#herstory — Public Fediverse posts

Good Morning! It is Tuesday, October 13. #OTD in 1862, Mary Kingsley was born. She was an English ethnographer, scientific writer, and explorer whose travels throughout West Africa and writing helped shape European perceptions of both African cultures and British colonialism. #Herstory #WomeninSTEM

Good Morning! It is Monday, October 12. #OTD in 1864, Kamini Roy was born. She was a Bengali poet, social worker and feminist in British India. She was the first woman honors graduate in British India. She said that her children are her living poems. #Herstory

#FundstückGeschichte #HerStory Gertrude Stein
https://www.ardsounds.de/episode/urn:ard:episode:c42ba6513bcb3e36/

Good Morning! It is Sunday, October 11. #OTD in 1888 Harriet Boyd Hawes, was born. She was a pioneering American archaeologist, nurse, relief worker, and professor. She is uncovered a Minoan settlement and palace on the Aegean island of Crete. #Herstory #WomeninSTEM

Good Morning! It is Saturday, October 10. #OTD in 1870, Louise Mack was born. She was an Australian poet, journalist and novelist. She is most known for her writings and her involvement in World War I in 1914 as the first woman war correspondent in Belgium. #Herstory

Good Morning! It is Friday, October 9. #OTD in 1823, Mary Ann Shadd was born. She was an American-Canadian anti-slavery activist, journalist, publisher, teacher, and lawyer. She was the first black woman publisher in North America and the first woman publisher in Canada. #Herstory

Good Morning! It is Thursday, October 8. #OTD in 1899, Dorothy Donaldson Buchana was born. She was a Scottish civil engineer, and the first female member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, successfully passing the institution's admission examination in 1927. #Herstory #WomeninSTEM

Good Morning! It is Wednesday, October 7. #OTD in 1907, Helen MacInnes was born. She was a Scottish-American writer of espionage novels. MacInnes wrote 21 espionage thrillers, four of which were later adapted as films. Her first book, Above Suspicion (1941), was an immediate hit. #Herstory

Good Morning! It is Tuesday, October 6. #OTD in 1917, Fannie Lou Hamer was born. She was a Black voting and women's rights activist, community organizer, and a leader in the civil rights movement. She was the co-founder and vice-chair of the Freedom Democratic Party. #Herstory

Good Morning! It is Monday, October 5. #OTD in 1858, Helen Churchill Candee was born. She was an American author, journalist, interior decorator, feminist, and geographer. Today, she is best known as a survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912, and as a travel writer. #Herstory

Good Morning! It is Sunday, October 4. #OTD in 1896, Dorothy Lawrence was born. She was an English journalist who posed as a male soldier to report from the front line during World War I. In 1915, she went to France, where she managed to obtain a military uniform and a false ID #Herstory

Life Magazine featured Simone Segouin in its 4 September 1944 issue. Photos of the freedom fighter after the fall of Chartres, show her posing with her submachine gun. Simone Segoin died Feb 21, 2023 at age 97. (2/2)

#WW2 #Resistance #Antifa #Herstory #France

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/simone-segouin-18-year-old-french-resistance-fighter-1944/

Oct 3: On this date in 1925, Simone Segouin (nom de guerre Nicole Minet) was born in Chartres, France. She served in the French Resistance in the FTP (Francs-tireurs et Partisans), a communist group fighting the Nazis. Her wartime exploits included derailing German trains, blowing up bridges, and capturing 25 German prisoners as an 18 y/o during the fall of Chartres. After the war she worked as a pediatric nurse in Chartres. (1/2)

#WW2 #Resistance #Antifa #Herstory #France

Good Morning! It is Sat., October 3. #OTD in 1906, Natalie Savage Carlson was born. She was a 20th-century American writer of children's books. Carlson published her first story at *age eight* on the children's page of the Baltimore Sunday Sun. #Herstory

Neues von Team @legendeverloren : Wann haben Frauen in Deutschland erstmals Fußball gespielt? Die ehrliche Antwort: Wir wissen es nicht genau. Die Anfänge waren aber anders, als oft erzählt. Die Geschichte des dt. Fußballs der Frauen bis 1990 gibt's ab heute in 4 Teilen jeden Freitag auf der Bolztribüne @news.

