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Ellen Powell Thompson: How Women’s Suffrage Benefitted from the Work of a Botanist in the Nineteenth-Century American West Ellen Powell Thompson’s life illustrates how environmental exploration and women’s reform were deeply interconnected.

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The new season of our podcast is accompanied by a series of pieces published in partnership with KCET.

Today's is by Erika Bsumek at UT Austin about the work of botanist and suffragist Ellen Powell Thompson.

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Carmela Nieto de Herrera

3/6/1879 — b. Carmela Nieto de Herrera, Cuban journalist, author, social advocate, feminist, philanthropist. The first female journalist in Cuba; wrote political works, #kidlit + many essays, stories, articles for mags + newspapers #WomensHistoryMonth #womenwriters #WriterSky #PolSky #IWD #FreePress

A motivational montage image celebrating adventurer Tori Murden McClure, featuring a main action photo on the left and an inset formal portrait on the upper right. The primary photograph shows Tori Murden, a woman in her thirties with short brown hair, wearing sunglasses and a black short-sleeved top, triumphantly raising one arm (holding a cap) while seated and rowing in a small, specialized ocean rowboat named "SECTOR" on calm open ocean waters under a clear blue sky. The sleek, narrow boat is painted white with red and black accents, featuring bold branding including "SECTOR" in large letters, "NO LIMITS" slogan, "SOLA" (likely indicating solar-powered elements), American flags, sponsor logos like "JCR" and "TJR," solar panels on the deck, two long oars extended into the water (one with a paddle visible), a small cabin window, an antenna or mast, and the boat partially submerged in choppy blue-green sea waves. In the upper right corner is a smaller rectangular inset headshot of an older Tori Murden McClure in a professional setting: she has short dark hair, warm smile, wearing small earrings, and a dark blazer over a white blouse, posed against a neutral background in a formal portrait style. The overall composition highlights her historic achievement as the first woman and first American to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1999, blending adventure and accomplishment.

Tori Murden McClure is the first woman to row solo & unassisted across the Atlantic Ocean.

She rowed. 🚣‍♀️😮

She completed the 3,300-mile journey from the Canary Islands to Guadeloupe in 81 days in a 23-foot custom boat named the 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭.

She was born #OTD in 1963. #WomensHistoryMonth

Emma Kaili Metcalf Beckley Nakuina seated

3/5/1847 — b. Emma Kaili Metcalf Beckley Nakuina, American historian, author, curator, jurist. Hawaiian historian, cultural writer; authority on ancient laws + water rights #law. First curator of Hawaii National Museum; early female Hawaiian judge #WomensHistoryMonth #womenwriters #WriterSky #LawSky

Kiri Jeanette Claire Te Kanawa - Infinite Women On 1 December 1971 the young Kiri Te Kanawa took the operatic world by storm when she made her debut as the Countess in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro at Covent Garden.

Born today: #NewZealand #Maori #opera singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa was born 6 March 1944. The lyric #soprano is known for her "mellow yet vibrant, warm, ample & unforced" voice, particularly when singing #Mozart, #Strauss, #Verdi, #Handel & #Puccini.

Ruby Silvious' Tiny Paintings and Assemblages Reimagine Used Teabags Diminutive fragments of fine mesh transform into charming tableaux in Ruby Silvious' meticulous teabag pieces.

"From diminutive pieces of fine mesh, Ruby Silvious meticulously conjoins, stains, tears, and sculpts a range mixed-media collages and tiny paintings from repurposed teabags."
www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/ruby...

Henrietta Lacks: Family of 'stolen cells' woman settle second lawsuit Novartis is the second drug company to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of a woman whose cells have enabled huge advances in science.

Lacks' family never received any compensation, and have fought for years to get justice for the stolen cells.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Adelaide Casely-Hayford: Sierra Leonean activist, teacher and fiction writer YouTube video by Infinite Women

My latest YouTube video: Sierra Leonean activist, teacher and fiction writer Adelaide Casely-Hayford advocated for the Creole community, cultural nationalism, feminism and education for women and girls.
youtu.be/P2wwGUvfIg8?...

A person in winter gear with a large yellow backpack uses walking sticks to navigate a snowy mountain path

Born today: South Korean mountaineer Oh Eun-sun was born 5 March 1966. She was the first Korean woman to climb the Seven Summits. On April 27, 2010, she reached the summit of Annapurna making her the first woman to climb all 14 eight-thousanders.

#sports #womenssports #womeninsports #athlete #korea

Talking About Women’s History: A Whole Lot of Questions and an Answer with Allison Tyra – History in the Margins Allison Tyra is the creator of Infinite Women, an online biographical database launched in 2020 that has grown to include more than 9,000 women’s stories from around the world, throughout history and…

I love talking about women's history, whether I'm the one asking questions or answering them ☺️ Thanks to @pdtoler.bsky.social for including me in her Women's History Month series!

