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Activism and Politics Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day, New York City, June 28th, 1970 (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Military General De Gaulle with the French Female Volunteers Corps in London - 1943 (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Martha Gellhorn Was The Only Woman to Report on the D-Day Landings From the Ground (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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First President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum breaks Mexico's political glass ceiling - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Art and Music Frances Benjamin Johnston: advocate for female photographers (faroutmagazine.co.uk)

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Science and Invention Grunya Efimovna Sukhareva! How history forgot the woman who defined autism | The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives

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Literature and Writing The World of Adrienne Rich - Dissent Magazine (www.dissentmagazine.org)

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Military Missing from history: the other prisoners of war – Trouble and Strife (www.troubleandstrife.org)

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Children of Vietnam war’s rape survivors unjustly bear the burden of others’ crimes | Tran Thi Ngai | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

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Ancient History The Bird and Clitoris Figurines continued: exchange with McMaster University Anthropologist (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Radical Feminist Perspectives —discussion of “The Real Facts of Life”

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They called us names, it didn't stop us: legendary women fuel Gen Zs' aspirations | Nation (nation.africa)

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A cool post about Ann Person, home-sewing revolutionist (www.tumblr.com)

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Education Why do we assume everyone had lice in the past? 🙄 - YouTube (youtu.be)

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Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party

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Military As the 80th anniversary of D-Day approaches, the inspiring story of the only two women honoured for sacrificing their lives in the Normandy invasion after helping 75 wounded troops to safety before going down with their hospital vessel | Daily Mail Online (www.dailymail.co.uk)

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‘My time has come!’: feminist artist Judy Chicago on a tidal wave of recognition at 84 | Art | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

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Protesters, pop stars and pioneers: 38 images that changed the way we see women (for better and for worse) | Women | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

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Athletics From a Reader: A First-Hand Account of a Record-Setting Swim to the Farallon Islands – Richmond Review/Sunset Beacon (richmondsunsetnews.com)

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Badass She flew a record-breaking US flight – but it was kept secret for years | CNN (amp.cnn.com)

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Mary Cassatt’s Women Didn’t Sit Pretty - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)

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She flew a record-breaking US flight, but it was kept secret for years (www.cnn.com)

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Education Chicago graduate makes history by earning doctorate at 17 | US education | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

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Science and Invention Menstrual Madness and Ovary Removal in the 19th Century — Lady Science (www.ladyscience.com)

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Badass Gallery of women's subcultural dress in the 1980s (visiblegirls.com)

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