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.
As we celebrate #WomensHistoryMonth, join us in reflecting on the invaluable roles women played during #WorldWarII, both on the home front and in uniform.
From welding and riveting in shipyards to driving trucks, flying planes, and breaking codes, women showed unwavering resilience and dedication.
As NASA’s first Chief of Astronomy, Dr. Nancy Grace Roman (1925–2018) made the Hubble Space Telescope a reality. This video shows how her leadership and perseverance paved the way for space telescopes and the future of astronomy. #MeetDrRoman#WomensHistoryMonth https://www.instagram.com/p/C40rUh8o0UZ/
#WomensNonfiction 15.
The fossil hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World - by Shelley Emling
This is a biography of pioneering paleontologist and fossil hunter Mary Anning, who is credited with discovering the first complete ichthyosaur and plesiosaur skeletons. Her discoveries contributed a lot to the science of paleontology - and her life was fascinating in all kinds of ways.
#WomensNonfiction 14.
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands - by Mary Seacole
Mary Seacole was a Jamaican woman, trained in medicine by her doctor mother. She wanted to join Florence Nightingale in nursing soldiers during the Crimean War, but she was not accepted. So instead, she traveled to the front on her own and put up an inn where she made food and sold drinks, and regularly walked to the trenches to tend to the wounded.
#OnThisDay, 22 March 1982, around 250 people blockade Greenham Common airbase in the UK. 34 are arrested. It was the first mass non-violent protest by the Greenham Common peace women.
In Germany in 1888, 39-year-old Bertha Benz (her husband put the "Benz" in Mercedes) went on what is widely regarded as the world's first road trip when she took the family's Patent Motor Wagon to visit her mother 60 miles away. 12 hours later, after unclogging a blocked fuel line with her hat pin and fixing the car's ignition cable with her garter, she arrived. Here's Atlas Obscura's story — an extract from "Women Behind the Wheel" by Nancy A. Nichols — about Bertha, Hellé Nice (the Bugatti Queen), "First Lady of Drag Racing" Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney, and some of the other women who fought at every turn for the right to drive.
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)
#OnThisDay, 21 Mar 1945, Hannie Schaft, an active member of the Dutch resistance known as "the girl with the red hair", is arrested at a German checkpoint in Haarlem.
She is later executed, allegedly saying "I shoot better" after the first attempt to shoot her missed.