12/29/1871 — b. Ellen Hørup, Danish journalist. Early female international foreign policy journalist; main focus peace work. Wrote/spoke Danish, English, Italian, German, Russian and French well; 600+ feature articles and editorials, 300+ articles #womenshistory #womenwriters #PolSky #BookSky #BOTD

12/28/1894 — b. Burnita Shelton Matthews, American jurist, lawyer, suffragist, feminist. The first woman appointed to serve on a U.S. district court (1949). Fought for suffrage, jury service + #womensrights. Counsel/campaigner Natl Woman’s Party; ERA supporter #womenshistory #gov #law #PolSky #BOTD

12/27/1821 — b. Jane Francesca Agnes Wilde (Lady Wilde), Irish poet, author, scholar, revolutionary, feminist. Pseudonym “Speranza”; penned anti-British writings + poetry focusing on pro-Irish independence. The mother of poet,playwright Oscar Wilde #womenshistory #womenwriters #BookSky #poetry #BOTD

12/27/1797 — b. Manuela Sáenz, Ecuadorian freedom fighter, national heroine, #womensrights advocate.A feminist symbol of the 19th c. wars of independence; SouthAmerican revolutionary hero who collected/distributed info. Companion of S.A. liberator Simón Bolívar #womenshistory #ReSister #PolSky #BOTD

Learn more about the surveillance tech that law enforcement routinely deploy in our communities with our Street Level Surveillance site. sls.eff.org/

12/26/1892 — b. Amy Gordon Hamilton, American social work educator, relief admin, intl social welfare advisor, author. Faculty/assoc dean, NY Sch of Social Work + prolific contributor to social work literature, noted for “The Theory & Practice of Social Case Work” (1940) #womenshistory #PolSky #BOTD

12/23/1867 — b. Sarah Breedlove Walker (Madam C.J. Walker), American inventor, businesswoman, philanthropist, activist. The first Af-Am millionaire, and the first woman in the U.S. to become a self-made millionaire. Benefactor, NAACP Anti-lynching campaign #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #woc #inventors

12/22/1839 — b. Josephine Brawley Hughes, American pioneer, Western writer, social activist, temperance leader. The “Mother of Methodism”; #womensrights advocate in the U.S. West; co-founder, Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the wmn’s suffrage mvmnt in Arizona #womenshistory #womenwriters #OTD

12/21/1866 — b. Maud Gonne, Irish revolutionary, patriot, activist, suffragette, feminist, journalist. Irish nationalist; co-founder, Sinn Fein. Founder/pres, Irish nationalist group, The Daughters of Ireland(1900). Co-founder,Wmns Prisoners Defence League(‘22) #womenshistory #ReSister #PolSky #OTD

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and a hopeful New Year to all who show up, speak out, and help protect democracy! Your courage matters more than you know. Thank you for standing when it would be easier to stay silent! Be safe and all the best in the New Year🎄🫶🎄 #DefendersOfDemocracy

12/19/1836 — b. Maria Louise Sanford, American educator, orator, #womensrights champion.Early wmn college professor, Swarthmore Coll(1871). Noted innovative teaching methods; pioneered concept of adult #edu; founder of parent-teacher orgs. 1000+ patriotic speeches #womenshistory #EDUSky #AcademicSky

12/18/1937 — b. Karen DeCrow, American lawyer, author, feminist, activist. Wrote the landmark work addressing the lack of #womensrights in the legal system, “Sexist Justice: How Legal Sexism Affects You” (1973). President, National Org for Women (1974-77) #womenshistory #law #PolSky #BookSky #LawSky

Ohio Statehouse monument to honor women, suffrage movement Ohio will unveil the Women's Monument in 2026 on the Statehouse grounds across from the Ohio Theatre by Jessie Balmert www.dispatch.com/story/news/p...

12/18/1878 — b. Edna Gellhorn, American suffrage + civic leader, social reformer. Co-founder + first VP, League of Women Voters (1920). A civic leader in St. Louis; advocate for world unity through the UN + the League of Nations. The third wife of Ernest Hemingway #womenshistory #womensrights #BOTD

12/17/1993 — Judith Rodin, American philanthropist, is named the 7th president of University of Pennsylvania. The first woman to lead an #IvyLeague institution (1994-04). Previously held posts at Yale; president, Rockefeller Foundation (2005-17) #womenshistory #IvySky #HigherEd #EduSky #AcademicSky

On this day in 1903, a Czech Jewish woman was born. On the 7 May 1942 she was deported to Theresienstadt with her husband and two children (12 & 10) and then on the 9 May 1942 to Sobibór where she and her children perished. Her name was Olga Löwyová Support @sobibor.org

