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

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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 ⚕️

Dames salute the courage of Amreen Qadir campaigning for Kashmir girls #girlseducation @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social @thosenerdygirls.bsky.social @fbpech.bsky.social @admirablewomen.bsky.social @carolemason.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Remembering musician & composer Lindsay Cooper, #BOTD 1951. After a classical training, worked with a number of bands, composed scores for film & TV, & recorded 11 solo albums. Founded, and toured with, the #Feminist Improvising Group for 5 years @admirablewomen.bsky.social @ronniescotts.bsky.social

Saluting the 'Mama of Dada': Beatrice Wood #BOTD 1893, ceramicist, sculptor, co-founder of The Blind Man and Rongwrong magazines with Marcel Duchamp. Pioneer of lusterware, creates metallic glazes on pottery @womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womenart.bsky.social @admirablewomen.bsky.social

3/2/1873 — b. Inez Haynes Irwin, American author, journalist, suffragist, feminist. Co-founder,College Equal Suffrage League; member, Natl Wmns Party + the feminist org Heterodoxy. Wrote the “Maida” book series; editor of ‘TheMasses’ socialist mag #WomensHistoryMonth #womenwriters #WriterSky #PolSky

Only seven more days to catch the fantastic Anna Ancher: Painting Light exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery! Uplifting, daring in technique & sometimes poignant damesnet.com?p=11343 @dulwichgallery.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social #art #blueskyArt

Let's hear it for philanthropist & activist Kathryn Wasserman Davis, #BOTD in 1907. Campaigned for women's rights & planned parenthood. Took up painting at 94, kayaking at 95, at 100 launched her $1m Projects for Peace @carvehername.bsky.social @admirablewomen.bsky.social @womeninamerica.bsky.social

2/24/1604 — b. Elena Cassandra Tarabotti, Venetian author, nun. Early Modern Italian writer, ltr correspondent; religious sister(1620). Writer of early political + proto- #feminist theories(1643–52). Controversial pamphlets denouncing wmn’s oppression/17th c. issues #womenshistory #WriterSky #PolSky

Saluting German photographer & journalist Marie Goslich, #BOTD in 1859. Campaigned for improved housing, working conditions and land reform, using her camera to focus on the plight of women and families @womeninphotography.bsky.social @womenjournos.bsky.social @admirablewomen.bsky.social

1st woman botanist elected as Fellow of the Royal Society: #BOTD 1879 Agnes Arber FRS, plant morphologist and anatomist, historian of botany and philosopher of biology. @wisarchive.bsky.social @admirablewomen.bsky.social @carvehername.bsky.social @feministory.bsky.social @carolemason.bsky.social

Nina Simone blended classical, #jazz, blues, gospel, folk & pop into a powerful, genre-defying style. Her voice deep, dramatic & emotive; her piano playing virtuosic. She was born #OTD in 1933. A fierce voice in the #CivilRights Movement, her iconic protest songs include 𝘔𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘪 𝘎𝘰𝘥𝘥𝘢𝘮. #BHM

If you care about #womensrights #feminism #women'srighttochoose, please watch and share this @carolemason.bsky.social @womenwarriors.com @feministlawprofs.bsky.social @emrazz.bsky.social @feministory.bsky.social @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @simonwhale.bsky.social @admirablewomen.bsky.social

Remembering Gabriele Münter, German Expressionist painter #BOTD 1877. At forefront of Munich avant-garde in early 20thC. Founding member of expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter @womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womenart.bsky.social @admirablewomen.bsky.social @jwomenshistory.bsky.social

Little Nige taking a leaf out of big daddy Trump's misogynistic playbook. @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @womenwritersnet.bsky.social @womenwarriors.com @feministory.bsky.social @womenjournos.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Wishing a happy 90th birthday to French nuclear physicist Monique Sené, the first president of the Scientists for Nuclear Energy Information Association who has worked for decades for a more transparent and participatory discussion of nuclear energy in France. #WomenInSTEM #Physics 🧪

Saloua Raouda Choucair, Self Portrait 1943, artist born in Lebanon, pioneer of abstract art in the Middle East #WomensArt

Is Goodwin taking lessons from the Taliban? Stella hits the spot @feministory.bsky.social @carolemason.bsky.social @womenwritersnet.bsky.social @womenwarriors.com @feministlawprofs.bsky.social @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @jwomenshistory.bsky.social @emrazz.bsky.social

It’s a familiar story. A woman comes forward to speak out about the harm a powerful man has caused. But she’s met with disbelief, indifference or disdain. Help us support the brave women to take them on👇 https://goodlaw.social/ouzo

2/6/1905 — b. Merze Tate, American scholar, historian, professor. The first African-American woman to be enrolled at Oxford University (1932). The first black woman to receive a Ph.D. in #gov from both Harvard University and Radcliffe College #womenshistory #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM #AcademicSky #woc

2/1/1978 — A United States postal stamp featuring Harriet Tubman is issued in Washington, DC. The first United States stamp to honor a black woman #womenshistory #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM #woc #OTD