Valarie Lambert

mom...feminist...activist...educator...two spirit...bartender...strong...fiercely independent...OK SIS @SISOKlahoma #comeoutofyourfeministcloset
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#WomensHistoryMonth Day 31: Dolly Rebecca Parton (born 1/19/46)American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, author, businesswoman, & philanthropist. Parton was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. #OKSIS

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#WomensHistoryMonth Day 30: Patsy Takemoto Mink (12/6/27-9/28/02)American lawyer & politician from Hawaii. Made history when elected to the U.S. House of Reps, becoming the 1st woman of color elected to the national legislature & the 1st Asian-American congresswoman. #OKSIS

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#WomensHistoryMonth Day 29: Bessie Smith (4/15/1894 – 9/26/1937) American blues singer, nicknamed the Empress of the Blues, she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s & 1930s. She was a major influence on fellow blues singers, as well as jazz vocalists. #OKSIS

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#WomensHistoryMonth Day 28: Ethel Collins Dunham & Martha May Eliot (1910-1969) Met at Bryn Mawr, & decided to attend medical school together, become doctors together, & live together forever & ever. They accomplished many things making strides in medical field. #loveWins #OKSIS

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#WomensHistoryMonth Day 27: Josephine Baker (6/3/06 – 4/12/75)American-born French entertainer, activist, & French Resistance agent, she identified as bisexual. She used her platform to advocate for desegregation. 1st African-American to star in a major motion picture. #OKSIS

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#WomensHistoryMonth Day 26: Tammy Suzanne Green Baldwin (born 2/11/62)American politician, in 1998,1st openly gay woman&1st openly LGBTQ non-incumbent to U.S. Congress, 1st woman to represent Wisconsin in Congress. 2012, 1st openly LGBTQ person elected to the U.S. Senate. #OKSIS

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#WomensHistoryMonth Day 25: Virginia Woolf (1/25/1882 – 3/28/41)Considered 1 of the most important modernist 20th-century authors. Had affair with Vita Sackville-West, who was bisexual. Woolf said in her journal, "The truth is 1 has room for a good many relationships.” #OKSIS

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#womenshistorymonth Day 24: Joy Harjo (born Joy Foster on 5/9/51, Mvskoke)Poet, musician, author, educator, has 5 albums of her original music. Harjo has written and spoken about U.S. political & Native American affairs, & strongly supports women's rights & equality. #OKSIS

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#WomensHistoryMonth Day 23: Wilma Rudolph (6/23/40–6/12/94) African American world-record-holding Olympic champion & sports icon in track & field. Acclaimed the fastest woman in the world in the 1960s & 1st American woman to win 3 gold medals in a single Olympic Games. #OKSIS

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#WomensHistoryMonth Day 22: Captain Marvel, 2019. 6th biggest worldwide film opening since 2002. Marvel Studios’ 1st woman-led superhero movie soared past others. Women were involved in every aspect of film production Women's emotions are a strength, not a weakness♡#shero #OKSIS

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#WomensHistoryMonth Day 20: Anna Mae Aquash(Mi'kmaq name Naguset Eask)(3/27/45-mid December 1975)First Nations activist from Canada who moved to Boston & joined American Indians in education & resistance.A warrior,activist, educator, & mother, Aquash was murdered at 30. #OKSIS

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#WomensHistoryMonth Day 19: June Millicent Jordan (7/9/36-6/14/02) Caribbean-American poet, essayist, teacher, & activist. She used her writing to discuss issues of gender, race, immigration, & representation. Known as "the Poet of the People." #OKSIS

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Women's Herstory Month Day 18: Laura Ann Hershey (8/11/62-11/26/10)Poet, journalist, popular speaker,feminist,&disability rights activist & consultant.Hershey was 1 of the leaders of a protest against the paternalistic attitudes & images in Jerry Lewis's MDA Telethon.#OKSIS

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#WomensHistoryMonth Day 17: Toni Harris (born 7/29/96) 1st woman to receive a non-kicker football scholarship & the 2nd woman to play football on scholarship. Harris says she lives by the saying “be so good they can’t ignore you.” #OKSIS

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#womenshistorymonth Day 16: Mae West (8/17/1893-11/22/1980) American actress, singer, playwright, screenwriter, comedian, & sex symbol whose entertainment career spanned 7 decades, known for her lighthearted bawdy double entendres & breezy sexual independence. #OKSIS

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#WomensHistoryMonth Day 15: The Women of the Norman City Council, Kate Bierman, Sereta Wilson, Breea Clark, & Alexandra Scott. All won races people didn't think they could win & with those wins, women make up 50% of the Norman City Council. #womenLead #OKSIS #womenInPolitics

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#WomensHistoryMonth Day 14: Fredi Washington(12/23/03 – 6/28/94)American stage & film actress, civil rights activist, performer, & writer.Of European & African anscestory, she is 1 of the 1st people of color to gain recognition for their film & stage work in the 20's&30's.#OKSIS

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#WomensHistoryMonth Day 13: Merrill Beth Nisker, Peaches (born 12/11/66)Canadian electronic musician singer-songwriter,record producer, multi-in disc jockey,actress,rapper. Instruments: vocals, synthesizer,drum machine,guitar,keytar,laser harp, theremin, & bass guitar. #OKSIS

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#WomensHistoryMonth Day 12: Margaret Heafield Hamilton (born 8/17/36)American computer scientist, systems engineer, & business owner. At MIT she helped develop on-board flight software for the Apollo space program. On 11/22/16, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. #OKSIS

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#WomensHistoryMonth Day 11: Ella Josephine Baker (12/13/03 – 12/13/86) Civil rights & human rights activist in the U.S. Ranked as "One of the most important African American leaders of the 20th century and perhaps the most influential woman in the civil rights movement." #OKSIS