12/17/1853 — b. Harriet Taylor Upton, American author, suffragist, political activist. Proponent of #womenshistory; believed historians had ignored women’s importance! The first woman vice chair of the #RNC; pres, #Ohio Woman’s Suffrage Org(1899-08, 1911-20) #womenwriters #womensrights #PolSky #BOTD

12/16/1873 — b. Harriet Burton Laidlaw, American suffragist, orator. Chair of Women’s Pro-League Council (1921), and founder of the League of Nations Non-Partisan Assn (1922). Leader of the American Assn for the UnitedNations; campaigner for U.S. Rep,JeannetteRankin #womenshistory #womensrights #gov

Dutch and Flemish Women Artists—A Major Exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts artherstory.net/dutch-and-fl...

12/15/1861 — b. Vida Dutton Scudder, American professor, scholar, author, reformer. English literature professor at Wellesley College, Mass (40+ yrs); co-organizer of the Women’s Trade Union League; and a welfare reformer in the social gospel movement #womenshistory #AcademicSky #highered #edu #BOTD

12/14/1916 — b. Shirley Jackson, American author. Novelist, short-story writer; one of the most important and influential authors of the 20th c. Known for “The Lottery” (1948) + “Haunting of Hill House” (1959), made into the HLWD movie “The Haunting” (‘63) #womenshistory #womenwriters #BookSky #BOTD

Dorothea Palmer said "A woman should be the master of her own body." She worked to promote birth control in Canada. She was arrested, charged and put on trial. Her trial, the Eastview Birth Control Trial, became a landmark case in Canada. This is her story. 🧵 1/10

12/12/1923 — b. Marion Moos, American feminist icon, activist, organizer. Feminist and Spokane, Washington activist who opened that city’s first and only feminist bookstore. The founder of the local chapter of the National Organization for Women #womenshistory #feminism #BookSky #bookstores #BOTD

12/8/1542 — b. Mary Stuart (Mary Queen of Scots), Queen of Scotland and Queen consort of France. In a plot to murder her rival cousin Queen Elizabeth I, Mary was beheaded for treason at Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire, England on February 8, 1587 #womenshistory #Royals #RoyalSky #BOTD

12/7/1815 — b. Elizabeth Hussey Whittier, American poet, abolitionist, pacifist, literary figure. Quaker; the founder of Female Anti-Slavery Society, Boston, Massachusetts (1833), mobbed (1835). Sister + collaborator of poet John Greenleaf Whittier #womenshistory #womenwriters #poetry #BookSky #BOTD

12/7/1941 — First Lt. Annie G. Fox, head nurse at Hickam Field Air Force Base in Honolulu, leads hospital response during #PearlHarbor bombing.First wmn honored w/PurpleHeart for her #military fortitude during the attack #PearlHarbor84 #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #WWII #MedSky #NurseSky #HistNursing

Maggie L. Walker installed the St. Francis #235 Circle of the Independent Order of St. Luke in Blacksburg in Aug 1902—just a month after Virginia’s voter-suppression laws. @MaggieWalkerNPS reminds us how important this local history is. Our nonprofit is working to bring it forward.

12/7/1941 — Women Firefighters at Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii #PearlHarbor #PearlHarbor84 #womenshistory #firefghters #WWII #PearlHarborRemembranceDay #USSArizona #NeverForget #HonorAndRemember

12/1/1900 — b. Martha Hill, American dance educator. Pioneer instructor + influential promoter of modern dance. Founder, American Dance Fest + dance depts at Bennington + Juilliard. Est graduate program at NYU, instructor(1930-51); first director of #dance at Juilliard (1951-85) #womenshistory #BOTD

11/30/1924 — b. Shirley Chisholm, American #gov official, social activist, professor. U.S. Rep NY-D (1968-82). The first African American congresswoman, and the first black female candidate for the Democratic Presidential Nomination (1972) #womenshistory #woc #law #BlackHistory #ReSisters #BOTD

EFF’s Adam Schwartz joined @KPFA.org's UpFront to discuss our lawsuit against San Jose for violating people’s constitutional rights by searching a year’s worth of automated license plate reader data without warrants. kpfa.org/episode/upf...

