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Allison Tyra: Creator of a database of 10,000+ women's biographies, author of Uncredited: Women's Overlooked, Misattributed & Stolen Work and The View from the Hill (infinite-women.com/books), cat lady, AuDHD. She/her www.infinite-women.com

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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 14h
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Amrita Sher-Gil - Infinite Women
Amrita Sher-Gil was an Indian-Hungarian painter and is considered one of the most important painters of modern India
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 15h
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Jessie Tarbox Beals - Infinite Women
America's first female news photographer; The Buffalo Inquirer and The Courier hired her as a staff photographer in 1902.
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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 18h
Emma Sulkowicz attended Columbia University. She graduated in 2015. Columbia has been protecting rapists for a long time.
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 29/09/2026
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Althea Gibson - Infinite Women
Pioneering African American tennis player and golfer who broke through racial barriers in both sports during a time when opportunities for Black athletes were severely limited.
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 29/09/2026
You can also read about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/floren..., courtesy of @ninabake2.bsky.social
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Florence Violet McKenzie - Infinite Women
Australia’s first female electrical engineer, founder of a telegraphy school and initiator of the WRANS.
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 29/09/2026
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Beulah Louise Henry - Infinite Women
With 49 patents, Beulah Louise Henry was one of the most prolific inventors of the 20th century. Her typewriters, toys, sewing machines, and women’s apparel made Henry a famous and beloved figure acro...
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 29/09/2026
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Constance Baker Motley - Infinite Women
Constance Baker Motley was a trailblazing lawyer and judge whose contributions to both Black history and women's history left a permanent mark on American society.
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 29/09/2026
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Berenice Abbott - Infinite Women
American photographer renowned for her black-and-white photography of New York City's architecture and urban design.
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thank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Stephen King: this is Carrie White. Everyone bullies her because she's fat and frumpy-looking. This is a defining factor of her social existence Everyone, ever, adapting CARRIE for film: so the first thing we're gonna need is a really pretty, thin, conventionally attractive girl, who is skinny
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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Tarot Reader Girl - Optical Illusion Skull“ by Olga Beliaeva
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 28/09/2026
This week on the podcast: @gmunrocook.bsky.social, author of Building the #WNBA: From Dunking Divas to Political Leaders, joins us to discuss the history, evolution and impact of the league. Listen: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/... Transcript: www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/u...
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Dr. Georgia Munro-Cook on the WNBA by Infinite Women
Dr. Georgia Munro-Cook, a research fellow in the Centre for Social and Cultural Research at Griffith University, is the author of Building the WNBA: From Dunking Divas to Political Leaders. She joins ...
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 26/09/2026
Visits to public libraries around Ireland have increased by two million in the last two years. New figures show that almost 16 million visits were made to Ireland's libraries in 2025, compared with nearly 14 million in 2023
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Public library visits increased by two million nationwide
Visits to public libraries around Ireland have increased by two million in the last two years, new figures show as National Public Libraries Open Day takes place nationwide.
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 26/09/2026
You can read more, or listen to my podcast episode about her, at www.infinite-women.com/women/shirle...
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Shirley Chisholm - Infinite Women
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm was the first African American woman in Congress (1968) and the first woman and African American to seek the nomination for president of the United States from one of t...
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:
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Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people
Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 25/09/2026
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Margaret Rose Preston - Infinite Women
Margaret Preston was a leading painter, printmaker and designer.
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Lottie Dod is the youngest-ever Wimbledon singles champion at age 15. + 5-time Wimbledon women's singles champ + Won the British Ladies Amateur #Golf Championship 1904 + Played for the England women's national field hockey team + Silver medal in #archery, 1908 Olympics Born #OTD in 1871. #tennis
A black-and-white portrait of Lottie Dod (Charlotte Dod, 1871–1960), the legendary English athlete who remains the youngest singles champion in Wimbledon history, winning her first title in 1887 at age 15. Captured from the waist up, Dod stands at a slight three-quarter angle facing right while looking directly forward. Her expression is calm, earnest, and determined, featuring a soft mouth and steady, dark eyes. Her dark hair is pinned up neatly under a rigid, light-colored cloth cap with a short brim, sitting straight on her head. She is dressed in traditional Victorian tennis attire, wearing a structured, high-collared white blouse with voluminous leg-of-mutton sleeves and pleated detailing across the chest. Her waist is tightly cinched by a broad, dark  belt that fastens over her dark skirt. In the lower right foreground, she cradles a vintage wooden tennis racket with a distinct asymmetric, flat-topped frame and tight natural gut strings, which extends diagonally across her body. The background is a soft, mottled gray studio backdrop, drawing all focus to her silhouette. The lighting is soft and even, highlighting the texture of her clothing and her complexion. The composition captures the classic, grainy texture of late-19th-century photography, creating a dignified, historic mood that underscores her pioneering status as an early sports icon.
