Apologies — I nearly lost a lot of this post when the ‘Save Draft’ function stopped working, but was able to transfer all but the first part into a new diary before the ‘Save’ also died there. So I have to post this in Two Parts so you can see the whole thing.
Welcome to WOW2 — Early June! PART ONE
WOW2 is a twice-monthly sister blog to This Week in the War on Women. This edition covers women and events just from June 1. Part TWO covers June 2 through June 15.
The purpose of WOW2 is to learn about and honor women of achievement, including many who’ve been ignored or marginalized in most of the history books, and to mark moments in women’s history. It also serves as a reference archive of women’s history. There are so many more phenomenal women than I ever dreamed of finding, and all too often their stories are almost unknown, even to feminists and scholars.
This is an on-going, evolving project. So many women have been added to the lists over the past three years that even changing the posts from monthly to twice a month, the pages keep getting longer and more unwieldy – an astonishing and wonderful problem to have!
June is Gay and Lesbian Pride Month in the U.S.
In 2000, President Bill Clinton proclaimed the first “Gay and Lesbian Pride Month,” to commemorate the uprising on June 28, 1969, at NYC’s Stonewall Inn that became the catalyst for the modern LGTBQ civil rights movement in America. In 2016, President Obama designated the Stonewall Inn and Christopher Park in Greenwich Village as the Stonewall National Monument.
For the entire previous EARLY JUNE list as of 2018,
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Otherwise, what you’re seeing on this Early JUNE 2019 page are the people and events, or additional information, found since last year.
These trailblazers have a lot to teach us about persistence in the face of overwhelming odds. I hope you will find reclaiming our past as much of an inspiration as I do.
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Early June’s Women Trailblazers and Events in Our History
Note: All images and audios are below the person or event to which they refer
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- June 1, 1310 – Marguerite Porète, French mystic, burned at the stake for heresy in Paris. After a lengthy trial, she refuses to recant her beliefs or remove her book, The Mirror of Simple Souls, from circulation. Condemned for her belief that in a state of contemplative love of God, the soul has no need of Masses or intercession by priests or even prayer. Her book is also suspect because she wrote it in Old French instead of Latin
- June 1, 1660 – Mary Dyer, one of four Quakers known as the Boston Martyrs, is hanged after repeatedly returning to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in protest of Quakers being banned by the Puritans for their ‘heretical’ beliefs
- June 1, 1868 – Annie MacKinnon Fitch born, mathematician, Ph.D., Cornell University (1894), dissertation: “Concomitant Binary Forms in Terms of the Roots.” Wells College Professor of Mathematics (1896-1901), elected to American Mathematical Society (1897). Like most other women of the day, she left teaching when she married Edward Fitch: “It seems to me worthwhile that some women are intelligent about things mathematical even if their own accomplishments are not great.” As a member of American Association for Advancement of Science and the League of Women Voters, she continued to encourage women to take an interest in education and in local, state and national issues
- June 1, 1873 – Elena Alistar-Romanescu born in Bessarabia (Eastern Europe, now part of Moldava and the Ukraine), physician, and one of only two women members of Sfatul Ţării (Moldovan governing council, 1917-1918) under the Russian Federative Republic, just before union with Romania
- June 1, 1908 – Julie Campbell Tatham born, American author of children’s novels and books for adults, which were often about Christian Science; newspaper reporter and short story writer; noted for her Trixie Belden and Ginny Gordon series, both published under the name Julie Campbell
- June 1, 1925 – Dilia Díaz Cisneros born, Venezuelan poet and teacher, founder of three national public schools in Caracas: “Bogotá” (1965), “Los Jardines” (1968), and “Caracciolo Parra León” (1971)
- June 1, 1926 – Marilyn Monroe born as Norma Jean Mortenson, iconic American movie star, actress and singer; after several box office hits, which made her a major “sex symbol,” she founded her own production company, and negotiated more control of the roles she played, most notably in Bus Stop and The Misfits. She was raised mostly in foster homes and an orphanage. She struggled with substance abuse, depression and anxiety; Monroe died in 1962, at the age of 36, from an overdose of barbiturates
- June 1, 1928 – Alberta Daisy Schenck Adams born, civil rights activist for equality of indigenous peoples, before Alaska statehood. Instrumental in passage of the Alaska Civil Rights Act passed by the Territorial Legislature 10 years before the Brown vs. the Board of Education decision
- June 1, 1940 – Katerina Gogou born, Greek poet, author and actress; her poetry is known for its rebellious anarcho-communist content
- June 1, 1942 – Professor Dame Parveen Kumar born in Lahore, when it was still part of British India; British physician, Professor of Medicine and Education at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University; President of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund and of the Medical Women’s Federation; President of the British Medical Association in 2006; one of the founders in 1999 of the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE)
- June 1, 1951 – Lola Young born, Baroness Young of Hornsey, British actress, author and Crossbench peer since 2004; published her book, Fear of the Dark: Race, Gender and Sexuality in Cinema, in 1995; Commissioner in the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (2000-2001); head of culture at the Greater London Authority (2001-2004) for which she was created a life peer in 2004
- June 1, 1974 – Sarah Teather born, British Liberal Democrat politician, Member of Parliament (2003-2010); Minister of State for Children and Families (2010-2012); founder of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Guantanamo Bay; chair of the APPG on Refugees, their 2015 report on immigration detention found it was used excessively, and recommended a limit of 28 days for holding an individual in an immigration removal centre
- June 1, 1981 – Amy Schumer born, stand-up comic, and the creator, co-producer, co-writer and star of the Comedy Central series, Inside Amy Schumer (2013-2016), which won a 2014 Peabody Award, and a 2015 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series. She wrote the screenplay and starred in the movie Trainwreck (2015), and published a best-selling memoir, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, in 2016. She often uses her comedy to address political issues like rape culture and gun control. She was arrested in Washington DC while protesting the nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court of Brett Kavanaugh, who was accused of sexual assault by Professor of Psychology Christine Blasey Ford, and of sexual misconduct by two other women
- June 1, 1993 – Connie Chung becomes the second woman to co-anchor the evening news, 17 years after Barbara Walters became the first in 1976
- June 1, 2015 – Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, Mauritian biodiversity scientist, is designated as the first woman president of Mauritius (2015-2018)
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