Word Weavers: Josephine Starrs and Virginia Barratt
Josephine Starrs and Virginia Barratt were among the creators of the VNS, an Australian feminist art collective born in the early days of the world wide web in the 1990s. The group is credited with co...
6 Touko 20255min
Word Weavers: Alice Walker
Alice Walker (1944-present) is novelist, poet and essayist, best known for her novel The Color Purple, published in 1982, which won the Pulitzer Prize and made Alice the first Black woman to win the ...
5 Touko 20257min
Word Weavers: Sylvia Wright
Sylvia Wright (c. 1916-1981) was a writer and humorist who coined the term “Mondegreen,” a noun used to describe the result of mishearing a word for another word or phrase. During her career she was a...
2 Touko 20254min
Word Weavers: Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison (1931-2019) was a groundbreaking writer and the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. Her works, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved—w...
2 Touko 20258min
Cultivators: Janaki Ammal
E. K. Janaki Ammal (1897-1984) was a botanist and cytogenecist, referred to as India's first woman botanist. She gained expertise in crossbreeding hybrid species of plants while studying at the Univer...
30 Huhti 202510min
Cultivators: Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores
Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores (1971-2016) was a Honduran environmental activist who spent decades leading various land and water struggles in western Honduras. In 1993 she helped found and coordinate th...
29 Huhti 20257min
Cultivators: Rahibai Soma Popere
Rahibai Soma Popere (1964 - present) is an Indian farmer known for her work preserving indigenous seed varieties and promoting sustainable agriculture. She is often referred to as the “Seed Mother” fo...
28 Huhti 20255min
Cultivators: Aino Henssen
Aino Henssen (1925-2011) was a globally recognized lichenologist. Her interest in the organism advanced the study and understanding of lichen and actinomycete taxonomy. She wrote over 100 papers on li...
25 Huhti 20259min
