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In honor of Women’s History Month 2012, I’ve selected one woman to profile every day from March 1st – March 31st, 2012. Rose Wilder Lane: journalist, novelist, political theorist, and travel writer; according to Wikipedia, both she and Isabel Paterson were considered contemporaries of Zora Neale Hurston. Lane publicly disavowed her youthful socialism in a [...]
Mormon Mommy Blogs: I can’t help it, I love all their DIY know how. Trader Joe’s Mango Chile Fat Free Fruit Floes: O.M.G. I wasn’t expecting them to be anywhere near as spicy as they are, but they pack a spicy, icy wallop. YOU HAVE NO IDEA. Pinterest: Shut up. This does not make me [...]
In honor of Women’s History Month 2012, I’ve selected one woman to profile every day from March 1st – March 31st, 2012. Isabel Paterson: Canadian-American journalist, novelist, political philosopher, and literary critic; according to Wikipedia, both she and Rose Wilder Lane were considered contemporaries of Zora Neale Hurston. The economic importance Paterson would later attach [...]
In honor of Women’s History Month 2012, I’ve selected one woman to profile every day from March 1st – March 31st, 2012. Zora Neale Hurston: Author, folklorist, and anthropologist For this reason, I regard the ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court as insulting rather than honoring my race. Since the days of the never-to-be-sufficiently-deplored Reconstruction, [...]
In honor of Women’s History Month 2012, I’ve selected one woman to profile every day from March 1st – March 31st, 2012. Helen Suzman: South African anti-Apartheid activist and libertarian leaning politician In South Africa they knew the difference between liberals and leftists. Plenty of leftists and communists opposed the National Party and its apartheid [...]
In honor of Women’s History Month 2012, I’ve selected one woman to profile every day from March 1st – March 31st, 2012. Betty Dodson: Sex educator, artist, and author Dodson had the first one-woman show of erotic art in ’68 in nyc followed by three others. She produced and presented the first feminist slide show [...]
In honor of Women’s History Month 2012, I’ve selected one woman to profile every day from March 1st – March 31st, 2012. Sophie Scholl: Anti-war activist & Third Reich resister Sophia Scholl (1921 – 1943) was a German student, active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany. She was convicted of high [...]
In honor of Women’s History Month 2012, I’ve selected one woman to profile every day from March 1st – March 31st, 2012. Septima Clark: Educator and civil rights activist Septima Poinsette Clark had that type of inspirational effect on most of those whom she taught; many of Septima Clark’s students had that type of effect [...]
In honor of Women’s History Month 2012, I’ve selected one woman to profile every day from March 1st – March 31st, 2012. Norma McCorvey: “Jane Roe” (plaintiff in Roe v. Wade) Once an abortion-rights supporter, the 50-year-old McCorvey has switched sides: She’s now a vocal anti-abortion activist. She has started a ministry called Roe No [...]
In honor of Women’s History Month 2012, I’ve selected one woman to profile every day from March 1st – March 31st, 2012. Lynn Kinsky: Co-founder of Reason magazine, libertarian activist/candidate Kinsky: reason took up all of my free time. Bob was more efficient at working than I was. I got writer’s block. I wound up [...]
