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Mexico City, Mexico

Antimonumentas and Antimonumentos

These "antimonuments" confront the Mexican authorities by memorializing the most troubling events in the country's modern history.
Oaxaca, Mexico

‘El Mural Que Debió Ser’ (‘The Mural That Should’ve Been’)

A modern feminist movement has brought to life the mural that machismo once denied to artist María Izquierdo.
London, England

Tomb of Mary Wollstonecraft

Visit the grave of a famous feminist author and the mother of Mary Shelley.
A bar in Philadelphia that still keeps its “Ladies Entrance” sign.
bars

The Feminist History Behind the Ladies' Entrance

There's a story behind these hidden pub snugs and saloon doors.
Diana Hubbell March 13, 2023
restaurants

Podcast: Bloodroot Feminist Restaurant

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team September 29, 2022
Nyamirambo market
List

14 Places Created By and For Women

From economic empowerment to professional wrestling, these spaces reflect the breadth of women’s experiences.
Michelle Cassidy March 21, 2022
Women of the Indigenous Purépecha community, here shown in line for local elections, have always taken an active role in the politics of Cherán, Mexico. Local legend even tells of a woman named Eréndira, who stole horses from Spanish invaders and led a rebellion against the colonialists.
literature

14 Women Activists Whose Names You Should Know

These feminist editors, swimming suffragists, and renegade cooks reshaped the world.
Sarah Durn March 3, 2022
List

12 Extraordinary Women-Run Restaurants Around the World

From feminism to civil rights, there's more on their menus than delicious food.
Sam O'Brien March 1, 2022
Lorton, Virginia

Turning Point Suffragist Memorial

The first national memorial to honor all women suffragists stands on land where suffragists were once imprisoned.
Yasmeen Mjalli in the store
Ramallah, Palestine

Nöl Collective

The feminist fashion collective centering Palestinian craftsmanship and radical transparency.
The finished cottage loaf, left, with a simple version of <em>boeuf en daube</em>.
food

Virginia Woolf and the Complexities of Cottage Loaf

The famous feminist’s love for baking helps us understand her relationship with food, class, and mental illness.
Reina Gattuso September 24, 2021
The SHE garden
Winnsboro, South Carolina

Christy Buchanan's SHE Garden & Gallery

A whimsical folk art environment where you can lose yourself in the many colors of joy, beauty, and creativity.
Alice Paul's "Jailed for Freedom" and "Silent Sentinel" pins.
design

These Powerful Pins Honored Suffragists Who Were 'Jailed for Freedom'

A century ago, women picketing the White House were beaten and imprisoned for demanding their right to vote.
Reina Gattuso September 14, 2020
<em>The Art of Cookery Made Plain And Easy</em>, a 1777 cookbook included in the database, "which far exceeds any Thing of the Kind yet published," was popular in Britain and the American colonies. Its author, Hannah Glasse, was one of the first famous female cookbook authors.
food

A Database of 5,000 Historical Cookbooks Is Now Online, and You Can Help Improve It

It took Barbara Ketcham Wheaton more than 50 years to compile The Sifter.
Reina Gattuso August 13, 2020
Belen, New Mexico

Through the Flower Art Space

A home base for Judy Chicago, one of America's leading radical feminist artists.
Meet the Jackson Town Council of 1920-23, aka the "petticoat rulers": (from left) Mae Deloney, Rose Crabtree, Mayor Grace Miller, Faustina Haight, Genevieve Van Vleck.
wild west

Remembering When Women Ruled a Wild West Town

In 1920 the "bad-man rendezvous" of Jackson, Wyoming, elected an all-female government. Will it be another hundred years till that happens again?
Amelia Mularz June 5, 2020
Detail shot of Rita's quilt. The hexagons are decorated with the outlines of the 50 U.S. states, along with their official birds and animals.
art

The Surprising Complexity of an Unfinished American Quilt

A community of feminist crafters grapples with a patriotic quilt that a 99-year-old nurse left behind.
Claire Voon December 12, 2019
Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum
Adams, Massachusetts

Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum

The hero of the women's suffrage movement birth home is now a museum dedicated to her legacy.