When 17y/o Belle Boyd killed a Union soldier, she wasn't sorry; he was accosting her mother. Instead, she learned how to dodge the law and spy for the #Confederacy in the #CivilWar. Belle was was arrested 6x, jailed 3x, and exiled 2x but lived to tell the tale. Read her story: tinyurl.com/bde9kbdr

A 1st century BCE Roman marble sculpture of four puppies asleep together, discovered in the House of the Faun in Pompeii, and now preserved at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. 🐾💕

Look at the women at NASA. They are the ones pushing the boundaries of science, solving problems most people can’t even understand, and carrying this country forward, while our politicians right now posture and stumble through talking points. And they are doing it all with joy.👇

OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE EARTHSET PHOTO FROM ARTEMIS II. IM SPEECHLESS.

"I grew up across the street from a public library, and it was the only place my mom would let me go on my own. It was my second home, and I read everything that I could get." ~ Tracy Chapman Chapman by Nicholas Albrecht #Booksky

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

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On this day in 1891, Ellen Martin went to the polls in Lombard, IL & demanded to vote. Martin noted that the town’s charter did not explicitly limit voting in town elections to men. The election judges reluctantly agreed with Martin, who reportedly became the 1st woman to vote in Illinois. #WeTheMen

If the world knows that the President of the United States is about to commit war crimes by bombing the infrastructure of another country, isn’t it imperative that he be prevented from doing so rather than simply watch it happen

BREAKING: Delta is suspending its special service desk for members of Congress until TSA is fully funded, per @ajc.com. Delta says members of Congress will now be treated like all other flying customers. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

The airport perks for Congress may be drying up, not a minute too soon

Delta Airlines suspends its special congressional service, while a Senate bill could end the line-skipping perk for members of Congress.

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This silver coin was likely struck in Syracuse in the 460s BC. Its depiction of a highly realistic octopus shows the incredible skill of the artist and the city’s close relationship with the sea. A mini-masterpiece. #AncientBlueSky 🏺

#ResistanceRoots #WomensHistoryMonth Alice Austen was born on this day in 1866 in Rosebank, N.Y. One of the first women photographers to work extensively outside a studio, her work documents a rapidly changing New York City and the intimate lives of Victorian women. /1

"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning" got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

Someone in NYC should do interviews with middle-school kids who take the subway to and from school every day, to see if they have any advice for Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy who can't seem to go a single day without pissing himself in fear over them.

Simone Leigh (born 1967), contemporary US artist from Chicago, in the studio working on her sculpture 'Brick House' #WomensArt

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! In celebration, here are my favorite stories of #RemarkableYoungWomen that were forgotten by history 👇 1/🧵 #WomensDay #WomeninHistory #WomeninSTEM #WomeninSTEAM #WomeninArt #Herstory #WomensHistoryMonth #WomensHistory

" I believe there are many who forget all the tragedy women face in Afghanistan, that is why I use my paintings as a mean to remind the people" - Shamsia Hassani Afghan Artist #InternationalWomensDay

In 1631, 17 y/o Princess Jahanara's mother died. Grieving, her father gave her interim rule of the Mughal Empire. She ruled until 1666 and her compassion, leadership, and diplomacy made her one of India's most beloved rulers. For her mother, her father built India's iconic Taj Mahal. #WomensDay2026

For International Women's Day. Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to earn an MD, in New York in 1849. She was soon followed by others. mycandles.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-...

The First Woman Doctors: Elizabeth Blackwell and her Circle

Women have always been involved in health care, as domestic healers and midwives. In the 19th century, they began a quest to gain qualificat...

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Happy #InternationalWomensDay! In celebration, here are my favorite stories of #RemarkableYoungWomen that were forgotten by history 👇 1/🧵 #WomensDay #WomeninHistory #WomeninSTEM #WomeninSTEAM #WomeninArt #Herstory #WomensHistoryMonth #WomensHistory

"I am not generally interested in considering women's rights in relation to equality with men, or in a competition with men, but rather within their own rights" -Shirin Neshat Iranian artist #InternationalWomensDay

Though she never attended college, in 1865 Maria become a professor at Vassar College, an all-women’s school, to teach astronomy and direct the observatory. Under her, the astronomy department grew even larger than Harvard’s, creating a whole generation of female scientists. #WomeninSTEM #Herstory

To celebrate #WomensHistoryMonth, each day I'm sharing a story from my book on #RemarkableYoungWomen Maria Mitchell observed her first solar eclipse when she was 12. By the time she was 14, she was making calculation tables for sailors in Nantucket to navigate using the stars.

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Advocated for Intersectional Feminism – in the 19th Century thestoryexchange.org/frances-elle... She toured the U.S. giving lectures and speeches promoting the equal rights of African-Americans, but also African-American women. #bwhm

She Advocated for Intersectional Feminism – in the 19th Century

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an abolitionist, suffragist and prolific writer.

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To celebrate #WomensHistoryMonth, each day I'm sharing a story from my book on #RemarkableYoungWomen Maria Mitchell observed her first solar eclipse when she was 12. By the time she was 14, she was making calculation tables for sailors in Nantucket to navigate using the stars.

📖 🔊We have your weekend reading (and listening)! The new season of our podcast is accompanied by a series of pieces published in partnership with KCET. Today's is by Erika Bsumek at UT Austin about the work of botanist and suffragist Ellen Powell Thompson. www.pbssocal.org/ellen-powell...

Ellen Powell Thompson: How Women’s Suffrage Benefitted from the Work of a Botanist in the Nineteenth-Century American West

Ellen Powell Thompson’s life illustrates how environmental exploration and women’s reform were deeply interconnected.

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To celebrate #WomensHistoryMonth, each day I'm sharing a story from my book on #RemarkableYoungWomen Meet Yekaterina Dashkova, the Russian teenage princess who helped lead the coup that ousted an emperor and put Catherine the Great on the throne. 1/🧵