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Jill Hasday@jillhasday.bsky.social · 15h ago

On this day in 1876, Mary Ritter Beard was born. Her 1946 book, Woman as Force in History, criticized male historians for ignoring women. She argued that women “have been a force in making all the history that has been made.” A male reviewer called Beard’s book “rather waspish.” #WeTheMen

#OTD Bertha Benz was the first person to drive an automobile over a long distance on 5 August 1888, rigorously field testing the patent Motorwagen, inventing brake pads and solving several practical issues during the journey of 65 miles (105 km).

You can also read about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/doroth...

Ceryl@politicdormouse.bsky.social · 20h ago

Dorothéa Klumpke US astronomer. 1893 PhD on rings of Saturn @ Uni Paris. 1886 Director Bureau of Measurements @ Paris Observatory Carte du Ciel project. Worked w husband to photograph 52 Herschel areas of nebulosity. Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur b #OTD 9 Aug 1861 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothe...

She's also one of the hundreds of women in my new book, The View from the Hill: Women Who Made Their Mark After 40 www.infinite-women.com/women/lubain...

womensartbluesky.bsky.social@womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23h ago

Turner Prize winning Zanzibar-born British artist, curator, and writer Lubaina Himid has been an important voice on issues of race, feminism, identity, and representation in Britain for the past thirty years #WomensArt

It is a truth universally acknowledged that buying books and reading books are two completely separate hobbies.

Alex Churchill@alexchurchill.bsky.social · yesterday

Yup. Tis I.

Y'all, I got a YouTube ad for *yachts*, which is wild all on its own, but the video I was watching was about how Goodwill has gotten too expensive.

on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...

In the 70s-80s, thanks largely to Frances, women accounted for ½ of the experimental compiler group inside IBM “One of the many things Fran did was attract women to her field,” said Jeanne Ferrante, who worked alongside her for over a decade. “She looked out for the people who were underrepresented”

Infinite Women@infinite-women.com · 2d ago

#OTD: computer scientist Frances Allen was born 4 August 1932, dying exactly 88 years later on 4 August 2020. Known for her work optimizing compilers, she worked at IBM for 45 years, becoming the first woman named an IBM Fellow. Read more about her at infinite-women.com/women/frances-allen

#OTD: computer scientist Frances Allen was born 4 August 1932, dying exactly 88 years later on 4 August 2020. Known for her work optimizing compilers, she worked at IBM for 45 years, becoming the first woman named an IBM Fellow. Read more about her at infinite-women.com/women/frances-allen

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American computer scientist renowned for her pioneering work in optimizing compilers.

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#OTD: the Treaty of Cambrai was made between Holy Roman Empire and the French on 3 August 1529. It was called the "Peace of the Ladies" becasue it was negotiated by Louise of Savoy (pictured in black) and Margaret of Austria (pictured in white).

This week on the podcast: Dr. Beth Hubble, professor of Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies at University of Montana, returns to tell us about Moroccan feminist writer & sociologist Fatma Mernissi. Listen: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/... Transcript: www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/u...

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Regular listeners may recognize Dr. Beth Hubble, professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Montana, from previous episodes about transgender histories, the French medieva...

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Things I and friends have done to calm an angry abusive man from further escalating and killing us or our children: -Smiled -Kept normal schedules in order not to trigger a fight -Appeased with kind acts (cooking, cleaning, favors) -Forced friendly tones and words

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 4d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

You can read and listen to a podcast about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/louise... and she's also in my book The View from the Hill: Women Who Made Their Mark After 40 www.infinite-women.com/books/

womensartbluesky.bsky.social@womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 3d ago

Maman, 1999 Sculpture by Louise Bourgeois #womensart #Monday

#OTD After the execution of her husband on 2 August 1343, Jeanne de Clisson sold her estates and raised a force of men and began attacking French shipping and ports. Read more about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/jeanne-de-clisson or in The View from the Hill www.infinite-women.com/books/

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Known as the Lioness of Brittany, Jeanne turned to piracy to avenge her husband, who the French king had had executed for treason.

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You can read more about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/paris-...

Admirable Women@admirablewomen.bsky.social · 4d ago

Paris Pişmiş: 1st professional astronomer in Mexico. + Academic founder of #astrophysics & instrumental to astronomy becoming a professional academic discipline (#Mexico) + Established the 1st formal #astronomy & astrophysics curricula at UNAM Died #OTD in 1999. #WomenInSTEM #WomenAstronomersDay!🔭

She's also one of the hundreds of women featured in my book Uncredited: Women’s Overlooked, Misattributed, and Stolen Work: www.infinite-women.com/women/gerda-...

