Margaret M. Kirk

HerStory
Olga Smirnova

March 20, 2022

“A line has been drawn…”

Olga Smirnova was one of the most talented ballerina’s in the Bolshoi Ballet Company in Russia.

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Yulia Zdanovskaya

March 13, 2022

Brilliant Young Mathematician, Murdered

I find one of the ways I can deal with it in a more positive fashion is to honor some of those beautiful, brave people from the Ukraine.

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Woman trying to escape violence with her beloved pet

March 8, 2022

International Women’s Day 2022

Today is the International Day of the Woman, during Woman’s History month. It feels more important than ever to celebrate women.

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Lesya Ukrainka

February 27, 2022

Celebrating Indomitable Spirits

The recent days of terror in the Ukraine have touched me deeply. A peaceful country that has been strategically and ruthlessly attacked because they are valuable.

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Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke

February 20, 2022

The Best General

Mary Ann searched daily for the wounded and when darkness fell, she listened at the edges of the battlefields for the groans of wounded men that were overlooked.

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Edith Renfrow Smith

February 13, 2022

“Life has been wonderful.”

She was the first African American woman to graduate from Grinnell College, in Grinnell, Iowa. Who was this woman?

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Justina Ford

February 6, 2022

“The Lady Doctor”

She made house calls, first in a horse and buggy, then a bicycle and eventually in a car, specializing on obstetrics, gynecology, pediatrics and family medicine.

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Mary Fields

January 30, 2022

Badass Woman with a Heart of Gold

Mary Fields was born a plantation slave in Hickman County, Tennessee, sometime in 1832 in the home of Judge Edmund Dunne and his wife Josephine who had five children.

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Sarah Ragle Weddington

January 23, 2022

“The Great Austin Matriarchy.”

She was determined to go to college, though such was not done, in those days. It got very interesting along about here.

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all-women class from Little Red River Cree Nation

January 2, 2022

Confidence, the Key to Success!

An all-women class from Little Red River Cree Nation in northern Alberta graduated recently with their heavy equipment operator certificates.

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