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11/22/1909 — The "Uprising of the Twenty Thousand” is a turning point for #womensrights + #labor #union; NYC shirtwaist workers #strike starts over wages+working conditions;within a day approx 20,000 wmn garment workers walk off their factory jobs #womenshistory #generalstrike #MassBlackout #boycott
November 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Mario Savio www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsO_...

#Unite and #GeneralStrike - the last peaceful #Resistance before violent #Revolution becomes inevitable
MARIO SAVIO - "Operation of the Machine"
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November 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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🚨SATURDAY NOVEMBER 22, 2025🚨

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#GeneralStrike
November 22, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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Happy birthday CWHF Indictee Dr. Carolyn Mazure, a groundbreaking leader in women’s health.
Learn about her at https://www.cwhf.org/carolyn-m-mazure
#WomensHealth #GenderEquity #CWHF #HappyBirthdayDrMazure #InspiringWomen #MedicalEquality #WomenInMedicine #HealthResearch #CelebrateWomen
November 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Look what arrived today! So proud. The Burgundian Empire has some fabulous stories. #womenshistory #books @penandswordbooks.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
11/22/1819 — b. Mary Ann Evans, British author, poet, essayist, journalist, and translator. Pseudonym "George Elliot," one of the most acclaimed English novelists of the Victorian era. One of few female writers during this period to experiment with realism #womenshistory #womenwriters #BookSky #BOTD
November 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
11/21/1870 — b. Mary Johnston, American author, suffragist, social rights activist. Wrote 23 books, a play, several short stories, and narrative poems. She primarily combined history with romance; her bestselling U.S. novel, ‘To Have and to Hold’ (1900) #womenshistory #womenwriters #BookSky #BOTD
November 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
11/20/1896 — b. Rose Pesotta, Russian labor leader, organizer, feminist, writer. A leading organizer of labor unions in the United States and in Canada (1933-37); vice-president of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (1934-44) #womenshistory #womenleaders #labor #unions #ReSisters #BOTD
November 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
11/19/1903 — Mary Morton Kehew becomes the first president of the newly established National Women’s Trade Union League; Jane Addams becomes VP. The Women’s Trade Union League was created after the American Federation of Labor failed to admit women #womenshistory #womensrights #labor #trade #unions
November 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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11/19/1876 — b. Tatyana Afanasyeva, Ukranian-Dutch physicist, mathematician. Researcher of pedagogy, randomness + entropy;significant contributor to the fields of statistical mechanics + statistical thermodynamics. Published numerous papers #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #MathSky #HistSci #SlavaUkraine
November 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
11/19/1835 — b. Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi, Indian Queen, warrior, #freedomfighter. Queen of the Maratha-ruled state of Jhansi, key figure + leading #warrior of India’s first struggle for independence, the Indian Rebellion(1857). She symbolizes bravery, honor + #patriotism. #womenshistory #ReSister
November 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
11/18/1910 — Black Friday | Emmeline Pankhurst leads a British suffrage march on the House of Commons. The suffragettes are met with police brutality however replacements kept arriving to replace the arrested #womenshistory #womensrights #votingrights #ReSisters #BlackFriday #TDIH
November 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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"I am traumatized. I am not stupid" -- one of the Epstein survivors sends a message directly to Trump
November 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
11/18/1869 — The American Woman Suffrage Association is founded by Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, and other more conservative activists to work exclusively for woman suffrage. AWSA focused on amending individual state constitutions #womenshistory #womensrights #votingrights #statesrights #TDIH
November 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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This week's #GileadGazette. GOP #catchkits, a national abortion ban disguised as compromise, Peter Thiel’s period-tracking ring, #Hegseth blocking a female SEAL commande & an $80M forced-birth election blitz. Buckle up.
#politicalsatire #womenshealth #womensrights #feminist
November 16, 2025 at 3:47 AM
11/16/1820 — b. Louisa Twining, English author, artist, social worker. Reformer of laws concerning the poor; wrote "Emblems of Medieval Christian Art" (1852), "Types and Figures of the Bible" (1854) + many papers on poor #law. President, Women’s Local #Government Society #womenshistory #womenwriters
November 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
11/15/1866 — b. Cornelia Sorabji, Indian lawyer, legal advocate. The first female Indian barrister; the first woman to practice law in India. Dedicated to the representation of purdahnashins; studied at Oxford University (1889-93), and a member of Lincoln’s Inn (1922) #womenshistory #law #BOTD
November 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
11/14/1917 — The “Night of Terror” | 33 American women suffragists from the from the National Woman’s Party demanding the right to vote are brutalized and imprisoned after picketing President Woodrow Wilson’s White House www.nps.gov/articles/000... #womenshistory #womensrights #votingrights #TDIH
November 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
11/14/1889 — Nellie Bly, American journalist and activist, begins her 72 day journey around the globe to recreate the mythical adventure depicted in Jules Verne’s novel, “Around the World in Eighty Days.” She returned on January 25, 1890 #womenshistory #womenwriters #travel #OTD
November 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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NEW ESSAY — A. D. Manns on the writer, medium, and witch Roma Lister and the speculative origins of Aradia (“the gospel of the witches”) published in 1899 — publicdomainreview.org/essay/roma-l...
November 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Liv Arnesan and Ann Bancroft land on Antarctica and begin their 94 day, 1,717 mile expedition to ski and sail across the continent’s landmass and the Ross Ice Shelf, a floating slab of ice the size of France #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistSci #OTD
November 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
11/13/1931 — Hattie Caraway is appointed to the U.S. Senate (Arkansas-D). The first woman to be elected to the Senate in her own right (1932), re-elected ('38). The first woman to chair a Senate committee, first wmn to co-sponsor the Equal Rights Amendment ('43) #womenshistory #senate #gov #law #ERA
November 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Today! Celebrate the 150th anniversary of Queen Margaret University (QMU) with a special event featuring Dr Bill Aird, Senior Lecturer in Medieval History. Tickets (free), edin.ac/46Z4mz9

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November 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM