Hi All,
I found this article written by the hard-hitting journalists over at BuzzFeed a few weeks ago. It highlights important female activists, suffragists, and other cool women who are not necessarily taught in school curriculum's. I read more about them after seeing this article and I was moved by these women, their stories, and their activism.
Check them out here: https://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahjewell/shoutout-to-zenobia?utm_term=.qda1ZjVAx#.boArAwgoR
One thing that I liked in reading this article is that a) all of these came from the Buzzfeed Community, so these are people who, just like us, are trying to disseminate the names of history's forgotten women heroes one person at a time-- and b) so many of these women are women of color or women from non-Western traditions. Recognizing that many of history's famous women whose names are even difficult for popular memory to produce—people like Marie Curie, Rosalind Franklin, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mary Shelley—are all from Europe or North America is an important step. Recovering many of these women, who played similarly notable roles in the fields of science, government, military, etc. in a non-Western context is great for not only expanding our knowledge of their significant stories, but expanding our knowledge of non-Western cultures in general.
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