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@nickysfacts.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 11:31 PM

All hail Aphrodite Areia, the feminine goddess of war!🏺🚺⚔️
#AncientGreece #WomensHistory #Sparta #History

Facts, myths, and history on Aphrodite Areia, the cult that worshipped Aphrodite as a war goddess!⚔️

@krymsynreine.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 5:16 PM

A medieval tale has Aristotle ridden by the dominatrix Phyllis through the garden. This is an Aquamanile for ritual water pouring, 14th-15th century CE, Netherlands
#feminism #womenshistory #medieval #Phyllis #Aristotle

@lorraineelizab6.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 5:37 AM

🎨Illustrations inside/front by Matthew Jackson IG: @mtthwjcksn_arts 📷Me as a girl! #saints #IrishSaints #religion #book #author #Christian #Christianity #Catholic #medievalsky #hagiography #church #ChurchHistory #women #WomensHistory #herstory #amwriting #WritersLift #Irish #ireland #DayOfTheGirl

@sueyoungmusic.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 6:26 PM

Best book mail ever! My author copies just showed up! I am thrilled with COURAGEOUS COWGIRLS. #picturebook #kidlit #womenshistory

@wisarchive.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 3:52 PM

Leela Moolgaokar was born 110 years ago today. Beginning in the 1950s, she was a driving force behind the development of blood transfusion services in India, and also worked at the highest levels in the drive to eradicate leprosy in the nation. She passed in 1992.

#WomenInSTEM #WomensHistory ⚕️

@lahistory.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 3:20 PM

Oct 10, 1911: California voters passed the amendment giving women the right to vote (nine years before #19thAmendment). www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ce...

Suffragists celebrating in Los Angeles, via the Los Angeles Herald (Oct 1911): cdnc.ucr.edu?a=d&d=LAH191... #suffrage #womenshistory

A screen capture of the Los Angeles Herald (October 13, 1911) shows the front page above the fold. The central b/w photo is a group of cheering suffragists at Choral Hall (in the now-gone Philharmonic Auditorium) just after the Herald staffer brought news that “suffrage had surely won.” Initial reports on the evening of October 10th didn’t look good for the suffrage amendment in California. Suffrage lost in San Francisco and barely won in Los Angeles. Suffragists began to brace themselves as they prepared for a new campaign. It was the votes from California’s rural and inland counties that tipped the scales. According to one of the headlines, “Majorities Rolled up By Inland Counties.”

@jdawnink.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 9:15 PM

October is Women's History Month. #WomensHistoryMonth #WomensHistory #girlpower #illustration #design #jdawnink

@wisarchive.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 4:05 PM

Celebrating the 125th anniversary of chemical engineer Germaine Benoit's birth! She was a key force behind the development of the anti-malarial drugs orsanine and rhodoquine, and throughout her career carried out research on hydrazine compounds and piperazine.

#WomenInSTEM #WomensHistory #ChemSky 🧪

@stemfem.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 1:40 PM

10/9/1884 — b. Helene Deutsch, Austrian-American psychoanalyst, psychotherapist, author. The first psychoanalyst to specialize in women; the first person to write a book abt female #psychology (1928). Wrote 2 vol, “The Psychology of Women”(1944) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #PsychSky #SciSky #HistSci

@feministory.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 1:25 PM

10/9/1863 — b. Elaine Goodale Eastman, American poet, author, educator, activist. “Sister to the Sioux”; co-founder of the #IndianRights Association (1882). Published poetry, journals + books; teacher at the Hampton Normal & Agricultural Inst (1882) #womenshistory #womenwriters #FirstNations #EduSky

Elaine Goodale Eastman seated reading a book

@alphakitty.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 12:55 PM

10/9/1830 — b. Harriet Goodhue Hosmer, American artist. #Neoclassical sculptor; renowned as the premier female sculptor of the day; the first wmn sculptor to earn a substantial living from her craft. Noted sculptures: Puck at the Smithsonian + Zenobia at MOMA #womenshistory #womenartists #womensart