Mary of Egypt reportedly converted to Christianity during a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. One of the earliest pilgrim accounts of Jerusalem is that left behind by a Roman woman named Egeria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egeria_(pilgrim)
First is a piece by Hildegard of Bingen AKA Saint Hildegard AKA the Sibyl of the Rhine (approximately 1098- approximately September 17, 1179)🇩🇪 was a German Benedictine Abbees - later Mother Superior- and writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, medical writer and practitioner during the High Middle Ages. She is one of the best known composers of early sacred melodies and one of the founders of scientific natural history in Germany. #SymSat#WomensHistoryMonth#HildegardOfBingen
Wikipedia's vision is of a world in which everyone can freely share in the sum of all human knowledge. But we cannot achieve that when we are missing so much knowledge about women.
This #WomensHistoryMonth, join us in closing the gender knowledge gap on Wikipedia and across the Wikimedia projects.
Albert Einstein’s first wife Mileva (Mitza) Marić was also a brilliant physicist. They met at the Polytechnic Institute of Zurich, where she had fought for special permissions to attend and where she received higher marks than Albert. Mitza put in as much if not more work on their theories but wasn’t credited because Albert told her their works wouldn’t get published with a woman’s name on them. Many of his lecture notes are in Mitza’s handwriting, and Albert was once heard at a party saying, “I need my wife, she helps solve all of my mathematical problems.” 80% of Einstein’s famous works were published during this marriage, referred to as his “magic years.” Those magic years ended abruptly after they divorced due to his infidelity and abandonment.
There's some really fanny-tastic stuff going on at the Vagina Museum this March! Why not come along and celebrate #WomensHistoryMonth with us? Admission to all of our exhibitions is free https://www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/visit
#WomensNonfiction 2.
The Five: The untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper - by Hallie Rubenhold
In this fascinating book the author researches the lives of Jack the Ripper's five victims. She does so to reframe the whole narrative: why are libraries written by the criminal, but nothing about the women who died? Why is there so much misinformation about who they were and how they lived?
Fawn Wood’s “Kikāwiynaw” is my favorite record at the moment. Her voice is quite captivating. And she really knows how to write a love song. Not sappy or romantic, just simple enduring love.
This record’s title is a Plains Cree word that translates to “our mother.” Therein she honors the female spirit.
My favorite track is “For Dallas,” but they’re all hauntingly beautiful.
"Whenever one of the graduates, Jane Monroe – a #mathematician who worked in #cryptanalysis in Hut 6 at Bletchley Park, deciphering the coded messages sent on German Enigma machines around the clock – was asked what she did during the war, she would always say: “Oh, I made the tea.”"
Jannetje Johanna Schaft was born in 1920 in Haarlem, Netherlands. She became a Dutch Resistance fighter who went by the nom de guerre “Hannie.”
In 1938 she enrolled at the University of Amsterdam to pursue law with a goal of becoming a human rights lawyer. She became friends with fellow students Sonja Frenk & Philine Polak, who were Jews, & became increasingly concerned about the rise in antisemitism. (1/5)
When #LindaWertheimer, #SusanStamberg, #NinaTotenberg, & #CokieRoberts first started at NPR, the odds were stacked against them. In a male-dominated industry, the opportunities for women were scarce, & breaking into journalism seemed like an impossible feat.
Women were often relegated to support roles, with few chances to have their voices heard on air. But these four remarkable women defied the odds, rising to prominence & reshaping the broadcast media landscape forever.
#OnThisDay, 10 Mar 1914, suffragette Mary Richardson attacks, with a meat cleaver, Velázquez's painting of Venus in the National Gallery in London in protest at the treatment of Emmeline Pankhurst.
The family of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg have released a statement denouncing the decision to bestow the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Leadership Award on a group that includes Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch. The chair of the award committee, corporate lawyer Brendan Sullivan, said: “The honorees reflect the integrity and achievement that defined Justice Ginsburg’s career and legend,” but Ginsburg's family called the award, "an affront to the memory of our mother and grandmother, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg." The award was previously given only to women, but expanded this year to honor men (Martha Stewart is the only female recipient), with Julie Opperman, chair of the Dwight D. Opperman Foundation (the award's organizer) saying: "Justice Ginsburg fought not only for women but for everyone." Here's more from Mother Jones.
#WomensNonfiction 8.
Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary - by Anita Anand
Princess Sophia Duleep Singh was the daughter of the last Maharaja of the Punjab, born and raised in England as the goddaughter of Queen Victoria. The book traces Sophia's life and that of her siblings, seeking their place between two worlds. Sophia became a suffragist, standing up for women's rights, and caring for war victims, displaced workers and children.
Today in Labor History March 8, 1857: Women garment workers picketed in New York City, demanding a 10-hour workday, better working conditions, and equal rights for women. In 1910, German socialist Clara Zetkin proposed to the Second International, that March 8 be celebrated as International Women’s Day to commemorate this strike.