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<td>Marge Piercy</td>
<td>Easily one of my favorite poets.</td>
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<td>2024-W47</td>
<td>Ariel Crashes A Train</td>
<td>Olivia A. Cole</td>
<td>I suspect, had I exclaimed "Wow! Same!" every time the titular character said something relatable, whoever was in the room with me would have hit me over the head with the book.</td>
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<td>2024-W48</td>
<td>Sisters in Hate</td>
<td>Seyward Darby</td>
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<td>2024-W46</td>
<td>Lungs</td>
<td>Florence + The Machine</td>
<td>The copy I borrowed from MNLink was pretty banged up, I couldn't rip track 5 and 6.</td>
<td>The copy I borrowed from MNLink was pretty banged up; I couldn't rip track 5 and 6.</td>
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<h1>Feminagorism</h1>
<h2>Anarcha-feminism is...</h2>
<blockquote>...a Woman's Revolutionary Movement [that] must not mimic, but destroy, all vestiges of the male-dominated power structure, the State itself - with its whole ancient and dismal apparatus of jails, armies, and armed robbery (taxation); with all its murder; with all of its grotesque and repressive legislation and military attempts, internal and external, to interfere with people's private lives and freely-chosen co-operative ventures.</blockquote>
<p class="right">- <a href="http://libraryqxxiqakubqv3dc2bend2koqsndbwox2johfywcatxie26bsad.onion/library/red-rosia-and-black-maria-anarcho-feminism-two-statements">Red Rosia and Black Maria</a></p>
<h2>Agorism is...</h2>
<blockquote>...the creation of a new society by competing with the State directly, rather than relying on voting, electoral politics, or calls for insurrectionary violence.</blockquote>
<p class="right">- <a href="http://libraryqxxiqakubqv3dc2bend2koqsndbwox2johfywcatxie26bsad.onion/library/derrick-broze-agorism-is-not-anarcho-capitalism">Derrick Broze</a></p>
<p>Feminagorism is a synthesis of the two: the creation of a new post-patriarchal society by women by building an alternative to patriarchy, rather than relying on men to get their shit together and throw wrenches into the system that benefits them. Think of it as a souped-up female separatism.</p>
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<h3>Announcement Box</h3>
<ul>
<li><b>2024-10-25</b>: Postponing the release of <i>Ultrawhite</i> until I get a solid ETA from <a href="https://ugly-truths.com/about">ugly truths publishing collective</a> for their next two volumes. I submitted a few pieces and would like to credit them for first publication.</li>
<li><b>2024-10-01</b>: Earning my KING WAGE at my CLOWN JOB. Call that a hamburger because it is NOT going my way and I am NOT lovin' it right now.</li>
<li><b>2024-11-29</b>: Transitioning to a different department at work over the next few weeks through no fault of my own. <i>Ultrawhite</i> should be out sometime next month; the anthology I wanted to credit is nowhere near completion.</li>
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<title>Books about (anti)consumerism</title>
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<h1>Books about (anti)consumerism</h1>
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<td>Born to Buy</td>
<td>Juliet B. Schor</td>
<td>Academic</td>
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<td class="snippet">High consumer involvement is a significant cause of depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, and psychosomatic complaints. Psychologically healthy children will be made worse off if they become more enmeshed in the culture of getting and spending. Children with emotional problems will be helped if they disengage from the worlds that corporations are constructing for them.</td>
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<td>No Logo</td>
<td>Naomi Klein</td>
<td>Casual</td>
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<td class="snippet">In the name of protecting the brand from dilution, artists and activists who try to engage with the brand as equal partners in their "relationships" are routinely dragged into court for violating trademark, copyright, libel or "brand disparagement" laws - easily abused statutes that form an airtight protective seal around the brand, allowing it to brand us, but prohibiting us from so much as scuffing it.</td>
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<td>Crap</td>
<td>Wendy Woloson</td>
<td>Casual</td>
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<td class="snippet">An object"s relative crappiness lies in the extent to which it offers false hope, was produced to hasten its own obsolescence, has no clear purpose, and/or has no emotional, utilitarian, or market value.</td>
