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Saturday at #VLC2018 is a big fat check. Fantastic day with fantastic people! Happy Birthday Jen and Happy Birthday Eve Erin, @cpeskuski, and @amgiles90! 🤗🎂🎉♥️ #avma #somuchtocelebrate #collaborate #innovate #usie #vlcpc #wvldi #vetmed #vetlife (at Chicago, Illinois)

We are all wonderwomen! Exactly. If you know who created this design please let me know so I can shout it from the mountain top. They #nailedit. #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2017 #beboldforchange #rewritingthecode #heforshe #wvldi #wilmah #womenshistorymonth #womensmarch #womeninstem #dayofthewoman (at Planet Earth)

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! #SheMeansBusiness #beboldforchange #IWD2017 #rewritingthecode #womenshistorymonth #wilmah #wvldi #Repost @ladies_of_history ・・・ Josephine Baker (born Freda Josephine McDonald; 3 June 1906 – 12 April 1975) was a French vedette, spy, singer, entertainer and Civil rights activist whose career was centered primarily in Europe and in particular in her adoptive country of France. She had given up her US citizenship for a French citizenship after her broadway show generated less impressive numbers at the box office and Time magazine referred to her as a "Negro wench...whose dancing and singing might be topped anywhere outside of Paris", while other critics said her voice was "too thin" and "dwarf-like" to fill the Winter Garden Theatre. _______________ Baker soon after based her work in Europe while living in France. Nevertheless, she supported the American Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s. She refused to perform for segregated audiences in the United States, although she was offered $10,000 by a Miami club. (The club eventually met her demands). Her insistence on mixed audiences helped to integrate live entertainment shows in Las Vegas, Nevada. After this incident, she began receiving threatening phone calls from people claiming to be from the Ku Klux Klan but said publicly that she was not afraid of them. ________________ In 1963, Baker also spoke at the March on Washington at the side of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. She was the only official female speaker. While wearing her Free French uniform emblazoned with her medal of the Légion d'honneur, she introduced the "Negro Women for Civil Rights." Rosa Parks and Daisy Bates were among those she acknowledged, and both gave brief speeches. After King's assassination, his widow Coretta Scott King approached Baker in the Netherlands to ask if she would take her husband's place as leader of the American Civil Rights Movement but after many days of thinking it over, Baker declined, saying her children were "too young to lose their mother". #blackhistorymonth #greatwoman #ladiesofhistory #vedette #civilrightsmovement #beautifulwomen #josphinebaker

It's #InternationalWomensDay. Much to do, much to celebrate! #beboldforchange #IWD2017 #rewritingthecode #heforshe #wvldi #wilmah #womenshistorymonth #womensmarch #womeninstem #Repost @women_ofhistory with @repostapp ・・・ Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934), the world renowned physicist and chemist, met a great deal of discrimination in her career. Curie was embroiled in a scandal with a married man and accused of only being famous because of her scientist husband rather than accomplishing anything on her own merits. Despite being awarded her second Nobel Prize, she was discouraged from traveling to accept it. Curie sank into a deep depression and hid from the public. Seeing the vitriol published in newspapers, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to Curie saying: "I am impelled to tell you how much I have come to admire your intellect, your drive, and your honesty . . . And that I consider myself lucky to have made your personal acquaintance." As for the vicious newspaper articles, Einstein encouraged her to "simply not read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom it has been fabricated." Likely with this kindness in mind, Curie decided to emerge from hiding and accept her Nobel Prize.