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@allthingsisheretoo.bsky.social

#𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘉𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘯 #𝘞𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘊𝘢𝘯 #𝘞𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘏𝘢𝘷𝘦 #𝘞𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘭 #𝘎𝘦𝘵𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘞𝘦𝘕𝘦𝘦𝘥

"In my heart, I think a woman has two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist."
GLORIA STEINEM

September 3, 2026 at 8:22 PM

YNotWomen

@ynotwomen.bsky.social

Jolinde Vlaeyen new PhD #education #science #STEM #WomenInSTEM #CelebratingWomen #woman #WomenCan

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Jolinde Vlaeyen @jolindevlaeyen.bsky.social · Apr 22

I am happy to share that, after 4.5 years, I successfully defended my PhD and I am now officially Dr. Jolinde Vlaeyen 🥳! This could not have been possible without all the help from my colleagues, friends and family, as well as my Advisory Committee - so grateful to everyone!
#PhDone

Me with my PhD hat made by my colleagues, which is full of things I love

Me in the room with my first presentation slide open, the title being "development of independence and turn-taking in wild mother-infant bonobos"

April 22, 2026 at 10:34 PM

YNotWomen

@ynotwomen.bsky.social

Florence Migga #author The Summer Scrapbook #book #booksky #CelebratingWomen #BlackWomen #WomenCan

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Florence Migga @florencemigga.bsky.social · May 5

Today I am a published author.

THE SUMMER SCRAPBOOK is now available everywhere.

Thank you to @stormliterary.bsky.social, @heathercashman.bsky.social, @lernerbooks.bsky.social, and @amyarielfitz.bsky.social for helping to make the dream I’ve had since I could remember come true.

May 5, 2026 at 7:11 PM

YNotWomen

@ynotwomen.bsky.social

Dr Skylar Grayson, astrophysics #science #STEM #WomenInSTEM #astronomy #physics #woman
#CelebratingWomen #WomenCan #space

Dr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · May 6

Little update to my bio…today I defended my PhD in astrophysics and I’m officially Dr. Skylar!!!!

May 7, 2026 at 5:20 PM

Nancy Georges 🇦🇺

@nancygeorges.bsky.social

How very sad. In the next 113 years women will be ruling. This will not happen like this again.
#womencan #auspol

January 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM

Danasinspired

@danasinspired.bsky.social

👉 Women always wait until they’re overprepared to get in the game. Now is not the time for perfectionism.
#womencan #thefutureisfemale #resist #womanstrong #smashthepatriarchy youtu.be/tKyEW-wJh9A?...

Women need to launch at 50%

YouTube video by danasinspired

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February 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM

Comiczette, (Ms J.T. 😻 ) fam check ya Vote cards plez-update 'em

@lovexlove4real.bsky.social

... a sudden Farewell. #XochitlAndBabyGirll say: Rest In Power, Gloria.

The fearless woman, and editor of MS. Magazine> Gloria Steinam...
#MSMagazine #GloriaSteinam.
#MarchingWomen #WomensMarch #WomenCan #RestInPower

September 3, 2026 at 1:02 PM

YNotWomen

@ynotwomen.bsky.social

Atima Omara #author of #book The Instigators: How Black Women Have Been Essential To American #Democracy (And What We Can Learn From Them)
#booksky #CelebratingWomen #BlackWomen #WomenCan #politics #leadership

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · May 5

A childhood dream realized 🥹

Today my book is in stores. I I had hoped The Instigators: How Black Women Have Been Essential To American Democracy (And What We Can Learn From Them) would be published under different circumstances….👀

The message is still relevant. Buy @ www.theinstigatorsbook.com

Pictured: A dark brown skinned black woman, with straightened hair in a bob that is smiling . Wearing a gold yellow jacket and a pink shirt holding three copies of her book: The Instigators.

May 5, 2026 at 7:06 PM

YNotWomen

@ynotwomen.bsky.social

Hedy Lamarr #movie star and #inventor of frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology during World War II to prevent enemy jamming of radio-controlled torpedoes, basis of modern #bluetooth, #GPS, #wifi.
#CelebratingWomen #woman #STEM #science #WomenInSTEM #WomenCan

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Gaius Faelis Juvenalis @juvenalisdacat.bsky.social · Apr 21

just a reminder we all stand on the shoulders of those who came before us,

April 21, 2026 at 9:46 PM

BayBayFriend

@baybayfriend.bsky.social

Kicking Butt in Ways That Matter

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Email: hello david, hoping your are well. i hope you remember suzanne?? who wouldn't. her son just created a new kind of space heater and most importantly she is
FIVORCED!!!!!! i can tell her to expect your call if you want. i remember the nights with the innertubes....... and you two had a lot in common......
how is the business? when alex turns 18 do you think he wants to start working for you? or amanda too, i truly think womencan do anything at all. women scientists are viewing just as many molecules now as men, i remember reading.
i am doing great, jessica is kicking butt in varsity volleyball (women!!) and i have kicked the butt of my gum habit (woo!).

Reply:
Good afternoon, Terrence!
Lam not David so I am thinking you sent this email to me by mistake but I still smiled when I read it. My name is Grassy and I also think women can do anything.
Something I learned recently is that when she says, "I'm fine," that's only the title of the book of feeling she's writing in her mind.

December 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM

YNotWomen

@ynotwomen.bsky.social

Cali Overs, HS student #AZ #activist #WomenCan
#CelebratingWomen #woman

Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · May 18

"She had envisioned the end of her senior year as a celebration. Instead, she has spent months waging a stubborn campaign against the planned ICE detention center near her school..."

