5/21/1836 — b. Anna Brackett, American educator, author, translator, #feminist. Works on pedagogy; wrote + lectured on wmn’s right to equal #edu + employment. Published “The Education of American Girls” (1874); NY editor, ‘New England Journal of Education’ #womenshistory #womensrights #EduSky #labor

“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.” #OnThisDay, 19 May 1952, Lillian Hellman writes to the House of UnAmerican Activities refusing to testify against others. #HollywoodHistory #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️ 1/2

Dr. Hawa Abdi was born 79 years ago today. For decades, in the face of civil war, famine, drought, and threats of sectarian violence, she held together and ran the Somali hospital that served as a place of refuge for thousands. tinyurl.com/2bk6ck4x #WomenInSTEM #MedSky #WomensHistory ⚕️

As the far right promote hate, read about Sophie Scholl: damesnet.com?p=11546 ‘Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go.. What does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?’ @hopenothate.org.uk @admirablewomen.bsky.social @fbpech.bsky.social

'Patriarchy is a virus that lives deep in the body politic.' Happy Birthday to Baroness Kennedy, KC, broadcaster & advocate for women's & human rights @carvehername.bsky.social @admirablewomen.bsky.social @womeninlaw.bsky.social #equality #justice @lawsocialchange.bsky.social

90th birthday greetings to Glenda Jackson: actress and politician. Winner of Academy Awards, Tony Award, Primetime Emmy Awards. Labour Party MP, Transport minister @admirablewomen.bsky.social @feministory.bsky.social @womenintheatrelab.bsky.social @carvehername.bsky.social @womeninfilms.bsky.social

#OTD in 1935, Audrey Wurdemann won the #Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her 1934 collection of poems titled "Bright Ambush." She is the youngest person to win the #poetry Pulitzer. She was 24. #litsky #booksky #skybrarian

This stinks, but who's surprised? @democracydocket.com @goodlawproject.org @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @carolemason.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

It's International #DanceDay & Russian prima ballerina🩰Anna Pavlova is one of the most famous/influential dancers in history. A principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet & the Ballets Russes, she was the first ballerina w/her own tour company, bringing #ballet to audiences globally. #DanceSky

So many April 29 #WomenInSTEM birthdays! They include South African botanist Maria Wilman (1867), Japanese physician Yoshioka Yayoi (1871), physicist Marietta Blau (1894), AND mathematician Marian Pour-El (1928)! #WomensHistory #MathSky #PhysicsSky #PlantSky #MedSky

Claire Bretécher (1940-2020), French cartoonist, known particularly for her portrayals of women #WomensArt #Wednesday

If you want Sadiq Khan to block Palantir from using all the Police cameras in the UK to spy on you for Donald Trump. RT

Exactly what damesnet.com has been saying for some time! @admirablewomen.bsky.social @simonwhale.bsky.social @carolemason.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @fbpech.bsky.social @womenwarriors.com @womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womenwritersnet.bsky.social

4/23/1858 — b. Pandita Ramabai, Indian scholar, educator, author, social reformer. Champion of Indian wmn’s issues; pioneer of edu for women+girls. The first woman in India to earn the titles of pandita + sarasvati #womenshistory #womensrights #AcademicSky #EduSky #WriterSky #womenwriters #HigherEd

4/22/1766 — b. Germaine de Staël, French author, critic, philosopher, #feminist, intellectual. A woman of letters; wrote novels, plays, political essays + history. Major literary contributor to the theories of Romanticism; early #womensrights champion #womenshistory #womenwriters #WriterSky #PolSky

Saluting the magnificent 6 women prize winners of this key prize @admirablewomen.bsky.social @carvehername.bsky.social @wisarchive.bsky.social @womenenabled.bsky.social @carolemason.bsky.social @unep.org www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Remembring Cecilia Glaisher #BOTD 1828: photographer, artist, illustrator, print-maker, working in the 1850s world of Victorian science and natural history @admirablewomen.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womeninphotography.bsky.social @womenart.bsky.social @womeninstem.bsky.social

Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' illustrations, 1959 by Finnish artist and Moomins creator Tove Jansson #WomensArt

Illiberalism is not Inevitable www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Oh happy day! #democracy @carolemason.bsky.social @emwandsworthmerton.bsky.social @saloneurope.bsky.social

'Liberty is the equal right and heritage of every child of man, without distinction of race, colour or sex': Emily Hobhouse #BOTD 1860, humanitarian, pacifist, defied the British Empire to expose horrors of concentration camps during Anglo-Boer War @womenwarriors.com @admirablewomen.bsky.social

4/7/1848 — New York state passes the 'Married Women’s Property Act of 1848.' Previously, a woman lost the right to control property which was hers before marriage + other #womensrights. The first comprehensive U.S. property #law. www.womenshistory.org/resources/pr... #womenshistory #PolSky #LawSky

#OnThisDay, 7 Apr 1141, Matilda is legally recognised as ruler of England in her own right. Her coronation never happens. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EnglishHistory #AnarchyInTheUK 🗃️ 1/2

Anne Eunson knitted a fence with twine based on a Shetland lace pattern, installed at the Shetland Textile Museum, Lerwick #womensart

@fbpech.bsky.social @emwandsworthmerton.bsky.social @carolemason.bsky.social @saloneurope.bsky.social

Celebrating the birthday of Wangari Maathai #BOTD 1940: Kenyan politician, environmental activist awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize for Peace - 1st Black African woman to win a Nobel Prize @jwomenshistory.bsky.social @admirablewomen.bsky.social @carvehername.bsky.social @womeninpoliticsss.bsky.social

