Researchers at UCLA and the Barcelona Institute for Global Health projected that the continuing absence of USAID funding will cause 4.5 million child deaths under the age of five by the year 2030 Via The Lancet

Elizabeth Freeman has a statue inside the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC. And a newer statue in Sheffield Massachusetts. (Free article - no subscription necessary) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Elizabeth Freeman has a statue inside the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC. And a newer statue in Sheffield Massachusetts. (Free article - no subscription necessary) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

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Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum Launches Augmented-Reality Experience on National Mall Celebrating Five Trailblazers Access the Experience Now at unhidden-heroines.com www.si.edu/newsdesk/rel...

I was hoping CBS Sunday Morning would be spared the Ellison corruption but making the last episode all about Vance - my hopes were dashed.

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA Dr Lowitja O'Donoghue immortalised with riverside statue Trailblazing leader the first of six prominent Aboriginal South Australians to receive honour. www.weare.sa.gov.au/news/dr-lowi...

AUSTRALIA www.latrobe.edu.au/research/res...

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New @privateeyenews.bsky.social.

Portsmouth, New Hampshire new mural of Ona Judge www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/o...

This is one of my favorites from the Colbert show. youtu.be/aJb_zJbJ7FI?...

This week Historians At The Movies is singing about the history of suffrage in America. Join us on PBS this Sunday, May 24 at 8pm eastern for SUFFS. If you like a little different side of history, then share this post and keep #HATM growing. See ya there.

When @herberthistory.bsky.social agreed to do SUFFS I put out the call & suffrage historians of Bsky assembled Join me Sunday w/ @kmarino1.bsky.social @lmacthompson1.bsky.social @wendylrouse.bsky.social @laurarprieto.bsky.social @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social @foodandarchives.bsky.social #HATM 🗃️

This painting by African-American painter #LauraWheelingWaring of the Harlem Renaissance, 'Girl in Pink Dress' 1927, is the inspiration for #AngelaBassett's gown at the #MetGala. Hung at #TheMet in 2024 for the Harlem Renaissance exhibition.

I'm giving my women's history walking tour - Downtown Dames: Historic Women Celebrated in Public Spaces as part of the The Municipal Art Society of New York's Jane's Walk weekend. Sign up and register at Friday 01 May 1pm www.mas.org/events/downt... Sunday 03 May 1pm www.mas.org/events/downt...

London, England The national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II will feature a statue of the monarch as a young woman in her Garter robes on The Mall. www.gazetteherald.co.uk/news/nationa...

Washingon DC - National Women's Suffrage Monument "For the first time in our Nation’s history, Americans are invited to shape the vision for a new monument on the National Mall from the ground up. Contribute your ideas today and inspire the future design" womensmonument.org/monumental-i...

Chichester, England Three blue plaques recognising overlooked women from Chichester's past are being unveiled Chichester City Council approved the plaques for a 17th Century Quaker Margery Wilkinson, 18th Century poet Charlotte Smith and Queen Elizabeth I. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Real-Life ‘Rosie the Riveter’ Got 500 Cards After Turning 100 and Raised Thousands for First-of-Its-Kind Monument for the National Mall in Washington DC people.com/real-life-ro...

For the first time, the Ohio Statehouse will include a permanent monument honoring the different eras of women who shaped Ohio and the United States. www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

Dublin, Ireland Clodagh Finn: Is another statue the best way to honour our revolutionary women? How do you rectify the decades-long sin of omission that have been perpetrated against women of the revolutionary period from early 1900s and far beyond? www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Realizing that some of my inexplicable sadness about the Artemis II stuff is that it feels like a trans-dimensional communication from an America that took a different path and chose joy instead of fear and hate.

The variety of German bees before the Industrial Revolution (187, top) vs after the introduction of pesticides (43, bottom), DHM

Public References to Cesar Chavez Are Being Removed Across the U.S. The removals followed a New York Times investigation that revealed Chavez sexually abused women and girls. (gift article - no subscription needed) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/u...

A new NYC walking tour is telling the stories of the city’s most badass women She Shapes History is spotlighting the women who impacted politics, civil rights and the arts in New York City. www.timeout.com/newyork/news...

DENMARK The Statues Were Mostly Men or Nude Women. So These Knitters Got to Work. Women in Denmark, dismayed by unequal representation in public art, stitched together a protest campaign. (Gift article - no subscription needed) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/a...

DENMARK The Statues Were Mostly Men or Nude Women. So These Knitters Got to Work. Women in Denmark, dismayed by unequal representation in public art, stitched together a protest campaign. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/a...

DENMARK The first money is now being allocated for STATUES OF OVERLOOKED WOMEN in urban spaces. Danish Arts Fund will allocate a million to co-finance new statues. kum.dk/aktuelt/nyhe...

**New** Women's History Walking Tour of New York City by She Shapes History and Wanderful www.eventbrite.com/e/badass-wom...

I hate Olympic Games withdrawal. For two weeks they share stories and you can watch competitions in sports that are new to you (or you just don't remember them from 4 years ago.) The best original programming. I hate Olympic withdrawal.

Visiting for the #Olympics - there are 2 recently installed statues of historic women in Milan Left - Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso writer & political activist maps.app.goo.gl/hDiSneYNBQ1t... Right - Margherita Hack astrophysicist maps.app.goo.gl/xFGUJ6ENipFA...

We see so much content but so little art that when it breaks through it's like breathing again.

only Stephen Colbert and his current show can create this kind of magic www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l2R... we will so miss it when it is gone

A thread by an expert

Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:

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Book Talk 15 January New York City Walk Her Way New York City: A Walking Guide to Women’s History joined by co-author Jana Mader www.villagepreservation.org/event/walk-h...

Overlooked No More: Pamela Colman Smith, Artist Behind a Famous Tarot Deck (free article link - no subscription needed) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/o...

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

I'm watching Ken Burns #AmericanRevolutionPBS and we really have to thank John Singleton Copley for painting all the prominent colonists in Boston like Mercy Otis Warren and John Hancock Remember this leaves @PBS on January 2, the holidays are a good time to play catch up.

‘Women are dynamite’: Dorset unveils Sylvia Townsend Warner statue www.iask.ca/news/25a14c7...

December 14, 1pm, 12 South Street, Dorchester, England Dorset to unveil statue of feminist writer and LGBTQ+ pioneer – and a cat Tribute to Sylvia Townsend Warner follows campaign to nominate overlooked women www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

For all the setbacks for the world’s women in 2025, the leaders and vanguards on the 2025 Forbes Power Women list stood as examples of resilience in turbulent times.

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Los Angeles, California At MOCA Geffen and The Brick, “Monuments” Probes the Line Between History and Propaganda What once stood as a symbol of valor now becomes evidence of a national reckoning with the stories America tells about itself. observer.com/2025/10/art-...

Where are all the statues of women in Edinburgh, Scotland? edinburghtourist.co.uk/questions/wh...

Rochester, Minnesota Statue honoring Amelia Witherstine unveiled in Central Park www.kimt.com/news/statue-...

Arlington, Virginia The Southern US county honouring its dark past www.bbc.com/travel/artic...