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A woman bought a vintage dress at an antique store. It had a secret pocket with a mysterious note | CNN (www.cnn.com)

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Literature and Writing Women’s sex lives were a mystery to men. Then along came Shere Hite | Yvonne Roberts | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

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British pro-suffrage poster (ca. 1912-13) (uploads.ovarit.com)

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TIL the first female leader of the Cherokee Nation was Wilma Mankiller. No surprise, she was totally badass.

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A glimpse of the misogyny feminists faced - 1927

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First BBC Witness History podcast: The first lesbian couple to marry (www.bbc.co.uk)

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"To My Philosophy Professors" - poem from "dreaming of kaleidoscopes"

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Activism and Politics Hatpin Panic: How Hat Pins Upended Gender Politics in the 20th Century!

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Maureen Flavin Sweeney Dies at 100; Her Weather Report Delayed D-Day - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)

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Art and Music Musical ensemble specialises in work of female composers through the ages (www.clausura.org)

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Art and Music 2024 Museum Exhibitions Featuring Historic Women Artists (artherstory.net)

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Work and Economics Photo from Tradeswomen Magazine, 1982 (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Ancient History Archaeologists find baby's head in pelvis of ancient Egyptian teen mom who died in childbirth more than 1,500 years ago - and she was buried with the decapitated body | Daily Mail Online (www.dailymail.co.uk)

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Art and Music French and Saunders: How they proved that women are funny (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Paula Murphy, Once ‘the Fastest Woman on Wheels,’ Dies at 95 - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)

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Art and Music Severed Heads and Women Artists | The National Endowment for the Humanities (www.neh.gov)

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"In the Men's Room(s)" by Marge Piercy

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from Jeffreys’ The Spinster and her Enemies

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Activism and Politics “Couple at International Gay & Lesbian March” — Photograph by Bettye Lane, September 19th 1984 (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Iconic feminist quotes?

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Science and Invention Pioneer Women Astronomers Flourished a Century Ago (finance.yahoo.com)

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Activism and Politics The barriers women still face in the legal profession decades after O’Connor’s appointment (www.pbs.org)

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Badass Judit Polgár is the woman who defeated Kasparov, Karpov and Spassky in chess (www.thevintagenews.com)

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Activism and Politics Polish-Swedish woman Danuta Danielsson hitting a marching Neo-Nazi with a handbag, 1985 (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Activism and Politics The first female cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova and Marxist feminist activist Angela Davis, 1970s (uploads.ovarit.com)

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