Influential Women We Can't Forget

[Guest lydiahardwood]

Happy International Women's Day! ❤️

To celebrate, let's create a giant thread of women throughout history, old and recent, who may not have received the recognition they deserved. The first person to spring to mind for me is Rosalind Franklin. She discovered a photograph that showed a double Helix, which was the turning point in Watson and Crick's research into DNA. They received a Nobel prize for their discovery, she received just a passing reference.

 

Also Juno Mac. I've just finished her book that she wrote with Molly Smith: Revolting Prostitutes. That, alongside her Ted Talk, has helped educate me on sex worker rights and activism. ❤️ 

[Allie Zeon 2905]

Love her speech 😃

[Guest lydiahardwood]

I'd like to add Martha P Johnson to this list for her dedication to Trans and SWer activism. ❤️ 

[Guest lydiahardwood]

And Lola Davina who wrote Thriving In Sex Work. 

[Guest lydiahardwood]

Claudette Colvin who refused to give up her seat for a white woman - and arrested for it - 9 months before Rosa Parks did.

[East Coast Kimmy 1062]

 

Halifax’s Own — Internationally Known 

A.Ada 💕

 

More Class Than Flash

https://halifaxmag.com/blog/ada-mccallum-the-life-of-a-famous-halifax-madam/

 

https://www.historicacanada.ca/content/biography-series/ada-mccallum

[waterat 20911]

Have to give a shout out to Gwen Jacobs for many reasons..... one of them being the line I love to use on my American friends: 'You may have the right to bear arms but we have the right to bare breasts'

[waterat 20911]

Also wish to acknowledge Lise Meitner who recognized and discovered nuclear fission and yet her make colleague received the Nobel price. Her work is a fascinating story and deserves to be fully recognized on International Women's Day.

[waterat 20911]

And while I'm on a science geek run here I also admire the work of Cecelia Payne who figured out that the solar spectrum and stellar spectra in general indicated stars are mostly made up of hydrogen. Her ground breaking insights and analyses were dismissed by many of her male professors at Cambridge and Harvard and despite this she went on to be a pioneer of modern astronomy.

[Phaedrus 209521]

8 minutes ago, waterat said:

Also wish to acknowledge Lise Meitner

Okay, you beat me to it, but only because I got sidetracked reading her wikipedia page while looking for a photo! The other issue she had was that being Austrian and Jewish in the 30s was... troublesome, for obvious reasons, and her work was badly derailed by having to flee to Sweden in 1938.

So I'll give a shout-out to Jocelyn Bell: she discovered the first known pulsar, but the Nobel went to her (male, needless to say) supervisor.