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JUDY CHICAGO: The Dinner Party 1982

January 12, 2022
This featured plate is titled “Sacajawea.” The Dinner Party is an installation artwork by feminist artist Judy Chicago. Widely regarded as the first epic feminist artwork, it functions as a symbo…

JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE – Meet the Team

December 14, 2021
Dr. Heidi B. Hammel is an Interdisciplinary Scientist on the James Webb Telescope Project, and her focus is on Webb’s theme “Planetary Systems and the Origins of Life.”

Biography of Anna Julia Cooper

December 9, 2021
in Douglass Day 2022 Anna Julia Cooper (1858 – 1964) was a visionary black feminist leader, educator, intellectual, and activist. Born into slavery in 1858, she became the fourth African American…

TELL THEM WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED HERE…

December 7, 2021
in DailyGood from the Beshara Magazine Over the past five years or so, there has been an emerging awareness of a body of work that arose during the Second World War. Fragments of it have been kno…

The River by Coco

November 24, 2021
      ONE VOICE LGBTQ CHOIR in Minneapolis sings “The River” by Coco Love Alcorn Offered by Debbie Nordeen and Zoe Nicholie

Louise Erdrich, Native American Author

November 8, 2021
Postmodern Champion of Her Indigenous American Heritage Updated November 26, 2019

Women Orchestral Conductors in America: The Struggle for Acceptance—An Historical View from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

October 17, 2021
By Shelley M. Jagow Orchestral conducting has been the latest door of opportunity to open for women in the field of music.

UNSPINNING THE SPIN

October 12, 2021
Unspinning the Spin is a guide on the background, current uses, accuracy, nonbiased alternatives, and best practices for choosing and de-coding commonly used words and phrases. at The Women’s Me…

Dolores Huerta: An American Latino Labor Leader and Civil Rights Activist by Pramod Sukumaran

September 22, 2021
by Pramod Sukumaran Dolores Huerta taught us sí se puede—yes we can. This was Huerta’s rallying cry as she inspired Latino farm workers to demand fair wages and better working condit…

Ph.D. candidate named Ruth Bader Ginsburg Predoctoral Fellow

September 16, 2021
By Emma Rothberg June 9, 2021 The National Women’s History Museum has named Emma Rothberg, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History, as an inaugural U.S. Supreme Court Ru…

The Trailblazing Women of Stand-Up Comedy

September 16, 2021
By Mariana Brandman The story of the female pioneers of American stand-up comedy often begins and ends with icons Phyllis Diller and Joan Rivers.

Who Was Pauli Murray?

September 16, 2021
On a recent episode of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick discussed the legacy of Pauli Murray—a Black, non-binary, queer, feminist, civil rights pioneer who was also a poet, a teacher, a lawyer and legal…