Kansas revoked transgender people’s IDs overnight – researchers anticipate cascading health and social consequences With invalid driver’s licenses and birth certificates, transgender people are at risk for more than just steep fines and imprisonment.

This new law passed after legislators overrode the governor’s veto to rush it through legislation.
There is no grace period; trans & nonbinary people will have immediately invalid documents putting them at risk of a $1,000 fine & up to 6 months in jail.
theconversation.com/kansas-revok...

A black and while portrait of a woman from the neck up. Her dark hair is pulled back in a bun and she looks up and to the left of the viewer.

Born today: Algerian singer and author Taos Amrouche, born 4 March 1913, became the first modern Algerian woman to publish a novel in 1947 with the autobiographical novel Jacinthe noir.
#algeria #algerian #music #singer #writer #writing #novel #booksky #history #womenshistory #OTD #TodayInHistory

Black and white photo of a woman in a dress, crouched, both arms and her right leg outstretched

#OTD: German modern dance pioneer Hanya Holm was born March 3, 1893. Considered one of the "Big Four" of modern dance, she was influential as a choreographer and dance educator. She was one of the founding artists at Bennington College, where the American Dance Festival originated.

#DIBLives Deeply committed to social justice & alleviating the burdens of poverty & ill-health (which she noted fell heaviest on women), with characteristic modesty Maura O'Donohue (b. #OTD 1933) described her own career as merely ‘getting other people to do their bit’. www.dib.ie/biography/od...

"resting bitch face"? you are gravely mistaken. my bitch face never rests. and it never relents

Books - Infinite Women Infinite Women creator Allison Tyra’s debut book, Uncredited: Women’s Overlooked, Misattributed, and Stolen Work, is now available. Uncredited (previously announced as To Her Credit) is an…

Parks herself later said "If the white press got ahold of that information, they would have a field day. They'd call her a bad girl, and her case wouldn't have a chance."
It's one of 100s of stories in Uncredited: Women’s Overlooked, Misattributed & Stolen Work www.infinite-women.com/books/ 3/3

This was nine months before Rosa Parks did the same, but Parks (a seasoned civil rights activist) was deemed a more respectable public face for the cause, as was Aurelia Browder, the lead defendent, than the unwed, pregnant teen Colvin. 2/3

#OTD on March 2, 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white woman, eventually leading her to become a co-defendent in the Browder v. Gayle anti-segregation case. 1/3 www.infinite-women.com/women/claude... #blackhistory #blackhistorymonth #womenshistory

It's “an in-depth feminist treatise of the French Enlightenment, featuring an original claim about the modernity of gender inequality that informed the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Dupin's secretary.”
Transcript: www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/u...

Get the book: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

This week on the podcast, Dr Rebecca Wilkin and Dr Angela Hunter have recently reconstructed Louise Dupin's Work on Women, which is now available in English for the first time thanks to their efforts. 1/2

Listen now: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

February 28 - The Price of Demanding Equal Pay On this day in Labor History the year was 1942. That was the day that Sue Cowan Williams filed a lawsuit for equal pay for black school teachers in Little Rock, Arkansas. Eighty-six black teachers worked in the city’s segregated school system. They were all members of the Little Rock Class Room Teachers Association.

February 28 - The Price of Demanding Equal Pay

On this day in Labor History the year was 1942. That was the day that Sue Cowan Williams filed a lawsuit for equal pay for black school teachers in Little Rock, Arkansas. Eighty-six black teachers worked in the city’s segregated school system. They w

Juana Inés de la Cruz - Infinite Women Mexican writer and poet

#OTD: dated March 1, 1691, “Reply to Sor Philothea”, a letter written by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz in the Convent of San Jerónimo in Mexico City, was a defense of women’s right to study secular and religious texts published posthumously.
Read more: infinite-women.com/women/juana-ines-de-la-cruz

She looks like she's about to add to that collection of scratches on your hand!

‘I am the enemy of death’: Gisèle Pelicot’s memoir is a remarkable tale of survival Gisèle Pelicot’s compelling personal tale is very different from her daughter’s, reflecting their contrasting ways of surviving trauma.

"Her memoir... also rewinds to her parents’ courtship, her childhood and youth and each stage of her adult life. It reveals how her husband’s crimes forced her to recast her entire adult life to-date – and its relationship to her childhood."
theconversation.com/i-am-the-ene...

Mabel K. Staupers

2/27/1890 — b. Mabel K. Staupers, American nursing leader, nursing activist. Pioneer Af-Am nurse; executive secretary of the National Assn of Graduate Colored Nurses + co-founder of the National Council of Negro Women #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #BlackHistoryMonth #NurseSky #HistNursing #BHM #woc

You can read more about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/sarah-...

No one deserves sunbeams more! (My own cats would be deeply affronted by that statement)

5-year-old me as my mom tells me not to sit so close to the TV

You can also read about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/alice-...