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Fearless Memory: Our First Three Decades With Lera Auerbach, Composer, Pianist, Poet, Artist

Dale DeBakcsySeptember 17, 2019

One of the things that consistently blows my students' minds is the fact that there are still classical composers living today. After being taken through...

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Retired Albuquerque PD Sergeant Walks 200 Miles To Honor 240 People Murdered During Her Watch

wyskSeptember 4, 2019

This past April, we had the honor of meeting Liz Thomson, law enforcement veteran and strangulation expert, Retired Albuquerque Police Department Sergeant/Homi...

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Caroline Haslett And The Rise Of The Women’s Engineering Society

Dale DeBakcsyAugust 28, 2019

1919 was a year of promise born of misery. Between the ravages of influenza and the indiscriminate trench carnage of the First World War, millions had pe...

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Kirsten Flagstad And How The “Voice Of The Century” Was Nearly Silenced

Dale DeBakcsyAugust 21, 2019

In June of 1946, the greatest Wagnerian soprano of her era, perhaps the greatest of all time, cabled to her longtime accompanist the news that her husband had ...

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Ruth Gordon Schnapp, California’s First Woman Structural Engineer

Dale DeBakcsyAugust 14, 2019

In the year 1933, the Long Beach Earthquake bore down on Southern California with the fury of revelation. At 6.4, it was not the largest earthquake to ev...

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: 26 Years As A Justice And Still As Supreme As Ever

wyskAugust 9, 2019

"Ruth Bader Ginsburg entered a legal world where the best jobs were off-limits to women and emerged as a Supreme Court Justice."...

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8 Things You Should Know About Elizabeth Holtzman, Pioneering Politician And Serial Glass Ceiling Smasher

wyskAugust 9, 2019

"Politics helps determine the kind of society we’d like to live in. When women aren’t an equal participant in that conversation, it has real-world consequences."...

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Feminism Isn’t Harmful For Millennial Women… 22-Year-Old Feminist Responds To Claims Made By “The Feminist Fixer” Suzanne Venker

Guest ContributorMay 30, 2019

By Sarah Olson - Feminism’s over-enthusiastic message has led to crippling debt and plummeting marriage rates among millennials, according to “The Feminist Fix...

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Marissa Zappas Aims To Disrupt The Fragrance Industry By Using Scent To Connect Women Of The Past To Women Today

wyskMay 10, 2019

Marissa Zappas is an anthropologist turned perfumer who has combined her two passions into an artisan fragrance collection called Redamance. It’s a historical ...

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