#OnThisDay, 2 Apr 1917, Jeanette Rankin is sworn in, becoming the first woman to sit in the US Congress.
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#OnThisDay, 1 April 1983, around 200 women dressed as teddy bears or Easter bunnies break into the Greenham Common airbase in the UK to stage a protest picnic against nuclear warfare. Greenham was due to house US nuclear missiles
A further 40,000 protestors, men and women, form a human chain linking #Greenham to #Aldermaston and Burghfield.
Women had established the peace camps at Greenham in 1981.
#OnThisDay, 1 Apr 1792, former spy Etta Palm-Aelders speaks to the revolutionary French parliament.
Her demands?
The right for women to be admitted to civilian and military positions.
The education of girls to be based on the same principles as those of boys.
That women could become adults at the age of 21, and could get divorced.
Her demands were refused.
Women have shaped history in every way—leaders, inventors, warriors, activists. Yet, they’ve often been erased. Who is one woman from history you wish more people knew about?
Did you get the sense that Women's History Month was a bit of a damp squib this year, with fewer people writing about and discussing the annual observance, which started in 1987? @19thnews discusses why that might have been the case: Trump's anti-DEI moves have killed or maimed some efforts to celebrate women's achievements, from an Ohio conference to Defense Department web pages.
https://flip.it/.HKAIr
#WomensHistoryMonth #WomensHistory #DEI #History @histodons #DiversityEquityInclusion #TrumpAdministration
The 19th · Did politics kill Women’s History Month?
Before the Nobel Prize, there was a young Grazia Deledda, a woman with a fire in her soul and a pen in her hand. A new film directed by Maria Grazia Perria now brings her early years to life, revealing the roots of her groundbreaking work.
#graziadeledda #cinema #movies #loveandglory #mustwatch #sardinia #italy #literature #womensrights #womenshistory #womenpower #womeninfilm
Officina ProgettiLove and GloryThe new cinematic project dedicated to the young Grazia Deledda has been presented to the press. Director Maria Grazia Perria describes it as follows: "The idea originated several years ago; I wanted to pay homage to one of the great women of the twentieth century. I didn't know Deledda's life…
#OnThisDay, 31 Mar 1988, Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.
“Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation."
#OnThisDay, 31 Mar 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, who was drafting the Declaration of Independence. He declined her suggestions.
#Hypatia of Alexandria is a saint of #Antinous for defending Hellenistic principles as Christians stoned her to death in 415 AD. Art: Camille Flammarion, "Hypatia's Observatory at Alexandria" (L'Astronomie Populaire) 1880 #astronomy #WomensHistory #philosopher 
#OnThisDay, 30 Mar 1982, Bertha Wilson was sworn in to the Canadian Supreme Court. She is the first woman appointed to sit on it.
When she had started at law school in 1955, she was reportedly advised to 'take up crocheting' instead.
Her 1988 ruling decriminalised abortion in Canada.
#OnThisDay, 29 Mar 1993, Catherine Callbeck is elected as the premier of Prince Edward Island, Canada, in the general election. She is the first woman to be elected by the public to a premiership in Canada.
Other women had previously held premierships through party leadership elections.
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Women have been playing baseball in the U.S. for 150 years, with the first professional team, the Dolly Vardens, being formed in 1867. @TheConversationUS takes a look at how girls were gradually funnelled towards softball — seen as more suitable for the “weaker” female body — and why a new era in women’s baseball may be about to begin.
https://theconversation.com/women-are-reclaiming-their-place-in-baseball-252590
The ConversationWomen are reclaiming their place in baseballMany Americans see baseball as a sport for men and softball as a sport for women. It wasn’t always this way in the US – and it isn’t that way in the rest of the world.
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The Massachusetts State House has one of the oldest public art collections in the country with more than 300 works — of which only 20 depict women. Here’s @gbhnews’s story on how Senate President Karen Spilka is trying to change that.
GBH · Busts of Abigail Adams, Elizabeth Freeman planned to diversify State House art
For women’s history month, we continue to celebrate our incredible leaders whose work has immeasurably bettered our communities and our country.
Thank you Rep. Lateefah Simon (CA-12) for your meaningful work!
#OnThisDay, 28 Mar 1900, Queen Yaa Asantewa leads an army of 5,000 to fight colonial Britain's attempts to rule the Asante region.
Read more: https://carvehername.org.uk/yaa-asantewaa/
As Leslie Stephen has demonstrated, to suppress one truth is to suppress all truth, for truth is a coherent whole.
Gertrude Kelly
ENTERTAINING BIOGRAPHY OF PIONEERING stunt performer and silent film action star Helen Gibson combines solid research on the early days of Hollywood with a breezy, chatty tone. B PLUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/daughter-of-daring-mallory-omeara/1144495393?ean=9781335007933
Barnes & NobleDaughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood's First Stuntwoman|HardcoverFrom LA Times bestselling author Mallory O'Meara, the story of America’s first professional stuntwoman, Helen Gibson, who rose to fame during a time when women ruled Hollywood.Helen Gibson was a woman willing to do anything to give audiences a...
Women's history, union work, educational ambitions, and more in a 1942 photo by Russell Lee in Creek County, OK, for the U.S. Farm Security Administration. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/4e906fe0-3ec5-0137-4dbb-05753e085b4b
It is time for our old political doctrines to give way to the new visions
Jeannette Rankin
#OnThisDay, 26 Mar 1974, Gaura Devi and 27 village women prevent the logging of trees in the village of Rini in the Himalayas. They confront armed men from the lumber company and hug the trees to stop them being felled.
https://carvehername.org.uk/women-fighting-deforestation-gaura-devi/
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