Zum Text: https://bolztribuene.de/2026/10/02/vergessene-pionierinnen-die-verborgene-geschichte-des-deutschen-frauenfussballs-1900-1945-teil-1/

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#Fußball #Geschichte #Herstory

Good Morning! It is Friday, October 2. #OTD in 1895, Ruth Cheney Streeter was born. She was an American military officer who was the first director of the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve. In 1943, she became the first woman to attain the rank of major in the USMC. #Herstory

Good Morning! It is Thursday, October 1. #OTD in 1912, Kathleen Ollerenshaw was born. She was a British mathematician and politician who was Lord Mayor of Manchester. Her best known mathematical work, was Most-Perfect Pandiagonal Magic Squares: Construction & Enumeration (1998). #Herstory #WomeninSTEM

Good Morning! It is Wednesday September 30. #OTD In 1901, Thelma Terry was born. She was an American bandleader and bassist during the 1920s &1930s. She led 'Thelma Terry and Her Playboys' and was the first American woman to lead a notable jazz orchestra as an instrumentalist. #Herstory

Good Morning! It is Tuesday September 29. #OTD In 1848, Caroline Ardelia Yale was born. She was an American educator of the deaf and longtime principal of the Clarke School for the Deaf. Yale also established a pioneering teacher-training department at Clarke #Herstory #WomeninSTEM

Good Morning! It is Monday September 28. #OTD In 1856, Kate Douglas Wiggin was born. She was an American educator, author and composer. She wrote children's stories, notably the classic Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878. #Herstory

Good Morning! It is Sunday September 27. #OTD In 1871, Grazia Deledda was born. She was also known in Sardinian language as Gràssia or Gràtzia Deledda. She was an Italian writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 "for her idealistically inspired writings..." #Herstory

Good Morning! It is Saturday September 26. #OTD In 1876, Edith Abbott was born. She was an American economist, statistician, social worker, educator, and author. She was born in Nebraska and was a pioneer in the profession of social work with an educational background in econ. #Herstory #WomeninSTEM

Good Morning! It is Friday September 25. #OTD In 1903, Olive Ann Beech was born. She was an American aerospace businesswoman who was the co-founder, president, and chairwoman of the Beech Aircraft Corp. She founded the company in 1932 with her husband, Walter Beech, and 3 others. #Herstory

Sep 24, 1942: Special Operations Executive agents Lise de Baissac and Andrée Borrel are the first female SOE agents to be parachuted into France on this date in 1942. Borrel was executed in July 1944 at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp; de Baissac survived the war and died at age 98 on 2004.

#WW2 #SOE #FSection #Herstory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_de_Baissac

Good Morning! It is Thursday September 24. #OTD In 1825, Frances E. Watkins Harper was born. She was an American abolitionist, suffragist, poet, teacher, public speaker, and writer. Beginning in 1845, she was one of the first Black women to be published in the United States. #Herstory

Good Morning! It is Wednesday September 23. #OTD In 1863, Mary Church Terrell was born. She was one of the first Black women to earn a college degree, and became known as a national activist for civil rights and suffrage. She taught High School Latin in Washington DC. #Herstory #WomeninSTEM

Good Morning! It is Tuesday September 22. #OTD In 1904, Ellen Church was born. She was the first female flight attendant. A trained nurse and *pilot*, she convinced Boeing that using nurses as flight-stewardesses would increase safety & help show passengers that flying was safe. #Herstory

Good Morning! It is Monday September 21. #OTD In 1917, Phyllis Nicolson was born. She was a British mathematician and physicist best known for her work on the Crank–Nicolson method together with John Crank. The method, is based on the trapezoidal rule #Herstory #WomeninSTEM