Admirable Women@admirablewomen.bsky.social · 4d ago

Photojournalist Gerda Taro was the first female war photographer to be killed covering the front lines of combat. Her work documenting the Spanish Civil War fundamentally altered the standards of modern war photojournalism. Born #OTD in 1910. Her legacy was largely erased by history until... 1/2🧵

You can read more about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/kathe-...

womensartbluesky.bsky.social@womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 4d ago

Käthe Kollwitz, Sleeping Woman with Child, 1930 #womensart

You can read more about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/lucy-g...

WomanToday@womantoday.bsky.social · 5d ago

1/ Lucy Goode Brooks (1818–1900) was an American slave who was instrumental in the founding of the Friends' Asylum for Colored Orphans in Richmond, Virginia. Goode was born to the slave Judith Goode and a white man. #WomanToday

You can read more about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/helen-...

Admirable Women@admirablewomen.bsky.social · 4d ago

Helen Sawyer Hogg: one of the most prominent & celebrated astronomers of the 20th century. She revolutionized our understanding of the universe through her foundational research on globular clusters--massive, spherical groupings of closely packed stars orbiting the core of our galaxy. #WomenInSTEM🧵

You can also read about Roundtree at www.infinite-women.com/women/dovey-...

Zinn Education Project@zinnedproject.bsky.social · 5d ago

#tdih 1952 22-yr-old WAC Sarah Louise Keys Evans from NC bravely refused to give up her seat for a white man on charter bus from NJ to NC. She was arrested, filed suit (with lawyer Dovey J. Roundtree), & won in Keys v. Carolina Coach Co. #TeachTruth Read ⬇️. 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/sa...

#OTD German astronomer, Caroline Herschel identified a comet and became the first woman to discover one on 1 August 1786. She alerted other astronomers about her discovery, allowing them to study its path.

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Caroline Herschel recorded the observations and did the calculations on the data of her astronomer brother William.

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@politicdormouse.bsky.social Henriette was DEFINITELY AN ENGINEER. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henriet...

Henriette Negrin - Wikipedia

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Kate Strasdin@katestrasdin.bsky.social · 6d ago

For decades, the pleating technique associated with Fortuny’s famous Delphos and Peplos designs were attributed to the man himself, but evidence shows that it was created by his wife Henriette Nigrin. It is all thanks to her that these shimmering wonders exist. #PalazzoFortuny #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

You can read more about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/sarah-...

Feministory@feministory.bsky.social · 6d ago

7/31/1831 — b. Sarah J. Garnet, American educator, suffragist. The first Af-Am woman principal, New York City public school system (1863); founder, Equal Suffrage Club for black wmn, Brooklyn; superintendent of suffrage, National Association of Colored Women #womenshistory #EduSky #womensrights #woc

You can read more about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/evonne...

Admirable Women@admirablewomen.bsky.social · 5d ago

Evonne Goolagong Cawley (b. #OTD in 1951) broke systemic barriers as one of the most prominent #Indigenous Australian athletes in history. #tennis + 14 Grand Slam titles (1971-1980) + World No. 1 ranking, 1976 + First mother to win Wimbledon in the Open Era, 1980 #WomenInSport

You can also read about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/doroth... courtesy of @ninabake2.bsky.social

Ceryl@politicdormouse.bsky.social · 5d ago

Dorothy Spicer UK aviatrix, 1st woman to gain advanced qualification in #aeronauticalengineering. Amy Johnson teased her @wes1919.bsky.social event "amidst much laughter...to admit or deny...that she held every licence that it was possible to hold" b #OTD 31 Jul 1908 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy...

#OTD Babe Didrikson's first event at the Olympic Games was the javelin throw, on 31 July 1932, the first time women's javelin was in the Olympics. 1/2 www.infinite-women.com/women/mildre...

You can read about Lange at www.infinite-women.com/women/doroth... and in my book The View from the Hill: Women Who Made Their Mark After 40 www.infinite-women.com/books/

womensartbluesky.bsky.social@womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 7d ago

Migrant child at a bean picker's camp, Oregon, 1939 by US photographer Dorothea Lange #womensart

You can read and watch a video about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/marie-...

Admirable Women@admirablewomen.bsky.social · 6d ago

Geologist & oceanographic cartographer Marie Tharp (born #OTD in 1920) mapped the N. Atlantic seafloor in 1957 & the entire global #ocean floor by 1977. Her work revealed the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and helped validate continental drift, transforming modern earth science. #WomenInSTEM #Cartography 1/2

In the section of hell reserved for people who play videos etc on public transport without headphones, I hope they save an extra special seat for the old white man on my bus who refused (when asked) to turn off a news segment he was playing for all to hear about a woman "plunging to her death."

We need a social section on any communal transport (buses, planes, trains, etc) for all the chatty people to make friends and leave the other passengers in headphone-wearing peace.