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

Instead of proms and parties, she spent senior year fighting an ICE warehouse

Cali Overs spent her senior year lobbying local, state and federal officials after Homeland Security bought a warehouse near her Arizona high school.

www.washingtonpost.com

May 18, 2026 at 6:44 PM

Nancy Georges 🇦🇺

@nancygeorges.bsky.social

STOP SAYING 'THE GIRLS ARE FIGHTING'.
It's 2 petty weak men.
Women would not do this!
💪🏼🚺🦋😍

#womencan #womendo #girlsarefighting #stopsayinggirlsarefighting

June 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM

YNotWomen

@ynotwomen.bsky.social

DeRicki Johnson’s grandmother #WomenCan
#CelebratingWomen #woman #BlackWomen #StrongWomen

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DeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson.bsky.social · Apr 27

My Grams
Was first #tactician
I ever
Came to know

I watched
Her wrangle, “Yes”
From a World
That told her “No”

She taught me
To make “Something”
From “Nothing”
In my bag

And, that we
Were never “Poor”
Just “Broke”
When nought we had
#vss365 #Family #Wisdom

April 28, 2026 at 10:26 PM

YNotWomen

@ynotwomen.bsky.social

Elmina Wilson, many engineering firsts, great achievements #US #engineer #WomenCan #WomenInSTEM #science #CelebratingWomen

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · Jun 4

Elmina Wilson structural #engineer 1st US woman to earn 4 yr #civilengineering degree, 1st master's degree in field & 1st woman professor #Engineering @iowastateu.bsky.social In #New York helped design Flatiron Building & Met Life Tower d #OTD 4 Jun 1918 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmina_... #WomenInSTEM

Elmina Wilson in sepia head and shoulders photo later C19th hair pulled back, curly fringe, lace jabot at neck #WomenInSTEM

June 5, 2026 at 7:19 PM

YNotWomen

@ynotwomen.bsky.social

Shawna Thomas TV executive
#producer #journalist #media #business #CelebratingWomen #womencan

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · Apr 22

Another defection from Bari Weiss' CBS News. variety.com/2026/tv/news/shaw...

Shawna Thomas Jumps to MS NOW After Running ‘CBS Mornings’

Shawna Thomas Jumps to MS NOW After Running 'CBS Mornings'

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April 22, 2026 at 10:36 PM

Nancy Georges 🇦🇺

@nancygeorges.bsky.social

Absolutely. Until now there wasn’t a decent comparison we could all hold up!!
I love that @mariannedgarbudde.bsky.social touched people’s humanity, regardless of faith.
That’s very powerful.
#womencan

January 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM

YNotWomen

@ynotwomen.bsky.social

Chicago: women's suffrage
#murals #CelebratingWomen #womencan #vote #elections #streetart #urbanart #art #artsky

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Shani 🫧 (Bluesky hates Palestinians) @mom4medicare4all.blacksky.app · Apr 21

www.wbez.org/arts/2026/04...

Women’s suffrage murals that started in Chicago are growing across U.S.

The three murals in the Loop pop up regularly as backdrops on social media.

www.wbez.org

April 22, 2026 at 10:35 PM

YNotWomen

@ynotwomen.bsky.social

Gisèle Pelicot #survivor #fighter #rape #domesticabuse
#CelebratingWomen #woman #France #WomenFightBack #WomenCan

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Trisha Elliott @trishaelliott.bsky.social · Apr 29

A fascinating and amazing book, beautifully written and read.

I wasn't sure how I would react to it, but I have been honoured to read Gisèle's story, and ultimately uplifted by it.

#BookSky

Cover of book “A Hymn to Life” by Gisèle Pelicot.

April 29, 2026 at 7:30 PM

YNotWomen

@ynotwomen.bsky.social

Siouxsie Sioux, Chrissie Hynde, Debbie Harry, Shirley Manson #singer #songwriter #music #MusicSky
#CelebratingWomen #woman #WomenCan

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May 23, 2026 at 8:22 PM

YNotWomen

@ynotwomen.bsky.social

Nadiia Surovtseva #diplomat #professor #feminist #journalist #prisoner #CelebratingWomen #woman #WomenCan #SlavaUkraini
a remarkable life - not a moment wasted

maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · May 1

a high-ranking Ukrainian diplomat by 21, a professor by 24, a prominent European feminist and journalist by 26, and a forced labor prisoner in a russian slave camp by 31. in my new newsletter i share a remarkable story of resistance and survival by Nadiia Surovtseva

May 1, 2026 at 3:38 PM

Comiczette, (Ms J.T. 😻 ) fam check ya Vote cards plez-update 'em

@lovexlove4real.bsky.social

Mathematical deduction by Mr. Tea Pain. Cool.and Good 😎 #GirlsCan #WomenCan

May 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM

funnybunnykitty.bsky.social

@funnybunnykitty.bsky.social

**
My old town had an almost all volunteer fire dept, with one retired chief.
The youth group, which refused to allow girls had, 3 of the 5 boys starting fires. At a town meeting, the Mom of one girl said "you made a mistake, now fix it."
They did.
One became a professional fireman.
#WomenCan

Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · Jun 7

This is happens often enough that there's a Wikipedia entry

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefig...

June 7, 2026 at 11:23 PM

YNotWomen

@ynotwomen.bsky.social

Ida B Wells #BlackWomen #CelebratingWomen #journalist #activist #EqualRights #crusader #integration #WomenCan

Jerry Mitchell @jmitchellnews.bsky.social · May 4

#OnThisDay in 1884, crusading journalist Ida B. Wells was riding a train from Memphis to Woodstock TN, when a white railroad conductor ordered her to move to another car. She refused. Dragged off the train, she sued the railroad and won $500.
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