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Kush: Ancient Sudan. Made this open access for Women's history month, even though every month is #WHM. From Khartoum Neolithic to female icons at Kadruka & el-Kadada to the Kerma culture. Black-on-red pots, a pattern shared with late neolithic Egypt. >
Ivory hippo women, with the same curved knife and crocodile teeth as Kemetic Taweret. Egyptian New Kingdom conquest, and Nubian tribute scenes in murals, with this lady in ostrich feather mega-crown, and captive commoners. The Napatan realm & founders of Egyptian 25th dynasty >
Women of Kushan line: priestesses, queens. Pyramids at Nuri and their treasures. Queen Qalhata at el-Kurri. Auset and Nebthet hold up their red belts. Rock-cut temple of El-Kurru. Matrilineal succession recorded on the Aspelta stela: seven generations of female ancestors. >
In honor of Women’s History Month and listening to podcasts to drown out the sound of your own thoughts, here are some podcasts on women in the physical sciences that we think are pretty rad #WHM #WomensHistoryMonth (1/24)
Celebrate mathematician Emmy Noether’s birthday today by listening to this episode of BBC’s In our Time and learn about her important contributions to physics and mathematics! @BBCInOurTime
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… (2/24)
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… (2/24)
The Smithsonian’s podcast @SidedoorPod explores the history of the suits made for walking on the moon, and how important seamstresses that worked for Playtex were for the construction and design si.edu/sidedoor/ep-1-… (3/24)
If you untether society from material reality, you set it spinning off in directions you can’t control.
What’ll be the result of a law that says anyone can be a man or a woman if they say so?
You either discount your own senses or you discount the law, yes?
Can’t both be right.
What’ll be the result of a law that says anyone can be a man or a woman if they say so?
You either discount your own senses or you discount the law, yes?
Can’t both be right.
If you discount your senses, trust suffers. Relationships suffer. Cohesion suffers. People become embittered against others or themselves.
Truth matters. Personally.
If you discount the law, civics suffers. Cohesion suffers. Society suffers. And there’s a personal cost
Truth matters. Personally.
If you discount the law, civics suffers. Cohesion suffers. Society suffers. And there’s a personal cost
to individuals in crime and fear and further hardships.
Truth is *essential to the law. There can be no fairness in society without acknowledging the objective truth, a starting point, without which there’s no possible route to fairness, compromise, progress.
Only conflict.
Truth is *essential to the law. There can be no fairness in society without acknowledging the objective truth, a starting point, without which there’s no possible route to fairness, compromise, progress.
Only conflict.
She turned trauma into triumph.
Just 2 years after sustaining a spinal cord injury while skateboarding, Alana Nichols (@alananichols21) pursued a new athletic career: wheelchair basketball. 6 years later, she won her 1st Paralympic gold medal at the Beijing Games. #LA28 #WHM
Just 2 years after sustaining a spinal cord injury while skateboarding, Alana Nichols (@alananichols21) pursued a new athletic career: wheelchair basketball. 6 years later, she won her 1st Paralympic gold medal at the Beijing Games. #LA28 #WHM
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
#OnThisDay in 1911 The Triangle Shirtwaist factory burst into flames—killing 129 women and 17 men.
The tragedy galvanized women across class divisions to fight for better working conditions.
#OnThisDay in 1911 The Triangle Shirtwaist factory burst into flames—killing 129 women and 17 men.
The tragedy galvanized women across class divisions to fight for better working conditions.
What is a shirtwaist?
The shirtwaist was a staple of turn-of-the-century women’s wardrobes. Worn with dark skirts, shirtwaists were popular with women of all classes. Production began in tenement sweatshops, but moved into electrified factory lofts in the early 20th century.
The shirtwaist was a staple of turn-of-the-century women’s wardrobes. Worn with dark skirts, shirtwaists were popular with women of all classes. Production began in tenement sweatshops, but moved into electrified factory lofts in the early 20th century.
By 1910 NYC's garment industry produced 70% of women's clothing & 40% of men's clothing worn in the U.S.
Young immigrant women who made shirtwaists faced long hours, low pay, & brutal working conditions.
📷 Previous installation at the Museum
Young immigrant women who made shirtwaists faced long hours, low pay, & brutal working conditions.
📷 Previous installation at the Museum
New #Womenshistorymonth thread. Was the #NineteenthAmendment only about women’s right to #vote?
#suffrage #whm2021 #whm #womenshistorymonth2021 #feminism (1/15)
#suffrage #whm2021 #whm #womenshistorymonth2021 #feminism (1/15)
That is precisely the question that politicians, activists, and legal authorities fought over in the years following the #NineteenthAmendment ‘s ratification. #whm2021 #suffrage #rights (2/15)
Happy #InternationalWomensDay! We’re excited to celebrate with a #BGOCresearch 🧵feat. @witnesstildeath. Dr. Francena Turner is a Postdoc within @UMD_MITH
In celebration of #WHM we’ve been talking to #blackgirlsoncampus about work that centers our history. Today, @witnesstildeath is sharing reflections on her dissertation titled ‘Black Women & Student Activism at Fayetteville State, 1960-1972’
"My work is a gendered study of Black student activism at FSU during Sit-In/Black Campus Movement(s). I provide a reconsideration of previous scholarship on the Sit-Ins (1960-1963) & the first scholarly study of Black Power Era activism in Fayetteville/at FSU" @witnesstildeath
Milunka Savić was a Serbian war heroine who fought in the Balkan Wars and in WWI. Her brother got called to serve in the First Balkan War in 1912, but Milunka decided to take his place. Today, she is considered the most-decorated female combatant in the history of warfare. #WHM
"Milunka Savić decided she wanted a bit of this war lark, so she lopped her hair off and donned her brother’s clothes and headed off to the front. She was quickly thrown into combat, and it wasn’t long before she received her first medal.
It was on her 10th mission that her gender was finally revealed. She had been wounded before, but up until this point she had always avoided being hit in the chest. Bulgarian shrapnel put paid to this, and Milunka was taken to the field doctor.
We are celebrating #WomensHistoryMonth at Past Preservers by showcasing our amazing experts!
We want you to get to know them as well as we do, so we made a list for you! twitter.com/i/lists/101742…
Over the month we will introduce you to them individually on this thread! #WHM2021
We want you to get to know them as well as we do, so we made a list for you! twitter.com/i/lists/101742…
Over the month we will introduce you to them individually on this thread! #WHM2021
We would like to start by Introducing Alex Iszatt, Forensic Criminologist & Former CSI.
A real history buff, her interest in forensic science has seen her give advice on cold cases & historical crimes.
Find out more about Alex at #WomensHistoryMonth
A real history buff, her interest in forensic science has seen her give advice on cold cases & historical crimes.
Find out more about Alex at #WomensHistoryMonth
Its our pleasure to introduce you to Historian & Author Alexandra Jones!
"I am an American historian of WWII & the early Cold War period, I began my career in museums & I now work on exposing stolen cultural property" #WomensHistoryMonth
"I am an American historian of WWII & the early Cold War period, I began my career in museums & I now work on exposing stolen cultural property" #WomensHistoryMonth
