WOW2 – January’s Women Trailblazers and Activists, 1-10 thru 1-16

“I am not afraid to be a pioneer. When
a door is ajar, you need to open it fully.
And once you are in that room, you need
to see what other doors there might be
and where they might lead.”
– Gurinder Chadha, director
of Bend It Like Beckham
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WOW2 is a four-times-a-month sister blog to This Week in the War on Women.

“I have great respect for the past.
If you don’t know where you’ve come
from, you don’t know where you’re
going. I have respect for the past, but
I’m a person of the moment. I’m here,
and I do my best to be completely
centered at the place I’m at, then
I go forward to the next place.”
– Maya Angelou, author of
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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“History is no longer just a chronicle
of kings and statesmen, of people who
wielded power, but of ordinary women
and men engaged in manifold tasks.
Women’s history is an assertion
that women have a history.”
– Toshiko Kishida, Japanese
author and feminist

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The purpose of WOW2 is to learn about and honor women of achievement, including many who’ve been ignored or marginalized in most of the history books.

These trailblazers have a lot to teach us about persistence in the face of overwhelming odds. I hope you will find reclaiming our past as much of an inspiration as I do.

WOW2 began as a once-a-month post, then as more and more trailblazing women were added to the lists, it expanded until it became a four-times-a-month post. The lists became so long that I’m switching to posting only a few of these trailblazers — for those who want to see the glorious full and longer list of amazing women for this week, click:

 www.dailykos.com/…