Tagged: POTD

Shoutout to Nadia Comăneci, the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics this day in 1976.

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Shout-out to Nettie Stevens, an American geneticist who discovered and described sex differences in chromosomes.

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Happy birthday to artist and feminist Frida Kahlo. You were and continue to be magic – no maybes about it.

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HBD to Anna Arnold Hedgeman, civil rights leader and first woman to serve on a NYC mayor’s cabinet!

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Shoutout to the Van Buren sisters, who rode across the country on motorcycles by themselves 100 years ago.

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HBD to Julia Clifford Lathrop, the first woman to ever head a U.S. federal bureau!

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Happy birthday to Crystal Bird Fauset, the first African-American woman to become a state legislator.

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Happy b-day to Pearl Witherington, leader of the British SOE during WWII, a network of elite spies and saboteurs.

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Shoutout to Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, who became the first woman in space on June 16th, 1963.

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In memory of those killed or injured in Saturday’s Orlando massacre targeting LGBT folk.

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Gigi Hadid is looking sultry, sleek, and slick-backed for the summer.

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Happy birthday Marilyn! Here’s to continuing to defy gravity!

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