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Portrait Highlight - Ida B Wells American journalist, educator and civil rights leader
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (1862 – 1931) American investigative journalist, educator, & an early leader in the civil rights movement. She was...
Amy Hood
Jul 16, 202112 min read
Portrait Highlight - Emmeline Pankhurst Political activist, founder & leader of the WSPU
Emmeline Pankhurst (1858 – 1928) British political activist and founder and leader of the British suffragette movement (WSPU) Emmeline...
Amy Hood
Jul 15, 202112 min read
Portrait Highlight - Millicent Fawcett - British feminist & suffragist, political and union leader
Millicent Fawcett (1847-1929) British feminist and suffragist, intellectual, political and union leader, and writer. Millicent was born...
Amy Hood
Jun 11, 20216 min read
Portrait Highlight - Sarah Parker Remond - African American abolitionist, lecturer & physician
Sarah Parker Remond (1826 - 1894) African American slavery abolitionist, lecturer and physician. Born free in Salem, Massachusetts to...
Amy Hood
Jun 6, 20218 min read
Portrait Highlight - Wu Chien-Shiung - Chinese-American particle and experimental physicist
Wu Chien-Shiung (吳健雄; May 31st, 1912 – February 16th, 1997) was a Chinese-American particle and experimental physicist who made...
Amy Hood
May 31, 20219 min read
Portrait Highlight - Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia - campaigner for women's suffrage in New Zealand
Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia (22 May 1868 – 10 October 1920) was a campaigner for women's suffrage in New Zealand, a suffragist who inspired...
Amy Hood
May 22, 20214 min read
Portrait Highlight - Ichikawa Fusae - Japanese feminist, politician and women's suffrage leader
Ichikawa Fusae (市川 房枝, May 15, 1893 – February 11, 1981) was a Japanese feminist, politician and a leader of the women's suffrage...
Amy Hood
May 15, 202110 min read
Portrait Highlight - Sylvia Pankhurst - English artist, suffragette, and anti-fascist activist
Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (1882 - 1960) English artist, campaigner for the suffragette movement, prominent left communist and anti-fascist...
Amy Hood
May 5, 20216 min read
Portrait Highlight - Mary Wollstonecraft - English writer, philosopher, advocate of women’s rights
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 – 1797) English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women’s rights. Mary was born to Elizabeth Dixon and...
Amy Hood
Apr 27, 202110 min read
Portrait Highlight - Aretha Franklin - American singer, actress, and civil rights activist
Aretha Louise Franklin (March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter, actress, pianist, and civil rights...
Amy Hood
Mar 25, 20215 min read
Portrait Highlight - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020) American lawyer and jurist, and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the...
Amy Hood
Mar 15, 20215 min read
Women's History Month 2021
As you may have gathered, I like drawing portraits of women. I rarely draw a male portrait, not because I have anything against men, but...
Amy Hood
Mar 9, 202113 min read
Portrait Highlight - Sarojini Naidu - Indian political activist and poet
Sarojini Naidu (née Chattopadhyay 13th February 1879 – 2nd March 1949) Indian political activist and poet. A proponent of civil rights,...
Amy Hood
Feb 13, 20213 min read
Portrait Highlight - Una Marson - Jamaican Feminist, Activist and Writer
Black History Month Una Marson (6th February 1905 - 6th May 1965) Jamaican feminist, activist and writer, producing poems, plays and...
Amy Hood
Feb 6, 20215 min read
Women's History Month
Well, what a month it's been. Understatement of the millennium Amy, I hear you say. Indeed. At the start of March I was setting out on...
Amy Hood
Mar 31, 20201 min read
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