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<td>Affluenza</td>
<td>John de Graaf</td>
<td>Casual</td>
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<td class="snippet">The more real wealth we have - such as friends, skills, libraries, wilderness, and afternoon naps - the less money we need in order to be happy.</td>
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<td>Life Inc.</td>
<td>Douglas Rushkoff</td>
<td>Casual</td>
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<td class="snippet">The efforts may be local, but the effects are global. Every gallon of gas we don't burn is a few bucks less going to exploit someone in the Middle East. Every student we educate properly has more potential to create value for us all. Every plate of chard we grow is another patch of top-soil saved, another square foot of room on a truck, and another nail in the coffin of Big Agra. Every Little League game we coach is an assault on the obesity epidemic, every illiterate adult we teach to read may become one fewer welfare case to fund, and every hour we spend with friends is that many eyeballs fewer glued to the TV. The little things we do are big, all by themselves.</td>
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<td>Culture Jam</td>
<td>Kalle Lasn</td>
<td>Casual</td>
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<td class="snippet">Advertisements are the most prevalent and toxic of the mental pollutants. From the moment your radio alarm sounds in the morning to the wee hours of late-night TV, microjolts of commercial pollution flood into your brain at the rate of about three thousand marketing messages per day. Every day, an estimated 12 billion display ads, 3 million radio commercials, and more than 200,000 TV commercials are dumped into North America's collective unconscious.</td>
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<td>The High Price of Materialism</td>
<td>Tim Kasser</td>
<td>Academic</td>
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<td class="snippet">...we need to feel autonomous and authentically engaged in our behavior. We constantly strive for increased freedom and more opportunities to experience life in a self-directed manner. These needs are most apparent in our strong motivation to express ourselves and to follow our own personal interests. Rather than feeling pressured or burdened by our circumstances, we need to pursue activities that provide us with challenge, interest, and enjoyment. By doing so, we can feel ownership of our own behavior, and thus feel both authentic and autonomous.</td>
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<td>Brandwashed</td>
<td>Martin Lindstrom</td>
<td>Casual</td>
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<td class="snippet">...the minute we're born, we may already be <i>biologically programmed</i> to like the sounds and music we were exposed to in utero.</td>
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<td>The Hacking of the American Mind</td>
<td>Robert Lustig</td>
<td>Casual</td>
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<td class="snippet">Now look at the corn-fed steak. See all that marbling? We love it, because that's where the flavor is. And after grilling, it practically cuts with a butter knife. That marbling is fat in the muscle. That's muscle insulin resistance. That cow had metabolic syndrome; we just happened to slaughter it before it got sick, and now we're consuming the aftereffects in each and every Big Mac.</td>
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<title>Books about cults</title>
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<h1>Books about cults</h1>
<table class="f">
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<td><a href="https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=F841290B5643F4B70212EBCCBFA62E0D">Quiverfull</a></td>
<td><a href="http://127.0.0.1:8888/CHK@ViTUn3WLIdNrav52KHjeG-GwMYr6fq5sMQkFdA4V39g,djlNUuKhhd0R9kZrz0W5Y9N8zo9hsx2041jxdrAz2F0,AAMC--8/Quiverfull_%20Inside%20the%20Christian%20Patriarch%20-%20Kathryn%20Joyce.pdf">Kathryn Joyce</a></td>
<td>Casual</td>
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<td class="snippet">Though all of the sins are condemned, only five are punished with death: male homosexuality, bestiality committed by either a man or a woman, intercourse with menstruating women, and Onan's withdrawal: capital offenses, Provan says, because all are intentionally sterile forms of sex, wasting the sperm of man or animal. Female homosexuality, conversely, is not punished by death because, though wicked, it doesn't spill semen.</td>
