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Day 24: LADY SHIVA!!! the deadliest assassin in the DC Universe, Shiva has trained Batman and has also trained the third Robin, Tim Drake. Shiva's daughter, Cassandra Cain, would later become the second Batgirl. Can beat yours and your favorite hero’s ass. #WomensHistoryMonth
Moving along with #WomensHistoryMonth, here are two of my #nonfiction picture books about creative, inspiring women: #janeausten, #anniesullivan and #helenkeller.
Known for ground-breaking work documenting insect life cycles, Maria Sibylla Merian's illustrations included the plants and flowers on which the animals fed & lived. "De Europischen insecten" (1730) in @BioDivLibrary : https://t.co/2UDXZ66bjM #MuseumBouquet #WomensHistoryMonth
Day 23: CASSANDRA CAIN! Nothing but respect for MY BATGIRL. The daughter of two notorious assassins, David Cain and Lady Shiva, Cassandra became the new Batgirl with Batman and Oracle's blessing, and was later adopted by Bruce Wayne. Can beat Batman. #WomensHistoryMonth
This is the only known self-portrait by Margit Pogany, the painter identified as "Mademoiselle Pogany" in sculptures by Brancusi. She arranged to sell her painting to the museum so that it could be kept w/ Brancusi’s portraits of her. #WomensHistoryMonth https://t.co/eDAIII0dcp
Today's inspirational woman from the collections @SOASArchives is Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati (1858-1922), Indian scholar, feminist, educator and social reformer. You can read more about Ramabai through the Women's History Network blog https://t.co/KMwEA3ssJ0 #WomensHistoryMonth
#WomensHistoryMonth Suffragettes were Edwardian ladies of the early 1900s who had protested and battled with the government of their day to win the vote.
Learn more about them in David Roberts' Suffragette: The Battle for Equality
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Day 22: Dr. Pamela Isley aka POISON IVY! A botanical biochemist, Pamela is a fervent eco-terrorist out to save the world's plant life by any means necessary. She often finds herself at odds with Batman, though they have, on occasion, fought on the same side. #WomensHistoryMonth
#Catwoman by CHUBETO #LoisLane by Tim Sale #Catwoman80 #WomensHistoryMonth
#WomensHistoryMonth Lois Youngen played in @AAGPBL 1951-1954. She played with Bill Allington's All Star team. The team of women players played against men's teams across the country from 1954-1958. They traveled over 10,000 miles. Youngen lives in Oregon. #womenbelonginbaseball
Florence Nightingale 💉
Known for her night rounds to aid the wounded. During the Crimean War she and a team of nurses improved the unsanitary conditions at a British base hospital which greatly reducing the death count.
#WomensHistoryMonth
DAY 21: THE GAWDESS HERSELF WHO IS NOW GETTING HER OWN TIRLW FOR THE FIRST TIME, AMERICA CHAVEZ! America Chavez is a tough, no nonsense super heroine yet one with a genuine desire to help others and do good. She is from an alt reality, the Utopian Parallel. #WomensHistoryMonth 🏳️🌈
This c1925 vessel is by Nampeyo of Hano (Hopi-Tewa, c1859-1942), perhaps the 1st Native American potter nationally recognized by name. She often decorated her pottery with an abstract bird wing design known as the migration pattern. (INTR 01368) #5WomenArtists #WomensHistoryMonth
Beautiful young Rowena Ravenclaw #PotterArt by AnnaBetArt on tumblr (https://t.co/r0GSPdmqTX) 🖤
#WitchesThroughTheAges #NationalWomensHistoryMonth
Tewa artist Maria Martinez (1887-1980) crafted polychrome pots but also experimented with ancient techniques. By the early 1920s she'd revived traditional Pueblo black ware & made further innovations. She created this black-on-red vessel in 1934. (INTR 01426) #WomensHistoryMonth
Day 19: SELINA KYLE aka CATWOMAN! A cat burglar with an on-again, off-again, romantic relationship with Batman. She is shown as a woman who is very strong-willed, independent and morally dubious. Beat up 3 Flash’s once somehow. Soon to be played by Zoe Kravitz #WomensHistoryMonth
Happy Spring! 📷Colored engraving, title page of "A Wreath from the Woods of Carolina," Mary Ann Bryan Mason, 1859. Rare Books Collection. Government & Heritage Library. Mary Ann Bryan Mason, 1st woman in NC to have written & illustrated a children's book. #womenshistorymonth
#WomensHistoryMonth continues at the World's MOST #diverse #shonen #manga #comics anthology, @Saturday_am with SAIGAMI by #Hungarian #femaleartist @saigamiproject. This romantic action series is heating up for a BIG 2020. Download our #mobileapp for FREE. https://t.co/0zolTkBixy
Some women who ill-deserved their reputations, in my view:
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Happy #womenshistorymonth and (late) #internationalwomensday! This year also marks the 100th anniversary of the #19thamendment! ♀️♀️♀️