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Hi All!

To celebrate the first anniversary of the 100Days100Women Project I'm drawing...

100 more women.

Yes! From August to November, 100 women, one a day, rebels, fighters, scientists, artists, iconoclasts and more.

I had been thinking a lot about it, as the year-mark approaches, and doing the 2016 project was such joy. The 2016 project was full of so much hope, in anticipation of something that didn't happen. Not only did it not happen, but misogyny, bigotry, cruelty and intolerance seemed to win the day. In that light, this list's overarching spirit will be resistance, willfulness, scrappiness and rule-breaking (and, of course, hope and wonder will still play a big part).

Because, while I was deciding to do this, I kept thinking about just...not leaving that hope hanging, and the necessity to say, "we carry-on, we fight, we persist, always have, always WILL". And very personally, it is also that *I* do those things as well; the acknowledgment of the back-and-forth of changing the world as it changes you, and rebounding from setbacks.

Central to this (as well as the first project) is the idea of reclaiming history. I have a very personal connection to the difference a little forgotten history can make, and I never want to shake it. 1984 put it succinctly: "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." I have this bit of signal, here in the present, and I intend to use it! Bringing people who, by the common thought, aren't supposed to exist, let alone make history, to the fore is a task I'm just not done with, especially now, when the very hope of an inclusive, better world is under open and increasing attack. (Also, when I stumble upon "fake history" I'll post about it and how to recognize it.)

In addition to all the above this new project will allow me to draw attention to so many of the women I wasn't able to fit on the original 100 list. But fear not! Though I have hundreds of names, I still want your suggestions!

So please join me on this journey to reclaim history together!

If you have suggestions, interview requests or other inquiries, please email me at [email protected]

#100Days100Women Day 5: Lozen was a Chiricahua Apache woman, a tactician and fighter in Apache Wars. She was also a prophet called "a shield to her people". Lozen fought alongside her brother Victorio and Geronimo, as well as warrior woman Dahteste, who was close to Lozen and may have been her lover (caveat, I could not verify this within my means, but there seems to be enough behind it that it’s worth the mention-with-a-caveat). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lozen

#100Days100Women Day 3: Patsy Mink, 1st woman of color elected to congress, 1st Asian-American woman elected to congress, Title IX (Education Equality Act) author, introduced Early Childhood Education Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patsy_Mink

#100Days100Women Day 1: Harriet Tubman A 5ft tall former slave, she freed at least a thousand enslaved people, used folk medicine to great outcome as a nurse, spied, and made daring raids on southern assets: http://www.harriet-tubman.org

#100Days100Women Day 4: Theodora, actress, sex worker & great Byzantine Queen was a legal & spiritual reformer who saved her husband, Emperor Justinian's, empire and legislated better laws for women. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodora_(6th_century)