Neurologist Nathalie Zylberlast-Zand was born 143 years ago today. She was one of the key early figures in Polish neurology, working alongside Edward Flatau, publishing some 100 works on meningitis and myeloid leukemia before dying in a Nazi concentration camp in 1942. #WomenInSTEM #WHM #BookSky

'One of the top five most influential people in the networking industry today'. Happy birthday Jayshree Ullal: engineer, President and CEO of Arista Networks, a cloud networking company @womenintech.bsky.social @womeninlogic.bsky.social @womenintechseo.bsky.social @admirablewomen.bsky.social

The indomitable Bertha van Hoosen was born 163 years ago today. A skilled surgeon and medical lecturer of worldwide fame, she was also a founder of the American Medical Women's Association, and an advocate for the refinement of reduced pain birth. tinyurl.com/mtr5yhnm #WomenInSTEM #WHM #MedSky ⚕️

Saluting and mourning the passing of the great dame of radio: Dame Jenni Murray @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @admirablewomen.bsky.social @carvehername.bsky.social @feministory.bsky.social @womeninradio.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

#OnThisDay, 20 Mar 1985, Libby Riddles is the first woman to win the 1,100-mile trans-Alaska #Iditarod dog sled race. Watch a contemporary news report: www.youtube.com/watc...#OnThisDay,#Iditarod#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #AmericanHistory 🗃️

Physicist Xie Xide, China's "Queen of Semiconductors", was born 105 years ago today. She survived tuberculosis, heart disease, breast cancer, and hard labor during the Cultural Revolution to become president of Fudan University. #WomenInSTEM #WHM #PhysicsSky 🧪

Saluting writer/artist Kate Greenaway, #BOTD 1846. Though frustrated by the art training available to women, forged a stellar career illustrating greetings cards & children's books. A medal in her name is awarded for children's book #illustration @womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensart.bsky.social

1st woman to chair General Council of the TUC, 1st female cabinet minister, 1st woman privy counsellor in the UK, when appointed Minister of Labour in the Labour government of 1921: Marget Bondfield #BOTD1873 @womeninpoliticsss.bsky.social @admirablewomen.bsky.social @feministory.bsky.social

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3/13/1813 — b. Jane Elizabeth Jones, American abolitionist, suffragist, author, orator. Co-editor, "Anti-Slavery Bugle" (1845-49); wrote "The Young Abolitionists" (1848) for children. Speaker at the national #womensrights conventions (1852, 1856 & 1860) #WomensHistoryMonth #WriterSky #PolSky #KidLit

Legendary Indian oncologist V. Shanta was born 99 years ago today. She served at the Adyar Cancer Institute since the year after its 1954 opening, taking up the directorship from 1990 to 1997, dedicating herself and the institute to providing free cancer for the poor. #WomenInSTEM #WHM #MedSky ⚕️

#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1959, Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, is the first play by a Black woman to debut on Broadway. #WomensHistoryMonth #LiteraryWomen #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️ 1/2

'I... learned how to reach and hold my audience—softly, with feeling.' #OTD in 1970 actor/singer/songwriter Peggy Lee won a Grammy for her song 'Is That All There is?' Wrote or co-wrote more than 270 songs & had a cocktail named after her: the margarita @singersongwriter.bsky.social #jazz #Grammys

This #womenshistorymonth marks 246 years since my 7X great-grandmother jumped into an icy river under fire to save her family on the Tennessee frontier. History forgot her, I wrote her into my debut novel. Read more at tinyurl.com/DiannahJenni.... #writingcommunity #genealogy #booksky #amquerying

‪ Remember Claire Boothe Luce: writer, politician, diplomat #BOTD 1903. Her 1936 hit play The Women had an all-female cast. Served in House of Representatives 1943- 1947, 1st woman appointed as U.S. ambassador to a major country @admirablewomen.bsky.social @womeninpoliticsss.bsky.social

Just in case you feel like an uplifting read on #InternationationalWomensDay: Umoja, the all-female matriarch village in #Kenya founded as a sanctuary for survivors of domestic abuse and girls fleeing forced marriage and FGM @admirablewomen.bsky.social en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umoja,_...

LB Southwark installed a blue plaque to honour Una Marson at her former home in Brunswick Square, Camberwell in 2009 and a new library in Walworth was named after her in 2024

Happy birthday to Dame Ottoline Leyser: plant biologist, leader in science policy and engagement. CEO of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), Regius Professor of Botany at University of Cambridge @womeninstem.bsky.social @wisarchive.bsky.social @admirablewomen.bsky.social @carvehername.bsky.social

Wishing a happy 89th birthday to Valentina Tereshkova who, on June 16, 1963 became the first woman to venture into space. Though her later political career has been largely lamentable, we can still celebrate this triumph of her youth. tinyurl.com/2vt3rujp #WomenInSTEM #AstroSky #WHM 🚀

Happy birthday to Betty Abah, Nigerian journalist & activist for women & children's rights, founding CEE-HOPE in 2013. Has campaigned for free distribution of sanitary pads since Nigerian govt. provides free condoms #WomensHistoryMonth #IWD2026 @admirablewomen.bsky.social @carvehername.bsky.social

For #women everywhere @fbpech.bsky.social @admirablewomen.bsky.social @womenwarriors.com #IWD2026 www.togetheralliance.org.uk?link_id=12&c...

Physician Anna Broomall was born 179 years ago today. For three decades, she was a physician and professor in Philadelphia, working tirelessly to bring the antiseptic practices of Europe to the US to decrease the number of women dying from infections in childbirth. #WomenInSTEM #MedSky #BookSky ⚕️