🌟Today's #WomensHistoryMonth trailblazer spotlight🌟:
Sojourner Truth (1797-1883)
👉🏿 African-American abolitionist & activist
👉🏾 became the first black woman to win a legal case to recover her enslaved son
#Inspiration #Legacy #EmpowerWomen #HistoryMakers #HerStory
#Barbie #Mattel #WomensHistoryMonth #InternationalWomensDay [March 8]
Helen Mirren, Kylie Minogue, Shania Twain, Viola Davis, Shonda Rhimes and many other women honored.
Mattel reveals Barbie’s new role model dolls in honour of Women’s History Month | The Independent
"Dolls have been unveiled in honour of Women’s History Month and Barbie’s birthday."
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/barbie-new-role-model-dolls-b2508257.html
#OnThisDay, 13 Mar 1990, Ertha Pascal-Trouillot becomes the provisional president of Haiti, the first woman to hold the role.
She stabilised the country for long enough for it to hold a free and fair election.
“I accepted the position in the name of Haitian women. I did it as a service to my country. I did it with love and determination.”
#WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #CaribbeanHistory #Histodons #History
In the late 1800s, the Right often portrayed women as cats and kittens in their propaganda to show how "absurd" it would be for us to have the same rights as men, leading to a resurgence of the "crazy cat lady" trope.
The Suffragettes reclaimed this idea, seeing cats as savvy and independent.
Just a reminder that every time they take away our rights, the first step is to dehumanize us in their language and in their tropes. The modern Right's constant portrayal of us as animals and objects is no accident. It's the same old playbook.
Happy #womenshistorymonth
"At a time when Black people faced legalized discrimination and inequities in healthcare systems across the nation, Dr. Lula Belle Stewart-Robinson treated Black children in her home on #Detroit’s west side."
#WomensHistoryMonth #blackhistorymonth
https://www.bridgedetroit.com/detroit-home-of-groundbreaking-black-doctor-closer-to-historic-status/
#InternationalWomensDay
#WomensHistoryMonth
There is a woman I learned of here on Mastodon a few months ago named #SarahEmmaEdmonds whose story is absolutely AMAZING!
She dressed up as a man to be in the Union Army. She was soldier, a spy, a double agent spy against the Confederate Army, and an army nurse. She even went as far as to darken her skin with silver nitrate to go undercover into Confederate territory disguised as a male slave.
"When a Union agent was hanged for spying, she volunteered to take his place. Though interviewed by a panel of high-ranking officers for the dangerous work, she still managed to conceal her true sex. Ever resourceful, she shaved her head, blackened her skin with silver nitrate, donned a plantation suit and a curly black wig, and passed into the Confederate camp at Yorktown as a slave answering to the name 'Cuff'."
At age 48, decades after her service, she moved to Texas and lived in LaPorte. Eight years later she passed away, was buried with military honors and is the only #woman buried in the Grand Army of the Republic section of Washington Cemetery in #Houston, Texas.
You can read more about her story at the below article.
https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/women/soldier-girl-the-emma-edmonds-story
New work for Marvel Studios! HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY! This was a dream gig I was incredibly honored to draw out since I grew up watching the 90s X-MEN cartoon ❤️❤️❤️
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#illustration #InternationalWomensDay #womenshistorymonth #marvel #superheroes #comics #art
Today In Labor History March 27, 1904: The authorities kicked Mother Jones out of Colorado for “stirring-up” striking coal miners. Earlier in March, the authorities deported 60 striking miners from Colorado. In June, they arrested 22 in Telluride. For nearly 2 years, strikers, led by the Western Federation of Miners, were violently attacked by Pinkerton and Baldwin-Felts detectives. 33 strikers were killed. At least two scholars have said “There is no episode in American labor history in which violence was as systematically used by employers as in the Colorado labor war of 1903 and 1904.”
#workingclass #LaborHistory #colorado #union #strike #mining #motherjones #WorkplaceViolence #scabs #coal #pinkertons #colorado #minewars #wfm #WesternFederationOfMiners #womenshistorymonth
A German guard once asked O'Sullivan what was in her suitcase. She laughed. “A wireless, of course!”.
Very early #OnThisDay, 23 Mar 1944 , Maureen 'Paddy' O'Sullivan parachutes into occupied France to be a radio operator for the British Special Operations Executive.
The SOE supported the French Resistance. Radio operators were at the greatest risk of capture as their position could be triangulated. O’Sullivan was never captured.
Day 16 of Women's History Month 2025
Judith Lang Zaimont
https://www.judithzaimont.com/
#WomensHistoryMonth
@womencomposers
Day 1 of Women's History Month 2025
Hélène Vogelsinger
https://helene.vogelsinger.fr/
#WomensHistoryMonth
@womencomposers
This #WomensHistoryMonth we once again acknowledge and reckon with Anarcha, Lucy and Betsey, the Mothers of Gynaecology. These enslaved Black women, along with nine other women whose names have been erased, were subjected to human experimentation without anaesthesia. We say their names.
Join me Tuesday @ 6pm EST/5pm CST when #LaEsoterica honors #WomensHistoryMonth. Playlist available here (https://tinyurl.com/mpk6czy3)
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#OnThisDay, 19 March 1944, Yvonne Baseden parachutes into Nazi-occupied France as a Special Operations Executive radio operator. The British SOE supported the French resistance. Radio operators ran the greatest risk of discovery as their position could be triangulated when they were transmitting.
Baseden was captured and sent to Ravensbrück.
She was the subject of the first regular UK edition of This Is Your Life in 1955.
#WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #History #WorldWar2 #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 25 Mar 1941, the first WRNS arrive at Bletchley Park in the UK. They operate the Bombe machines used for decoding German Enigma machine messages. Their work helps shorten World War 2.
At its peak, 75% of the workforce at Bletchley were women.
#WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHistory #WorldWar2 #History #BletchleyPark #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 21 Mar 1945, Hannie Schaft, an active member of the Dutch resistance known as "the girl with the red hair", was arrested at a German checkpoint in Haarlem.
She was later executed, allegedly saying "I shoot better" after the first attempt to shoot her missed.
#WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WW2 #DutchHistory #Histodons
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The Dante Map: Mary Hensman’s Masterpiece
Posted by: Cynthia Smith
"In celebration of Women’s History Month, I am featuring the map below. It was designed by the 19th century scholar and mapmaker Mary Hensman. The map is a detailed guide to the places that the Italian poet Dante Alighieri visited as well as the locations mentioned in his literary works."
https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2026/03/the-dante-map-mary-hensmans-masterpiece/
Books by Dante at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Dante+Alighieri
9 Women Who Were Written Out of History Books
From female scientists whose work was credited to men to ancient high priestesses, these women changed history—but were also often overlooked by it.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/history/women-who-were-written-out-of-history-books?utm_source=RSS
Fanny Mendelssohn
#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.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #CanadianHistory #Histodons
