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1784: First Woman to Fly
On June 4, 1784, at the age of 19, a French opera singer named Élisabeth Thible became the first woman aeronaut in history by ascending in a hot air balloon in Lyon. A painter named M. Fleuranthad had been scheduled … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th Century, Art, Aviation, Élisabeth Thible, Balloons, Flight, France, Opera, Printmaking, Women
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1943: Day Shift
Francis Criss: Day Shift (1943)
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Tagged 1940's, 20th Century, Art, Factories, Francis Criss, Labor, Painting, USA, Women, WWII
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1910: Portrait of a Woman
Portrait of a woman by an unknown photographer; Senegal, c. 1910. Her hair style is called nguuka. “Created using black wool to produce two symmetrical voluminous spheres held by a textile on top of the head, this hairdo became popular … Continue reading
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Tagged 1910's, Africa, Photography, Portraits, Senegal, Women
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1776: The Resurrection of the Universal Friend
Born in Rhode Island in 1752, Jemima Wilkinson would become, at the age of 25, the first American-born woman to found a religious group—following what she claimed was her death and resurrection. She abandoned her birth name, asked to be … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th Century, Art, Gender, Jemima Wilkinson, LGBT, Painting, Portraits, Quakers, Religion, The Universal Friend, USA, Women
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1998: Qajar
Shadi Ghadrian: Qajar #3 (1998) (source)
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Tagged 1990's, 20th Century, Art, Iran, Photography, Portraits, Shadi Ghadrian, Women
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1964: Bastard
Women cheat, women suffer. They used to be attractive—so they smooth away their age. I shout mine aloud because I was never attractive, because I shall always have my baby hair. It’s taken me two and a half hours to … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960's, 2010's, 20th Century, 21st Century, Art, Autobiography, Books, France, Gertrude Stein, Jean Genet, LGBT, Painting, Prose, Richard Baker, USA, Violette Leduc, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, Women
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2015: When My Father Died
Susanna Hesselberg: When My Father Died It Was Like a Whole Library Had Burned Down (2015) (source)
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Tagged 2010's, 21st Century, Art, Books, Death, Fathers, Libraries, Norway, Sculpture, Susanna Hesselberg, Women
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