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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 · 48m
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Faith Ringgold - Infinite Women
Ringgold's work as an artist, an activist, and an educator has influenced both the art world and communities beyond the art world. Her founding or co-founding of many arts organizations focused on iss...
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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Whilst heavily pregnant Carlotta Bollée translated for husband French early car manufacturer Léon Bollée & aviation pioneer Wilbur Wright when they rebuilt Wright Flyer @ Bollée factory in 1908. Flew with Wright #OTD 8 Oct 1908. After Léon died, ran factory www.magnificentwomen.co.uk/engineer-of-...
Carlotta Bollée in B&W early C20th photo wearing a hat and leg 'o mutton sleeves #WomenInSTEM #WomensHistory  #HistSTM #HistSTEM
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 4h
You can read more about Keckley and watch my short video about three African-American designers (including her) at www.infinite-women.com/women/elizab...
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Elizabeth Keckley - Infinite Women
Born into slavery, Elizabeth Keckley’s story is one of perseverance and ingenuity in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. As an African American businesswoman and philanthropist, Keckley defied ...
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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 08/10/2026
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90 Her groundbreaking work included leading the team that programmed the first computers that took humans to the moon. news.mit.edu/2026/margare... #womeninstem
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 15h
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Corita Kent - Infinite Women
During her lifetime, and especially in the twenty years following her death, Kent's work never quite worked its way into the mainstream. Being a female artist and a nun, she did not fit into the detac...
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 08/10/2026
You can read more about her and listen to my podcast episode with curator Simeran Maxwell at www.infinite-women.com/women/sonia-...
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Sonia Delaunay - Infinite Women
Delaunay's textile designs extended the range of her influence into fashion, home decor and the theater. Her ability to introduce art into regular life by creating and wearing clothing, and living in ...
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 08/10/2026
"For artist Minyoung Kim, who centers black felines in her eccentric compositions, the fascination comes down to “the contrast between how ordinary and how weird they are”" www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/08/miny...
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Mischievous Cats Rule in Minyoung Kim's Affectionately Quirky Paintings
When it comes to felines, the artist revels in "the contrast between how ordinary and how weird they are."
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 07/10/2026
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Florence B Seibert - Infinite Women
American biochemist who developed a groundbreaking procedure that led to a reliable tuberculosis test (TB test), used to detect the potentially deadly virus in infants, children and adults worldwide. ...
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 06/10/2026
You can read more about her and listen to my podcast episode with curator Emily Sullivan at www.infinite-women.com/women/louise...
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Louise Bourgeois - Infinite Women
Louise Joséphine Bourgeois was a French-American artist, best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art.
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 05/10/2026
You can read more about Flanner at www.infinite-women.com/women/janet-... and Abbott at www.infinite-women.com/women/bereni...
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Janet Flanner - Infinite Women
Janet Flanner, who decried the personal “I,” was a technically skilled writer who found diagramming sentences and Parisian newspapers influential.
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 05/10/2026
Today, on Dinomaury...
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 05/10/2026
This week on the podcast, Dr Llewellyn Negrin is an Adjunct senior researcher in the School of Creative and Performing Arts at @utas.edu.au who studies fashion as an embodied artform. Listen: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/... Transcript: www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/u...
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Dr Llewellyn Negrin on fashion as embodied art by Infinite Women
Dr Llewellyn Negrin is an Adjunct senior researcher in the School of Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Tasmania who studies fashion as an embodied artform.She was involved in the Costu...
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 04/10/2026
You can read more about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/kathry...
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Dr Kathryn D Sullivan - Infinite Women
American geologist, former NASA astronaut, and oceanographer
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 04/10/2026
You can find more than 100 such women at www.infinite-women.com/category/aer...
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Aeronautics Archives - Infinite Women
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 02/10/2026
You can read more about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/annie-...
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Annie Leibovitz - Infinite Women
Annie Leibovitz is known as a celebrity portrait photographer, and has become just as famous as the people she photographs. A master at capturing popular culture icons in dramatic and innovative ways,...
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 02/10/2026
Looking at Jack and Rose and they're like, "one of you may die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make"
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 02/10/2026
Behold! This glorious monstrosity of a cookie has Oreo worked into the dough, with mini M&Ms and Nutella filling. It's also approximately three servings per cookie. Piccolina is my favorite gelato in Melbourne, but this is a lot easier to take on the train. From Daniel's Donuts.
A cookie in a paper bag with several bites taken
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 30/09/2026
"Titled A Place to Be Held, Liebana’s show revolves around a fantastical, Eden-like garden exploding with an extravaganza of rainbows, flowers, clouds, cosmic phenomena, and more." www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/09/mari...
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Edge-to-Edge Splendor Fills Maria Yolanda Liebana's Buoyant Paintings
Tarot, ancient mythologies, pop culture, and personal narrative converge in the NYC-based artist's maximal works.
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 30/09/2026
You can read more about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/amrita...
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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 · 30/09/2026
You can read more about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/jessie...
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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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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 30/09/2026
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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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 · 30/09/2026
Is Kinmo plotting world domination?
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 30/09/2026
"This *is* my happy face"
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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
You can read more about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/consta...
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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
You can read more about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/bereni...
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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 · 26/09/2026
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 26/09/2026
Mummy GIFs do not disappoint
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The Mummy Apocalypse Quote
Alt: Oded Fehr in The Mummy with the caption "You have started a chain reaction that could being about the next apocalypse"
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 26/09/2026
Kinmo seems to have very definite opinions about both you and the horse you rode in on
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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
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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
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 25/09/2026
A rough translation of those meows:
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How Dare You? Offended Reaction Meme
Alt: Mindy Kaling in The Office with the caption, I have a lot of questions. Number one, how dare you?
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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
I have a serious demand avoidance issue even if it's an activity I enjoy and I'm the one doing the demanding. The more I "have" to do something, generally the less I want to do it, and I don't want to get to the point where I hate or dread writing - it's meant to be enjoyable, damn it!
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