“With guns, you can kill terrorists,
with education you can kill terrorism.”–Malala Yousafzai,
youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner
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WOW2 is a four-times-a-month sister blog to This Week in the War on Women. This edition covers stories from October 8 through October 15.
The next installment of WOW2 will be on Saturday, October 15, 2022.
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“We live in the world … the whole world.
Separating us, isolating us, that’s always
been their weapon. Isolation kills
generations. It has no future.”–Toni Morrison,
African-American author;
Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner
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"Literature ought to join minds together …
turning ignorance into mutual understanding"–Ding Ling, pen name of Jiang Bigzhi,
Chinese author and activist. Her work was
banned. She served years at manual labor.
China “rehabilitated” her in 1979.
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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.
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.
THIS WEEK IN THE WAR ON WOMEN
will post shortly, so be sure to go there next, and
catch up on the latest dispatches from the frontlines.