Women in History Now Recorded!

In Feb. 2014 about 600 volunteers in 31 venues around the globe stood for something EWLS believes in: representing and recording women in history. These amazing volunteers answered a call for the Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, a massive multinational effort to correct a persistent bias in Wikipedia, which is disproportionally written by and about men.

At a time when Wikipedia is becoming increasingly influential, “it’s really tangible to be able to fix something that is visibly wrong,” says Jacqueline Mabey, a co-organizer of Saturday’s Edit-a-Thon.

"The event seemed like a new kind of consciousness raising that was very goal-oriented ... It was aimed at writing women into history in a new way for the digital age—by giving more women the awareness and tools to take matters in their own hands." says Casamento, a masters student in American literature at Brooklyn College who participated in the effort.

Read all about the effort and some of the recorded women artists at this link.

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Cave-diving scientist Patricia A. Beddows of Northwestern University is a contributing scientist for the Hoyo Negro site, where one of the oldest human skeletons in North America was found alongside at least 16 other animal species. She fluent in English, Spanish and French and has contributed to numerous scientific publications related to caves and karst. She is the Assistant Chair and Assistant Professor of Instruction Director, Environmental Field School for Northwestern University Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Her research in the karst Yucatan Peninsula began in 1996 as an assistant to researchers from the Mexican National Autonomous University. This impressive experience directed her career path with both her Master of Science (McMaster, Canada) and her Ph.D. (Bristol, UK). She has explored the hydrodynamics of the most extensive flooded cave systems in the world, found in the Yucatan. Her research continues today with students and projects dedicated to assessing...

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