One hundred years since women won the right to vote. One hundred days until the election. One hundred women with one hundred stories.
Today marks the final day of our 100 Woman Project, a special series we began on July 27 to count down 100 days before the 2020 election. We began with a profile of Emma Lazarus, whose poem is inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty; 100 days later, …
In her TED talk, Craftivist Collective founder Sara Corbett describes using handkerchiefs to, as their tagline says, “change the world one stitch at a time.” A group advocating a living wage had tried everything to connect with the board of the British department store chain Marks & Spencer, without success. …
“I had this grand idea that Elvira’s kind of the Santa Claus of Halloween.” Self-proclaimed Queen of Halloween, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, with her signature black bouffant hair and plunging neckline, is the campy queen of horror who started life as Cassandra Peterson, a midwestern girl from Kansas. At …
Last Saturday afternoon, there was a full-on dance party at a polling place in Philadelphia where “The Cha Cha Slide” blasted from a flatbed truck and every voter waiting in line was grooving, including the man in front wearing a t-shirt that said “F—k 2020”. This happy little dance party, …
Turns out those folks in Salem Village, MA could have saved themselves a lot of trouble and a bunch of lives if they had just turned to science for the answers. In 1692, young village girls began experiencing violent fits that included contortions and uncontrollable outbursts of screaming. The general …
Like millions of other Americans, astronaut Kate Rubins voted early in the 2020 election. Unlike her fellow citizens, however, Kate’s feet weren’t exactly on American soil. Kate is a flight engineer on Expedition 64, part of a three-person crew which launched from southern Kazakhstan on Oct. 14 (her 42nd birthday) …
Amy Coney Barrett was sworn in on Oct. 26, 2020 to occupy the Supreme Court seat of the recently deceased Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She brings to the Supreme Court, through her writings, judicial opinions, associations and actions, a history of anti-reproductive rights opinions, including against choice and IVF and anti-LGBTQ …
She was just 19 when she wrote her classic horror novel during a rainy, claustrophobic summer in Switzerland in 1816. But what Mary Godwin Shelley created in her half-dead monster Frankenstein would haunt reader’s imaginations for centuries to come. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin was born in London in 1797. Her mother, …
Purple hippos, pastel pink pigs and adorably sweet, not-scary-at-all monsters are what illustrator and author Sandra Boynton is best known for. But did you know that the woman who began designing greeting cards to earn money in college also has a Grammy nomination to her famous name? It’s just one …
Leslie Knope is a relentlessly cheerful, hardworking, and optimistic civil servant who really, really, really believes in the ideals of democracy. She uses her seemingly limitless energy to try and make the world a better place, despite the resistance of those around her. As she says “There’s nothing we can’t …