Happy Women's History Month!

[ArabellaScott]

I had no idea women got a whole month!!!

I can't wait to see the flags flying from every government building and all the celebrations of women in history everywhere. 😊

I hope that Hipparchia's brave and dignified response to her opponent's action actually shamed him in front of everyone.

That's men*, though - if a woman opposes you and you can't refute her arguments, use brute strength to intimidate her.

*I know, I know NAM . . . 🙄

Hipparchia the Cynic. How wonderful is that?

I might just change my username.

Happy International Women's Day!

Heres an account of the reconstruction of a woman's face based on the remains of a 45,000 year old skull found in a cave in the Czech Republic. The oldest human remains found, homo sapiens but closely linked to Neanderthal.

https://ortogonline-com.translate.goog/doc/pt_br/OrtogOnLineMag/6/Zlaty.html

It's here!

It's INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

Let's hope it a day of companies championing women and not men with special feelings.

Have a good IWD, ladies.

Thanks for sharing that was an interesting read.

Go Sophie.

What do they were saying something was a woman's book but it was actually by a man?

So just went into bbc sounds. ‘ IWD content’ . Paris lees. For goodness sake …

It's very quiet here today, normally IWD is trending on MN.

This is an interesting read: (2) Why I'm Not Going To #InspireInclusion For This Year's International Women's Day | LinkedIn

And on the BBC news page about IWD… at the bottom ‘is there and international Men’s Day?’ Of course. 🙄

There are 365 (366 this year) of the fucking things!

😂

Here's a brilliant project - this woman is bringing historical female explorers to the forefront:

https://www.womanwithaltitude.com/

'I'm adventurer Lise Wortley, and with an all-female team in tow, I've been on a transformational journey, bringing to life the incredible stories of history's forgotten female adventurers, by literally walking in their footsteps, using only what was available to them at the time. Throughout history, women adventurers and explorers have been overshadowed by their male counterparts. This project seeks to highlight these ground-breaking women's stories and achievements, while challenging traditional narratives of adventurers being fearless and male. This project raises money for women's charities along the way and supports female adventure guides in the regions we visit. '

A whole page of women adventurers!

https://www.womanwithaltitude.com/womenadventurers

Elaine Miller - absolute Great of all time

Ellen Wilkinson, MP for Jarrow when the march was on, fought for the rights of workers. Never married, had many liaisons, died of cancer. Heroine of the working class. Labour should hang its head in shame

Rosalind Franklin
Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Both female scientists who missed out on Nobel prizes, Franklin because she had the temerity to die before the prizes for DNA were given out, and Burnell because she was missed off the paper that described the discovery of pulsars, which she discovered

Oh no, but don't you see? That genetic indicator will suddenly pop into existence in the chromosomes of males because of a certificate and a dress, of course!!

https://www.ncdv.org.uk/giulia-tofana-serial-killer-or-heroine/

Let's have a notorious woman from history, today:

'Giulia was born in Sicily in 1620, and had a modest but relatively happy childhood. That was until she was 13 years old when her mother was executed for murdering her husband – Giulia’s father. Things then took a very dark turn for Giulia.
It is thought that Giulia was taught how to make poison by either her mother, or a family friend. For nearly 20 years, she made bottles of poison which was a combination of arsenic, deadly nightshade and lead. She called it Aqua Tofana and it was bottled to look like face cream and was packaged with a picture of St Nicholas – who was the patron saint of children and unmarried people. St Nicholas was famous for helping young women and girls escape what we now call sex traffickers.
The lethal ingredients would apparently cause cold-like symptoms before the unlucky victim dropped dead several days later. The poison was completely undetectable, which meant that women could seemingly commit the perfect crime by killing their abusive husbands and getting away with it, leaving them to be free from the abuse.'

This is such a great thread @ArabellaScott, thank you

It is - It deserves to be in Classics.

Her story was in the Guardian, some time back. I didn't remember her name, but certainly her story.

Thanks both. We're not even halfway through March yet! I was only on Greeks before I got distracted.

Less time travel and back to antiquity tomorrow. The research is great fun!

The composer of Dr Who's iconic theme tune was a woman. Delia Derbyshire, inventor of electronic music!

Someone upthread mentioned the Bletchley women so I thought I’d mention that Dr Sally Waugh has been researching the 70+ of them who’d studied at Newnham College. With the College Archivist (Frieda Midgley) & a Fellow Emerita of History (Dr Gillian Sutherland) she’s developed the research into an exhibition. I’m aware most people are unlikely to be at a lose end in Cambridge on random weekday afternoons next week; but in the more likely event of you being able to get there at the weekend in September, it will be included in this year’s Open Cambridge (dates tbc apparently 🤷🏻‍♀️). Newnham also has the banner being carried in the photo at the top of this article about Newnhamite suffrage campaigners on display - & as it’s by the Buttery (ie dining hall) doubtless it would be available to view then too. As it’s outside term you might be able to see the replica that lives in the library.

(Newnham, should you be wondering, has not been razed to the ground for being a Women’s College because technically they accept TW. But you have to provide ID listing you as female when you apply. At undergrad, that knocks [almost?] everyone out of the running before they even submit the paperwork. Crucially, Murray Edwards [the College Formerly Known As New Hall] is all about self-ID & is flooding out the narcissistic supply & validation by insisting they’re a [still] a women’s College despite the fact they’ve rolled out the red carpet for any men who claim to “identify” as women 🤦🏻‍♀️)

NitroNine · Today 01:05

Someone upthread mentioned the Bletchley women

My Gran was one! We only found out when the priest spoke about it at her funeral.