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As a way of finding a light when so much of the daily news is disturbing, I am choosing to focus on inspiration from amazing women who changed the world for the better through activism, art, comedy, environmentalism, music, science, writing, and more.

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Wyrd Women @wyrdwomen.bsky.social · 27d

The wyrd sisters spin the web of wyrd and weave the loom of life, they do not thereby determine it … the wyrd sisters simply express the will of wyrd. And so do we. ~ Brian Bates

Wyrd Women @wyrdwomen.bsky.social · 8d

The 1990 film Henry and June starred Maria de Medeiros as Anais Nin and Uma Thurman as Henry Miller’s wife June was based on her unexpurgated diary from 1931 – 1932.

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Henry & June (1990) Trailer

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Wyrd Women @wyrdwomen.bsky.social · 8d

Books & Diaries 📚

Diaries — The Anaïs Nin Foundation

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Wyrd Women @wyrdwomen.bsky.social · 8d

"Bells of Atlantis" (Ian Hugo, 1952)

"Bells of Atlantis" (Ian Hugo, 1952)

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Wyrd Women @wyrdwomen.bsky.social · 8d

Recording of Anaïs reading

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Anais Nin reads from "The Diary of Anais Nin" : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive

French-Cuban Author Anais Nin (1903-1977) reads excerpts from her memoirs The Diary of Anais Nin which she began writing at the age of 11and continued to...

Wyrd Women @wyrdwomen.bsky.social · 8d

So Anaïs Nin Was Also an Electro “DJ”

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So Anaïs Nin Was Also an Electro "DJ"

Anaïs Nin is our favorite breed of artist: the kind who just can’t be bound to a single era, movement, or category. Diarist? Definitely. Muse? To many, most notably American novelist Henry Miller. Yet...

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Wyrd Women @wyrdwomen.bsky.social · 8d

Anais Nin finds herself and others in Paris | The Erotic Adventures of Anais Nin

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Anais Nin finds herself and others in Paris | The Erotic Adventures of Anais Nin

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Wyrd Women @wyrdwomen.bsky.social · 8d

Anaïs Nin was a French-Cuban-American diarist, essayist, novelist and writer of short stories and erotica.

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Wyrd Women @wyrdwomen.bsky.social · 9d

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Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge sustains people, wildlife, and fish in the northeastern corner of Alaska, a vast landscape of rich cultural traditions and thriving ecological diversity. It is located ...

Wyrd Women @wyrdwomen.bsky.social · 9d

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is in northeastern Alaska, U.S. on Gwich’in land. It is the largest national wildlife refuge in the country, and includes polar bears, grizzly bears, black bears, moose, caribou, wolves, eagles, lynx, wolverine, marten, beaver and migratory birds.

Wyrd Women @wyrdwomen.bsky.social · 9d

Margaret Murie’s Testimony before Congress in defense of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

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ARCTIC REFUGE | Margaret Murie's Testimony Before Congress

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Wyrd Women @wyrdwomen.bsky.social · 9d

Margaret Murie

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Wyrd Women @wyrdwomen.bsky.social · 9d

Margaret Thomas “Mardy” Murie was a naturalist, author, adventurer, and conservationist instrumental in creating the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

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Mardy Murie ’23 fought to create the Arctic National Wildlife Range.

Wyrd Women @wyrdwomen.bsky.social · 11d

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: Bio

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin - Biography, Facts and Pictures

Lived 1900 - 1979. Cecilia Payne discovered that stars are made largely of the two lightest chemical elements - hydrogen and helium. She made her discovery while in graduate school. At first nobody be...

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Wyrd Women @wyrdwomen.bsky.social · 11d

La mujer en la ceincia: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (in Spanish)

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La mujer en la ciencia: Cecilia Payne

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Wyrd Women @wyrdwomen.bsky.social · 11d

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Cosmos A Spacetime Odyssey

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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Cosmos A Spacetime Odyssey episode 8 part 4

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Wyrd Women @wyrdwomen.bsky.social · 11d

Stuff You Missed In History Class podcast: Cecilia Payne Payne-Gaposchkin:

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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

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Wyrd Women @wyrdwomen.bsky.social · 11d

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was a astronomer & astrophysicist who discovered what makes up stars. ✨

In her 1925 doctoral thesis, she proposed that stars were composed primarily of hydrogen & helium. Her work was foundational to modern astrophysics.

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Wyrd Women @wyrdwomen.bsky.social · 16d

About Beatrice Wood

Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts | About Beatrice Wood - Page 1

Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts, Ojai, California

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Wyrd Women @wyrdwomen.bsky.social · 16d

Beatrice Wood Remembered

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Beatrice Wood Remembers: Dada, Duchamp. Love & Tango

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Wyrd Women @wyrdwomen.bsky.social · 16d

Beatrice Wood: The Mama of Dada

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Meet the Mama of Dada

Beatrice Wood, 1908 We need to talk about Beatrice Wood. The last surviving member of the American Dada movement, the ceramicist, the artist, the writer, the actress, the lover, and let's not leave...

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Wyrd Women @wyrdwomen.bsky.social · 16d

5 Famous Works by Beatrice Wood You Should Know

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5 Famous Works by Beatrice Wood You Should Know | TheCollector

Beatrice Wood was an American avant-garde potter. Her signature experimental sculptural techniques established her as the Mama of Dada.

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Wyrd Women @wyrdwomen.bsky.social · 16d

Beatrice Wood was an American artist and studio potter involved in the Dada movement in the United States; she founded and edited The Blind Man and Rongwrong magazines in New York City with French artist Marcel Duchamp and writer Henri-Pierre Roché in 1917.

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Wyrd Women @wyrdwomen.bsky.social · 25d

Berenice Abbott: Documenting Science

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Berenice Abbott: Documenting Science

Berenice Abbott's Documenting Science was a partnership with MIT for use in school textbooks. Its subject and design elements are as timeless as nature and…

Wyrd Women @wyrdwomen.bsky.social · 25d

Berenice Abbott: American Artist

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Berenice Abbott Photography, Bio, Ideas

Abbott is well-known for her series on New York City that was not only a topographical documentation but also sociological: a study of the city and its people.

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Wyrd Women @wyrdwomen.bsky.social · 25d

Not a Nice Girl: On Berenice Abbott

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Not a Nice Girl: On Berenice Abbott by Julia Van Haaften

April 10, 2018 – Photography is the most modern of the arts … It is more suited to the art requirements of this age of scientific achievement than any other …

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