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Commander: Eileen Collins A former military instructor and test pilot, Collins guided the shuttle Discovery to a rendezvous with the Mir space station in 1995, making her the first female pilot and commander of a Space Shuttle. (via Women of Space - Photo Essays - TIME)
First African-American Woman: Mae Jemison (from Time’s Women of space series)
Part of a joint mission between Japan and the United States, Jemison flew aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992. A medical doctor by training, her responsibilities during the flight included carrying out experiments to investigate how space flight causes changes in bone cell function.
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Often referred to as the “Iron Lady”, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is Africa’s first elected female head of state.
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Sirleaf’s political rise began in the 1980s, when she sought a seat in the senate, but was jailed for criticizing the government of then President Samuel Doe. As war engulfed her country in the 1990s, she went into exile, living in the U.S. and Kenya.
via i.timeinc.net
Photographer Peter DiCampo meets the young women who come to Ghana’s big cities in search of work and a future
Artist and Islamic scholar Huda Lutfi questions the notions of identity in regard to gender and culture. Using found photographs and other objects and imagery, Lutfi creates thought-provoking assemblages and collages that question preconceived notions of identity. Lutfi mixes historical texts with imagery inspired by the magical and spiritual iconography of Pharaonic, Coptic, Arab, Mediterranean, Indian, and African cultures. She believes an authentic cultural identity is a myth, and likes the idea of recycling and appropriating imagery because she believes it creates a dialogue between herself and the imagemaker whose work she is appropriating.
(via Cairo’s Avant-Garde)
