (www.nytimes.com)

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Art and Music With ‘One Guitar Woman,’ Sue Foley Honors the Women Who Helped Shape Guitar History | Acoustic Guitar (acousticguitar.com)

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Art and Music Premodern Women Artists and Patrons: A Global Bibliography Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance/Early Modern

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Art and Music See the New Tartan Pattern Created to Honor Women Accused of Witchcraft in Scotland Between 1563 and 1736 | Smithsonian (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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First Philippines’ ‘Elle Woods’: Meet the first woman to earn a degree from Harvard Law (interaksyon.philstar.com)

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Just a reminder. (youtube.com)

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Honoring the legacy of Emily Warren Roebling, who helped build the Brooklyn Bridge (www.cbsnews.com)

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Art and Music Sofia Gubaidulina dies at age of 93 | Bachtrack (bachtrack.com)

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Britain’s ‘trailblazing’ female war artists finally come out of the shadows | Art | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

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What is the Dominant Emotion in 400 years of Women's Diaries? (SEE COMMENTS) (www.youtube.com)

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Selma Miriam, Founder of the Feminist Restaurant Bloodroot, Dies at 89 - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)

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Art and Music Feature | Das Jahr: The Story of Women Composers Throughout History | Continuo Connect (www.continuoconnect.com)

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Badass In the steps of history's forgotten female explorers (www.bbc.com)

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This Women's History Month, readers tell NPR about the women who changed their lives (www.npr.org)

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Ancient History Lecture: She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia ca. 3400-2000 BC (www.youtube.com)

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Art and Music Female Solidarity in Paintings of Judith and her Maidservant by Italian Women Artists (artherstory.net)

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Badass The female explorers who braved the wilderness but were overlooked by the history books (theconversation.com)

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The Lesbians That Founded The Gay Village And The Mafia Alliance They Made For Protection (www.huffpost.com)

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Ancient History Suppressed Histories Archives: compilation of archaelogical women’s histories (www.suppressedhistories.net)

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Activism and Politics Black women's hair in the US

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Art and Music Roberta Flack, singer of 'Killing Me Softly,' has died at age 88 (www.npr.org)

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First First known cookbook by a Black American woman gets new edition 160 years later (www.npr.org)

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Books Book review: Alison Stone, 'Women on Philosophy of Art: Britain 1770–1900' (OUP 2024) (ndpr.nd.edu)

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