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 25/09/2026
You can read more about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/wangar...
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Wangari Maathai - Infinite Women
Kenyan environmental activist
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 25/09/2026
You can read more about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/paulin...
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Pauline Boty - Infinite Women
Unlike her few other female contemporaries, such as Bridget Riley, Boty refused to to negate her feminine side and was not overly concerned with seeming serious, intellectual or dispassionate at the e...
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 25/09/2026
You can read a biography of Jeanie Dicks www.infinite-women.com/women/jeanie... written by @politicdormouse.bsky.social for @ninabake2.bsky.social 's Magnificent Women in Engineering and shared with permission ☺️
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Jeanie Dicks - Infinite Women
Jeanie Dicks was responsible for the first permanent electrification of Winchester Cathedral in 1934.
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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A woman was drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked to members of a fraternity. Two of the men involved were expelled. Five were given the opportunity to mitigate suspension by *writing an essay.* The dozens of other men who knew this was happening and said nothing? You already know the answer.
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'm not reading this because I canceled my subscription ages ago, but my first thought on seeing it is that it's just fucking misogyny, b/c iced coffee, esp flavored, feels very female-coded, like seeing a candidate with one automatically brands them as an unserious woman or (horrors) feminine man.
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 25/09/2026
"From varicolored surges inside to the vast paintings on the ground and nearby outdoor walls, “It Wasn’t Us” is an expansive artwork on the site of a former railway building." www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/09/kath...
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A Prismatic Installation with Giant, Abstract Forms Sweeps Across a Berlin Museum
Katharina Grosse’s latest installation transcends the boundaries of the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart as it erupts into a sprawling kaleidoscope. From varicolored surges inside to the vast ...
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 24/09/2026
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Tamara de Lempicka - Infinite Women
In both her life and her art, Tamara de Lempicka offered a new image of the modern woman: part jazz-age femme fatale, libertine and social climber, and part canny self-promoter, self-styled experiment...
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 24/09/2026
"In tender paper collages featuring woodland creatures in relief, Kanako Abe imagines dreamlike scenes reminiscent of childhood narratives and folk tales." www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/09/kana...
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Woodland Creatures Inhabit an Imaginary World in Kanako Abe's Intricate Paper Cuts
Paper artist Kanako Abe imagines dreamlike scenes reminiscent of childhood narratives and folk tales.
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 24/09/2026
🎶Every bite you take, I'll be watching you🎶
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 24/09/2026
You can read more about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/ida-no..., including an excerpt from my book Uncredited: Women’s Overlooked, Misattributed, and Stolen Work: www.infinite-women.com/books/
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Ida Noddack - Infinite Women
German chemist and physicist who proposed the idea of nuclear fission
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 24/09/2026
You can read more about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/france...
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper - Infinite Women
As a poet, author, and lecturer, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was a household name in the nineteenth century. Not only was she the first African American woman to publish a short story, but she was al...
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 24/09/2026
You can read more about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/emily-... courtesy of @ninabake2.bsky.social
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Emily Warren Roebling - Infinite Women
Completed the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge after her engineer husband was incapacitated
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 23/09/2026
"Using a cool color palette tinged with blues, the Japanese artist paints ethereal, introspective portraits of women enveloped in movement" www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/09/miho...
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Flora and Fauna Intertwine with Strands of Hair in Miho Hirano's Dreamy Portraits
Wrapped within the piecey curls surrounding Miho Hirano’s subjects are twigs, vine fragments, and clusters of pink blossoms. Using a cool color palette tinged with blues, the Japanese artist paints et...
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 23/09/2026
You can read more about her and listen to my podcast episode with biographer Dr Alison Parker at www.infinite-women.com/women/mary-c...
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Mary Church Terrell - Infinite Women
Mary Eliza Church Terrell was a well-known African American activist who championed racial equality and women’s suffrage in the late 19th and early 20th century.
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 22/09/2026
You can read more about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/junko-...
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Junko Tabei - Infinite Women
Renowned Japanese mountaineer, author, and teacher.
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 22/09/2026
Bruce the cat sat on my chest this morning, all four paws balanced on one boob. So I've had my meowmmogram for the year.
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 21/09/2026
Proving yet again that Queensland is Australia's Florida www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Man banned from Oz Comic-Con after allegedly biting artist
A man has been banned from Oz Comic-Con after allegedly biting one of the artists on Sunday afternoon.
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 21/09/2026
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Eunice Hunton Carter - Infinite Women
One of New York's first female African-American lawyers and one of the first African-American prosecutors in the United States.
