Women's History

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The tragedy of Vincent van Gogh’s youngest sister Willemien—a feminist who spent 38 years in an asylum (www.theartnewspaper.com)

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Her 3,000-year-old bones showed unusual signs of wear. It turns out she was a master ceramicist (getpocket.com)

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Badass Two women dancing and menstruating. Rock art by Indigenous Australians from the Upper Yule River, Pilbara, Western Australia. (uploads.ovarit.com)

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

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Badass You don't need a man to be successful

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Forget Patrick: March 17 is also St Gertrude's Day, commemorating the patron saint of cats (theconversation.com)

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Medieval Babycare

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Female Slave’s role in Ancient Greece

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Prehistoric women were hunters and artists as well as mothers, book reveals (www.theguardian.com)

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Badass Anne Rice passes at 80

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A female mason perched high above Berlin, ca 1910 (uploads.ovarit.com)

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First The 1st Black woman to reach the North Pole - Unearth Women (unearthwomen.substack.com)

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Annemarie Schwarzenbach Died Defying Sexist 'Norms,' Only to be Redefined, Postmortem, By Sexist 'Norms' - The Velvet Chronicle (thevelvetchronicle.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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Activism and Politics London Lesbians in Leather on their way to pride, 1988. (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Badass Meet the Dutch girls who seduced Nazis — and lured them to their deaths (nypost.com)

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Art and Music Documentary: Some of Bach’s great masterpieces were composed by his wife (archive.ph)

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Woman’s name and tiny sketches found in 1,300-year-old medieval text (www.theguardian.com)

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Women Dominated Beer Brewing Until They Were Accused of Being Witches (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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History that seems to be ignored by mainstream

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Badass Elinor Otto, longest-serving ‘Rosie the Riveter’ who built airplanes until she was 95 – obituary (web.archive.org)

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Women did not get the right to sit on juries in Quebec until... 1971

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The 15th-century Welsh poet censored for talking about her vagina

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Badass Why are our cities built for 6ft-tall men? The female architects who fought back (www.theguardian.com)

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First The first female U.S. mayor was nominated by men as a joke. She won with 2/3 of the vote. (www.upworthy.com)

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