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 …
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 …
Some of history’s famous female feuds have turned ugly. From verbal lashings — Joan Crawford and Bette Davis sniped at each other for over 40 years. To assault — Tonya Harding had Nancy Kerrigan kneecapped. To the drastic — Queen Elizabeth I had her rival Mary Queen of Scots beheaded. …
A mother tenderly bathing her child. A mother holding her baby in her arms. A mother hugging her child. Although Mary Cassatt declared herself unsuited to marriage, her paintings of women and their domestic life are among her most enduring. As a leading figure in the Impressionist movement these works …
“Once upon a time there was an old woman who loved to knit. She lived with her Old Man in the middle of a woods in a curious one-room schoolhouse which was rather untidy, and full of wool.” If you enjoy knitting, then you’ve no doubt heard of Elizabeth Zimmermann, …
A sculptor, installation and video artist primarily producing works that address the experiences of Black women, Simone Leigh has received a multitude of honors. She now adds the first African-American woman to represent the United States at the prestigious Venice Biennale to that list. Leigh works primarily in ceramics, a …
Saturday Night Live has championed women comics, actors and writers since its debut on Oct. 11, 1975. We know the names — Jane Curtin, Gilda Radner, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, Leslie Jones, Aidy Bryant — and the first SNL performer to win an Emmy since 1993, Kate …