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 21/09/2026
This week on the podcast, Dr Céline Leboeuf is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at Florida International University and author of the new book, The Tyranny of Thinness: Understanding and Resisting the Pressure to Be Skinny. Listen now: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/... 1/2
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Dr Céline Leboeuf on the "tyranny of thinness" by Infinite Women
Dr Céline Leboeuf is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at Florida International University and author of the new book, The Tyranny of Thinness: Understanding and Resisting the Pressure to Be Skinny...
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 20/09/2026
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Sunita Williams - Infinite Women
American astronaut
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 20/09/2026
"Gravitating toward symmetry and restricted palettes, Gentry paints rhythmic pieces that adhere to an underlying grid. Every painting is the result of multiple layers of thinned acrylic, which build into subtle gradients that dissipate across the canvas." www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/09/robe...
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Symmetry and Biomorphic Forms Characterize Roberta Gentry's Sensual Paintings
Roberta Gentry is interested in the relationship between the constructed and the natural, cultivating abstract, biomorphic forms.
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 19/09/2026
You can read more about her and listen to my podcast episode with NGA curator Lucina Ward on her at www.infinite-women.com/women/kiki-s...
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Kiki Smith - Infinite Women
Kiki Smith was one of the first artists to distinguish figurative work within the art world after years of abstraction and Minimalism had dominated the scene. She is considered a pioneer in restoring ...
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 19/09/2026
Honestly, a pirate probably wouldn't go read about pirates - but you can! www.infinite-women.com/category/pir...
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Pirate Archives - Infinite Women
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 19/09/2026
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Nadia Boulanger - Infinite Women
French composer, conductor and composition teacher Nadia Boulanger was a hugely influential figure in twentieth century music.
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 19/09/2026
You can read more about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/marion...
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Marion Post Wolcott - Infinite Women
Marion Post Wolcott is best known for the more than 9,000 photographs she produced for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) from 1938 to 1942.
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 19/09/2026
You can also read about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/france... courtesy of @ninabake2.bsky.social
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Dr Frances Heywood - Infinite Women
In the 1930s Frances started the research for which she is best known and which led to her PhD, on the characteristics of the tin-based alloys used in making typeface.
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 19/09/2026
You can read more about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/elizab..., excerpted from my book The View from the Hill: Women Who Made Their Mark After 40 (www.infinite-women.com/books/)
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Elizabeth Stern - Infinite Women
From the 1920s to the 2000s, the incidence of cervical cancers in the United States dropped by at least 70 percent, thanks in no small part to pathologist Elizabeth Stern.
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 19/09/2026
She clung to the idea that embroidery could serve as both a physical & symbolic link between people from different backgrounds, ideologies & religions & launched The Red Dress," a collaborative project featuring embroideries by 100s of artisans around the world www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/12/the-...
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380 Artists, 51 Countries, 14 Years: A Community Embroidery Project Connects Women Around the Globe
Now complete, "The Red Dress" is a collaborative project featuring embroideries by hundreds of artisans around the world.
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 18/09/2026
You can read more about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/emily-... and in my book The View from the Hill: Women Who Made Their Mark After 40 www.infinite-women.com/books/
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Emily Kame Kngwarreye - Infinite Women
Emily Kame Kngwarreye was a leading Indigenous Australian artist.
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 18/09/2026
You can read more about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/zora-n... and in my book The View from the Hill: Women Who Made Their Mark After 40 www.infinite-women.com/books/
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Zora Neale Hurston - Infinite Women
Harlem Renaissaince writer and anthropologist. Hurston’s novels, short stories, and plays often depicted African American life in the South. Her work in anthropology examined black folklore. Hurston i...
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 18/09/2026
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Dr Susan La Flesche Picotte - Infinite Women
Pioneering Native American doctor from the Omaha tribe. She made history as the first Indigenous woman to earn a medical degree, and she tirelessly campaigned for public health and land rights for the...
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Dictionary of Irish Biography @dib.ie · 18/09/2026
#DIBLives 'A lot of nincompoops.' Monaghan-born suffragist Mary Agnes Lee (d. #OTD 1909) helped found the South Australian Women's Suffrage League. Frustrated by the lack of progress, she kept campaigning and in 1894 South Australian women won the parliamentary vote. www.dib.ie/biography/le...
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 18/09/2026
"For her most recent body of work on view now in Ascent at Roq La Rue, the artist meanders into a more mystical side of history, infused with a tinge of punk and, somewhat paradoxically, a meditative calm." www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/09/debr...
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In 'Ascent,' Debra Baxter Explores the Power in Vulnerability, Mysticism, and Time
Baxter uses materials derived from the earth that are explicitly solid, evoking an intimate tension between vulnerability and strength.
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 18/09/2026
Tino looks like he can handling his own killing
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