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Tell us about your foremothers

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Happy 19th Amendment Day!

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Ancient History Living example of Neolithic Goddess religion

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Brothels in concentration camps

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The 10 Ways Men Identified Witches In Salem Are Still Way Too Familiar | by Linda Caroll | History of Women | May, 2023 | Medium (medium.com)

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Badass The Janes 1960s underground abortion network | CNN (www.cnn.com)

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The Castrati and Eunuchs in history

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Finding Lost Names

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Activism and Politics Joan Little: First Woman Acquitted of Murder for Defense Against Sexual Assault | WE Survive Abuse (www.wesurviveabuse.com)

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First The first woman to earn an academic degree

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Women's History: Now With Fewer Women!

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Before Roe v. Wade, the women of the Jane collective learned to give safe abortions themselves (timeline.com)

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Philippine 'Comfort Women': Demanding Justice From Japan For WWII Sexual Slavery (www.npr.org)

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More women that disguised themselves as men to go into roles they were denied. (lilymaynard.com)

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Badass Based JKR artwork from Le Figaro newspaper (featuring Simone de Beauvoir and Colette) (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Think women have never had it so good? You should take a look at medieval days (www.theguardian.com)

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Art and Music Behold 900+ Magnificent Botanical Collages Created by a 72-Year-Old Widow, Starting in 1772 | Open Culture (www.openculture.com)

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Groundbreaking female composer’s lost madrigals to be heard for first time in 400 years | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

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Catalonia pardons more than 700 women executed for witchcraft between the 15th and 18th centuries | Daily Mail Online (www.dailymail.co.uk)

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Uncovering the Stonewall Lesbian: Storme DeLarverie was there that infamous night. Now she's coming clean about it all. (www.thefreelibrary.com)

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50 Things You Never Knew Were Invented by Women (247wallst.com)

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

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Activism and Politics A Brave Young Woman Fought a Centuries-old Cruel Sicilian Tradition and Won (www.thevintagenews.com)

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Badass Feminist, surgeon, spy: Meet the only woman to ever receive the Medal of Honor (taskandpurpose.com)

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Mexican farmers find rare female statue in citrus grove (abcnews.go.com)

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