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“Teacher of the Year Mandy Manning wears Women’s March, #transgender rights badges during Trump meeting https://buff.ly/2FEMg6C via @thehill”

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Mary Hallaren (1907-2005) was the first woman to officially join the US Army. Other women had joined before on several occasions, but only by pretending to be men.

She began working as a teacher, but in 1942 joined the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAC). By 1947, she achieved the rank of colonel, and became director of the WAC. She received several medals, such as the Legion of Merit and the Bronze Star, for her service.

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For us to showcase this character who is a core member of the ensemble, who’s not going anywhere, who is happy, who has friends, a chosen family that she loves, and who is successful in her life, is something I never saw growing up on television. I never thought a happy ending could be for me. And now I am playing someone who is out, who is bi, and who is going to succeed. There’s a beautiful line that Captain Holt, played by Andre Braugher, says in the show. He says, “Every time someone says who they are, it makes the world a better, more interesting place.”

Stephanie Beatriz accepts the GLAAD Media Awards for Brooklyn Nine-Nine

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“We need to stand with ALL women. We need to stand with trans women. Undocumented women. Elderly women … NO ONE left behind.” #PowerToThePolls #WomensMarch2018

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“And I think when you have suicide rates going up, when you have the bullying, when you have maybe even the drug usage because people are not feeling comfortable being their unique selves, because of the societal norms and the pressures of conforming or because they feel like they have to erase parts of them because they’re not socially accepted, I felt like through my truth it could help other people walk in their truth and breathe a little easier.”

Janelle Monáe: I’m A Proud Queer Woman

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Born in 1825 to free African American parents, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was a prolific journalist and poet as well as an abolitionist and suffragist. In “Songs for the People,” she imagines poetry filling “the world with peace.”

“This final poem in the celebration of National Poetry Month returns to a poet from the nineteenth century and to language that may feel more remote and unfamiliar. Unlike Amy Lowell’s poem from last week, which focuses on the personal and the intimate, “Songs for the People” by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper is a public poem with a powerful message that resonates with activists today.

Born in 1825 in Baltimore, Maryland, to free African American parents, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was a prolific journalist and poet as well as an abolitionist and suffragist. In “Songs for the People,” Harper invokes the idea of the poet as a song-maker and imagines making “songs for the weary,” for children and “for the poor and aged.” Harper imagines the alchemy of poetry and song as ending war and crime, making people’s” hearts tender” and filling “the world with peace.”

Read the full piece and the poems here

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Emily Stowe (1831-1903) was the first woman to practice medicine in Canada. In addition, she was a strong activist for women’s rights.

She graduated with first-class honours from the Normal School for Upper Canada in 1854, after being refused from other institutions on account of her gender. She became the first female principal of a public school in Upper Canada, but later went on to study medicine in the United States since no Canadian medical school would accept female students. She finally managed to open her own medical practice in Toronto in 1867.