11/29/1876 — b. Nellie Tayloe Ross, American #gov official, popular effective speaker. The first woman elected governor of a U.S. state, 14th Governor of Wyoming (1925-27). Active in the DNC; the first female director of the U.S. Mint(1933-53) #womenshistory #law #economy #finance #WomenInSTEM #BOTD

11/29/1832 — b. Louisa May Alcott, American author, reformer, abolitionist. She published 30+ books and collections of stories; wrote the children’s classic ‘Little Women’ (1869) which was her first bestseller. A strong supporter of women’s issues #womenshistory #womenwriters #BookSky #kidlit #BOTD

11/28/1865 — b. Alice Ames Winter, American clubwoman, educator, author, orator. Leader, General Federation of Women’s Clubs (1914), president (1920). Co-founder, Women’s Joint Congressional Committee (1920), streamlined women’s groups common legislative goals #womenshistory #gov #law #policy #BOTD

11/27/1957 — Dorothy Height, American administrator, educator, YMCA official, and civil rights and women’s rights activist, is elected the president of the National Council of Negro Women #womenshistory #womensrights #civilrights #BlackHistory #AfAmHistory #woc #ReSisters #TDIH

Happy Thanksgiving from your local civil rights protectors 🫶🦃🫶🦃

11/27/1850 — b. Helene von Mülinen, Swiss women’s rights leader, feminist. Prominent #womensmovement leader at the turn of the 20th century + organizer, Swiss woman suffrage movement. Founder, Swiss Confederation, Bund Schweizerischer Frauenvereine(1900) #womenshistory #womensrights #ReSister #BOTD

11/26/1924 — Eglantyne Jebb’s Geneva 'Declaration of the Rights of the Child' is adopted by League of Nations.The document declares the rights of children + asserts that it is the duty of the international community to place these #humanrights at the forefront of planning #womenshistory #IDEVAW #OTD

Read FiLiA's Male Violence against Women & Girls Global Lead, Sally Jackson's blog on why feminists mark the UN day for the elimination of #VAWG & why our activism can never be limited to #16days ✊ 🔗 www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/... #16DaysOfActivism #IDEVAW #IDEVAW2025 #NoExcuse

11/26/1792 — b. Sarah Grimké, American abolitionist, women’s rights advocate, author. Early feminist; wrote, lectured on emancipation and women’s rights. “Equality of the Sexes and The Condition of Women” (1838) was an early writing advocating #womensrights in the U.S. #womenshistory #ReSister #BOTD

11/25/1999 — UN General Assembly passes resolution designating Nov 25th as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women #IDEVAW honoring the Mirabal sisters who were murdered for their political activism(11/25/1960,Dominican Republic) #womenshistory #womensrights #VAWG #16days

As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.

11/25/1936 — b. Trisha Brown, American avant-garde + postmodernist choreographer + dancer. Explored pure movement; co-founder of the experimental Judson Dance Theater (1962). Co-founder, Grand Union (1970-76); founder of the all-wmn Trisha Brown Dance Co (1970) #womenshistory #dance #DanceSky #BOTD

Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old

11/24/1875 — b. Lola Maverick Lloyd, American author, pacifist, suffragist, feminist, social + political activist. Founder of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (1915) and the Women’s Peace Party (1915) #womenshistory #WILPF #Peace #Organize #BOTD #MassBlackOut #boycott #strike

11/24-25/1863 — Union hospital administrator, Mother Bickerdyke, is the only wmn to nurse wounded soldiers at the battle of Lookout Mountain + Missionary Ridge,TN during the #CivilWar. Est 300 field hosps; later an advocate for vets #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #MedSky #NurseSky #HistMed #HistNursing

11/23/1882 — b. Helen Rogers Reid, American newspaper publisher, advertising executive. A key figure of one of the world’s top newspapers, the ‘New York Herald Tribune.’ Ad director (1918), vp (1922-47), president (1947-52), board chair (1953-68) #womenshistory #newspaper #leadership #AdSky #BOTD

11/22/1909 — The "Uprising of the Twenty Thousand” is a turning point for #womensrights + #labor #union; NYC shirtwaist workers #strike starts over wages+working conditions;within a day approx 20,000 wmn garment workers walk off their factory jobs #womenshistory #generalstrike #MassBlackout #boycott

Mario Savio www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsO_... #Unite and #GeneralStrike - the last peaceful #Resistance before violent #Revolution becomes inevitable

Happy birthday CWHF Indictee Dr. Carolyn Mazure, a groundbreaking leader in women’s health. Learn about her at https://www.cwhf.org/carolyn-m-mazure #WomensHealth #GenderEquity #CWHF #HappyBirthdayDrMazure #InspiringWomen #MedicalEquality #WomenInMedicine #HealthResearch #CelebrateWomen ​