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<td><a href="https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=8B2D376D3E534F9D639D11E2DCA82263">fathermothergod</a></td>
<td><a href="http://127.0.0.1:8888/freenet:CHK@JeASr4q~ZqsEBK1aiTBYNYrmncjqS9x1o3mor0OU7Jc,k0Mr6ABahTUYmkHRSXcPv9eDfvISYRAln0Z1rrG2Agw,AAMC--8/fathermothergod%20-%20Lucia%20Greenhouse.epub">Lucia Greenhouse</a></td>
<td>Casual</td>
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<td class="snippet">He said because of Christian Science I haven't needed healings. But how can he even say <em>that</em> if there's no such thing as sickness? If there's no such thing as sickness, there should be no need for healings.</td>
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<td class="snippet">...women and girls who attempt to express themselves online find that their words and images are sexualized or incorporated into a violent or manipulative framework. Women's online presences have often been grotesquely transformed for the purposes of humiliation, shame, and harassment.</td>
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<tr class="info">
<td>Stand Out of Our Light</td>
<td>James Williams</td>
<td>Casual</td>
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<tr>
<td class="snippet">If you wanted to train all of society to be as impulsive and weak-willed as possible, how would you do it? One way would be to invent an impulsivity training device - let's call it an iTrainer - that delivers an endless supply of informational rewards on demand. You'd want to make it small enough to fit in a pocket or purse so people could carry it anywhere they went. The informational rewards it would pipe into their attentional world could be anything, from cute cat photos to tidbits of news that outrage you (because outrage can, after all, be a reward too). To boost its effectiveness, you could endow the iTrainer with rich systems of intelligence and automation so it could adapt to users' behaviors, contexts, and individual quirks in order to get them to spend as much time and attention with it as possible.</td>
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<p>Other relevant writings on the Internet:</p>
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<td><a href="https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=5F93033AFEF08D18458C59C6AC597C72">Big Magic</a></td>
<td>Elizabeth Gilbert</td>
<td><a href="http://127.0.0.1:8888/CHK@4IkmWUvz~Jb8ShEKpYX7o6didH7zFT6jZnvq0Mvs~7A,p-qYgkKAhC~KxEdbWEPqSx2FAmg5vPS64Kz0zsrcw7M,AAMC--8/Big%20Magic%20-%20Elizabeth%20Gilbert.epub">Elizabeth Gilbert</a></td>
<td>Casual</td>
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<td><a href="https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=446A90E9FCFF34286866A460FECBA860">Your Art Will Save Your Life</a></td>
<td>Beth Pickens</td>
<td><a href="http://127.0.0.1:8888/CHK@IWSylbFj5AFc1Ed6cTWFKKOCTyMbXWDkUAVci0PcHlQ,6mqC4hTUgvhn3JgB1kWY0ArUQJOJhLImf6e0mWAMfLY,AAMC--8/Your%20Art%20Will%20Save%20Your%20Life%20-%20Beth%20Pickens.epub">Beth Pickens</a></td>
<td>Casual</td>
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<td><a href="https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=5EA5D2EA2A53ABAC8DE7B5268D293C8C">For Writers Only</a></td>
<td>Sophy Burnham</td>
<td><a href="http://127.0.0.1:8888/CHK@2hdvBW06NU39zKBWB7sARXEdhrsv04pWCgTXmHQCyyU,FemTR8ryl2q9U3Lx18TIpJcBDPmvuzhU9k6ckH5ktK8,AAMC--8/For%20Writers%20Only%20-%20Sophy%20Burnham.epub">Sophy Burnham</a></td>
<td>Casual</td>
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<td><a href="https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=E403628CE37F7542A9EFD5BB7B9E98DB">A Poetry Handbook</a></td>
<td>Mary Oliver</td>
<td><a href="http://127.0.0.1:8888/CHK@CcBDbpYJVW5~ToT7bXRu4rOsXJ6liojz-hL2720VgNs,ig2NmutQaoNGIf8RuD1qwaXQzZ-xjmfZKvlVbzUvCr4,AAMC--8/A%20Poetry%20Handbook%20-%20Mary%20Oliver.epub">Mary Oliver</a></td>
<td>Casual</td>
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<td><a href="https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=F8D7A0C7A21CB8AECAB6AB72FAEC120E">A Writer's Guide to Characterization</a></td>
<td>Victoria Lynn Schmidt</td>
<td><a href="http://127.0.0.1:8888/CHK@BvVLFdXee0d9SDj8p1WK8Clp2pTQBtd1easjbXgA2oc,X2yiEZ2tBFgOJst4k75Ep4-VYF9HZ4RbORxzQDcoTXI,AAMC--8/A%20Writer%27s%20Guide%20to%20Characterization_%20Arch%20-%20Victoria%20Lynn%20Schmidt.epub">Victoria Lynn Schmidt</a></td>
<td>Casual</td>
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<td><a href="https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=F899E05C9173319953201E106915D231">So You Want to Write</a></td>
