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‘Dope Queens of Black History’: Twin Sisters Recreate Images Of Trailblazing Women

wyskFebruary 4, 2019

“We don’t expect to get rich or famous; we just want to teach the world about some Dope Queens of Black History!”...

Lucy Evelyn Cheesman, Pioneer Entomologist of the Pacific Islands

Dale DeBakcsyJanuary 30, 2019

Dangling over the edge of a cliffside, her hands gripping a couple clumps of bracken embedded in the rock for dear life, Lucy Evelyn Cheesman (1881-1969) might...

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Mathematician Dr. Gladys West Inducted Into Air Force Pioneers Hall of Fame

wyskJanuary 16, 2019

On December 6, 2018, 87-year-old mathematician Dr. Gladys West was presented with the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers award for her decades of contributio...

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Harriet Boyd Hawes, From Archaeologist to War Nurse to Economic Activist

Dale DeBakcsyJanuary 9, 2019

Harriet Boyd Hawes was cursed from birth with an overabundance of Purpose. She was ever in search of a Problem to solve, and possessed both the ability t...

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Mildred Cohn And Her Pioneering Work In Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Dale DeBakcsyJanuary 2, 2019

ATP is the stuff of life. Without it, cell communication shuts down, muscles freeze, and anything requiring ready energy (which is to say, darn near everything...

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The Last of the Women Physicians: Dorothea Leporin Erxleben (1715-1762)

Dale DeBakcsyDecember 5, 2018

Prior to the Eighteenth Century, the answer to the question, "Who was allowed to practice medicine?" was relatively simple: Damn near anybody. While those who ...

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Speaking Culture to Psychoanalysis: The Karen Horney Gender Revolution

Dale DeBakcsyNovember 21, 2018

How much of womanhood is a matter of biology, and how much one of culture? Prior to 1929, Freudian psychoanalysis had closed rank determinedly around a biologi...

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Traveling ‘Over The River And Through The Wood’ This Thanksgiving? You Should Know Lydia Maria Child

wyskNovember 21, 2018

She not only authored this famed line for a Thanksgiving Day poem (1844), she was a tireless crusader for Native Americans, slaves, and women....

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“Maria by Callas”… New Documentary On The Legendary Opera Singer Told Her Own Words

wyskNovember 8, 2018

Time magazine called her "a woman for whom the term prima donna could have been invented" and the "undisputed queen of the world’s opera". This weekend, the lif...

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