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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Yo ho, yo ho, it was a pirate’s life for her. Mary Read spent much of her life dressed in male clothing, engaging in the traditional male activities of the time like soldiering, sailoring and eventually, pirating. It seems she was born to it. With her sailor husband was lost …