<td>Marge Piercy</td>
<td><a href="http://127.0.0.1:8888/CHK@s3QOm52cCwcmNKVoC1vq6VcXu92PzjxAm0i~mfAva14,ONmSBxst602551eTWiTLE-uwZKB5KUvblgcWjxvfAHw,AAMC--8/So%20You%20Want%20to%20Write%20-%20Marge%20Piercy.epub">Marge Piercy</a></td>
<td>Casual</td>
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<td><a href="https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=24D2A5E1AA5546D3F8A0377CB587DC55">Steering the Craft</a></td>
<td>Ursula K. Le Guin</td>
<td><a href="http://127.0.0.1:8888/CHK@4eH-4pPrj6SvuqHsTj2G9hAYJTCVYRmLKOaLzReXQ1s,RS2Gr-crBOvGP9GsJc48Q-MPbqVGDCd7pf9LcaD3yy0,AAMC--8/Steering%20the%20Craft_%20A%20Twenty-First%20Century%20-%20Ursula%20K.%20le%20Guin.epub">Ursula K. Le Guin</a></td>
<td>Casual</td>
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<td>How to Suppress Women's Writing</td>
<td><a href="http://127.0.0.1:8888/CHK@PWMTYwKE8bcmtCikF6-o8-ljZBjkYB~AcbbD0P1Ahx0,BIwXQ9P2gY90OqNieaY3-krQXz1yczHLpGq1L3Xp--M,AAMC--8/How%20to%20Suppress%20Women%27s%20Writing%20-%20Joanna%20Russ.pdf">Joanna Russ</a></td>
<td>Academic</td>
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<td class="snippet">. I realized the world, everyone in it practically, will give more and more responsibitity to any woman who will continue to accept it. And when the other responsibilities are too great, her responsibility to herself must go. Or she has to take a thoroughly selfish position and refuse the world, and then accept whatever guilt there is.</td>
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<table class="f">
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<td><a href="https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=5F2CFFF9FF2F92E4057047213FFBB960">45 Master Characters</a></td>
<td>Victoria Lynn Schmidt</td>
<td><a href="http://127.0.0.1:8888/CHK@7gZoMCuZqaFzgRY-H9c1kzYL9AlfHFjYBAo188JvlI8,~Qp5qIDpJQY9hsI9l4S8z9ErJHTRl9UXLeM20W-fE3Q,AAMC--8/45%20Master%20Characters%20-%20Victoria%20Schmidt.epub">Victoria Lynn Schmidt</a></td>
<td>Casual</td>
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<td><a href="https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=2E622FC13A3FD65211A91B28E32CC509">Mastering Suspense, Structure, and Plot</a></td>
<td>Jane Cleland</td>
<td><a href="http://127.0.0.1:8888/CHK@ozqB-88vRBUaEgPg9PKexNLRkrtaC6~pKbpGccRZ9~0,Mj8Q78xlkisoKv7FA7Snh2zyRVqHRCocNx7YSz3g-4A,AAMC--8/Mastering%20Suspense%2C%20Structure%2C%20and%20Plot_%20H%20-%20Jane%20Cleland.epub">Jane Cleland</a></td>
<td>Casual</td>
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<td><a href="https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=C0330F32DCF048481F1E0737D88B0D49">American Originality</a></td>
<td>Louise Gluck</td>
<td><a href="http://127.0.0.1:8888/CHK@gb99IwRsekaSiU8QjxC15qbZCTvTRczcMQTKxr-aVAw,Lqoc02zklPA~g2-ajAYRyv~70lt4Z9wwBguUTsCxyLg,AAMC--8/American%20Originality_%20Essays%20on%20Poetry%20-%20Louise%20Gluck.epub">Louise Gluck</a></td>
<td>Academic</td>
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<td>Write On, Sisters!</td>
<td>Brooke Warner</td>
<td>Casual</td>
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<tr>
<td class="snippet">...all women react to men's energy - and they do so in very different ways. Some women get more assertive, some more submissive. Some try to impress, while others seem to fall into unconscious gender roles or want to blend in to the wallpaper. In my experience, removing the male element seems to create a more neutral field, and often, as a result, women are willing and able to go deeper and get more personal than they otherwise would.</td>
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<td><a href="https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=1CBEAC76AF2A18DD01E8BE4B02D4A70C">Writing as a Path to Awakening</a></td>
<td>Albert DeSilver</td>
<td><a href="http://127.0.0.1:8888/CHK@hWvhIL7VVBcR4ESKbyTtstAtsOvMfWygWi5zNw8zadA,SjXPxgSyTnYDDCkJEgFSPcDw4dxkge-UXe4IhX2H10I,AAMC--8/Writing%20as%20a%20Path%20to%20Awakening_%20A%20Year%20to%20-%20Albert%20DeSilver.epub">Albert DeSilver</a></td>
<td>Casual</td>
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<td><a href="https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=A4C82A657D78190B3C724CE64067BECC">No Plot? No Problem!</a></td>
<td>Chris Baty</td>
<td><a href="http://127.0.0.1:8888/freenet:CHK@NEgzIsssAgG5ju8VaVpNynvRSlVlxDnh6LjJkI3I3ZA,qLqxdHtAe0ohQCihwcfQMvDbNx21MQVVishCMQ4S8lc,AAMC--8/No%20Plot_%20No%20Problem%21_%20A%20Low-Stress%2C%20High-V%20-%20Chris%20Baty.epub">Chris Baty</a></td>
<td>Casual</td>
