At 20, she forged documents to save Jewish refugees. The Gestapo tortured her under Klaus Barbie. She survived concentration camps eating insects and bark. Last year, she died at 100 with full military honors. Her name was Josette Molland, and her story is one of the most

The Taliban have banned women’s sports in Afghanistan, but the Afghan Women’s Team refuses to disappear. Playing their first match in Morocco. Afghan women are not silent 👏🥰 Aja ♀️🇬🇧 Allison Pearson Ann Sinnott Bruce Bowman Linda Blade Tracy Edwards Sabrina Agresti-Roubache

Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos, installation with Azores crocheted lace #WomensArt

We are so sad to hear of the death of Prunella Scales. Prunella appeared at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre near the beginning of her career in the mid 1950s, with roles including Juliet in Measure for Measure, and Nerissa in The Merchant of Venice.

A day at the beach in Biarritz, France, 1928.

Gillian Wearing’s statue of Suffragist Millicent Fawcett, 2018, Parliament Square, London. The words are a quote from Fawcett on the death of suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, killed when walking in front of the King’s horse at the Derby,1913, to highlight the women's cause.

Beatrix Potter, Four rabbits on bicycles, 1895 #womensart

Halloween ready 👀

She crossed Nazi-occupied Europe on foot during WW2, smuggling Allied soldiers over the Pyrenees. She outwitted the Gestapo—aged just 25. This is the story of the heroine who co-founded a WW2 secret escape line: (🧵)

Dad dancing 🤣

'The night the sky showered us with stars" by Sarah Morgan, contemporary artist and printmaker #WomensArt

Happy All Souls’ Day!✨ Welsh folklore tells us to give our eyes a blessing today: “In almost every parish there was a holy well, and on All Souls’ Day old women generally washed their eyes in the waters so that their eyesight might retain its strength” 📸St Non's #folkloresunday

Beautiful objects are made by women

Barcelona-born UK-based artist Miriam Escofet’s portrait of her mother, An Angel at my Table. winner of the prestigious 2018 BP Portrait Award. At R, a close-up / a joint viewing by mother & daughter © Miriam Escofet

And every other time of the day

Thanks Dad 🤩

Clare Youngs, contemporary graphic designer and artist who works with collage, paper and fabric #womensart

Women getting stuff done 🩷

Congratulations to Michelle Agyemang on winning the Golden Girl award for 2025! ❤️

Whole lotta skirt 🥰