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This last week of Women’s month I am focusing on women’s health and how women helped change it by becoming doctors themselves as in the first part. The second story I leaned into with my own struggles with an early
Emily Wilson: The First Woman to Translate Homer in English For four centuries, English readers believed they were reading Homer. But they were really reading the expectations of centuries of male translators. In 2017, Emily Wilson, a professor at the
There are many reasons for this story that resonate with me. To begin with, my ancestry has a connection to Belgium that I’m about to research; the branch I have very little knowledge of. I like these women and somehow,
In 1871, Charles Darwin asserted—under the authority of science—that women were intellectually inferior to men. Four years later, a woman answered him so thoroughly that he never publicly replied. Her name was Antoinette Brown Blackwell. I picked this article for
Women’s Month 2026! Curiosity and Diligence prove she has already conquered the world. I love these short, sweet stories of what can be accomplished when you want answers. And noise sensitivity is a real thing. As an Empath it’s something
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