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<td class="snippet">But sometimes I worry that the power of fiction is the power of conflict, not the power of harmony; that the driving force in fiction is things at odds, not the incredible interdependence seen in nature, as one sinks deeper and deeper into it. I worry that my mind might turn to mush with regard to fiction—that I might lose the edge of conflict and dissent, and the love of it - from loving nature.</td>
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<td>The Point of Poetry</td>
<td>Joe Nutt</td>
<td>Casual</td>
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<td class="snippet">A canvas a chimpanzee has thrown paint at can sell for thousands. I'm still waiting for one to spell 'eek!'</td>
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<td class="snippet">Surrounding him was a handful of NSM members, many of them clearly old enough to qualify for Medicare. "Jeff said he was bringing numbers," Matthew said. "I didn’t realize he meant cumulative age."<br>"We have shields, they have osteoporosis," Miles said.</td>
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<td>Sisters in Hate</td>
<td>Seyward Darby</td>
<td>Casual</td>
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<td class="snippet">EXITING HATE IS similar to embracing it. It involves a search for place and purpose, born of personal need. A person doesn't necessarily exit because a veil lifts and they are suddenly able to see hate for what it is. They leave because it makes sense to them and for them. Corinna seemed to know this, writing once on a blog she kept as Axis Sally, "The reality is, people rarely change their personality or ideals during adulthood, and if they do, it needs to be something they do on their own, for themselves."</td>
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# The big list of women who did things
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Unfinished, obviously.
Last updated: 2024-11-12
Last updated: 2024-11-19
## Art
- [Aphra Behn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphra_Behn): one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing
- [Tina Bell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Bell): pioneer of the "grunge" music genre, before Nirvana
- [Lisa Ben](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Ben): created *Vice Versa*, the first known lesbian publication in North America
- [Anne Bradstreet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Bradstreet): first writer to be published in England's North American colonies
- [Diemoth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diemoth): 12th-century recluse who transcribed at least forty-five manuscripts; notable for her "beautiful handwriting"
- [Emilia Lanier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilia_Lanier): first known woman in England to declare herself a poet
- [Enheduanna](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enheduanna): first known poet
- [Marie de France](https://archive.md/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marie-de-France): earliest known French woman poet
- [Herrad of Landsberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herrad_of_Landsberg): 12th-century nun who wrote an early pictoral encyclopedia, *Hortus deliciarum*, to teach the women in her convent about the sciences of the time
- [Hrotsvitha](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrotsvitha): first female writer (from German-speaking lands) and first female historian
- [Baya Mahieddine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baya_(artist)): surrealist artist whose work was imitated by Picasso
- [Marie de France](https://archive.md/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marie-de-France): earliest known French woman poet
- [Edna St. Vincent Millay](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_St._Vincent_Millay?lang=en): first woman (and second person!) to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- [Julian of Norwich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_of_Norwich): author of *Revelations of Divine Love*, the earliest surviving English-language works attributed to a woman
- [Lucy Terry Prince](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Terry): author of *Bars Fight*, the oldest known work of literature by an African American
- [Lotte Reiniger](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotte_Reiniger): director/writer of the oldest surviving animated feature film, [_The Adventures of Prince Achmed_](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Prince_Achmed)
- [Mary Shelley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley): novelist and pioneer of the science fiction genre of books