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Iron Spike@ironspike.bsky.social |
For folks not familiar with Dr. Walker: -Only woman recipient of the Medal of Honor -Dressed as illustrated below in a time when that shit got you arrested -Lifelong abolitionist, frontline war surgeon, Civil War P.O.W. -Paid her own way through med school on a teacher's salary (lol can u imagine)
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CritFacts the Blue Sky Enby
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Give her another medal
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Coding in the name of 🇵🇸
@p1d40n3.bsky.social
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What a fucking hero.
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ZHUGE LIANG
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damn she fucking rules
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it’s M the Autumn Owl 🍁🍂
@owlinautumn.bsky.social
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An icon. Amazing. I adore her.
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Francis Serpa
@fcserpa.bsky.social
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Wow, what a hero!
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Arash Mohebbi
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holy shit that's incredible
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Andy Robertson
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To me Dr Walker is a stark reminder that I need to up my sartorial game.
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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦
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the story of her medal of honor is a saga in its own right - first awarded, then taken away from her after a review of medals of honor in the early 20th century (that also took away a lot of medals that legit should not have been awarded) then eventually reinstated in 1977.
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Dr. Stephanie
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They tried to make her give BACK the Medal of Honor (because she wasn’t commissioned, because she was a woman) and she basically told them to go screw.
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Iron Spike
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Just another one of the countless amazing, badass women of history no one teaches you about.
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Dieter Zwetschke
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Why should you get arrested for this. I still admire her.
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Billie Bloebaum
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I first learned about her through this picture book and resent than no one bothered to tell me about her before then.
bookshop.org/a/1509/97800...
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S. E. Wigget
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She's on the cover of this book--which I should resume reading soon:
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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In fact, that shit did get her arrested. Though they let her go when they realized they had arrested a war hero en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ed...
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✨🐸 figmentpudding 🐸✨ (Pam Poovey Aspirant)
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I'm still angry they cancelled Gentleman Jack on MAX, on the topic of "this is all new!"
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Renee Perry
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Absolute monarch.
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It's a Pip!
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Learned about her through a friend of mine who happened to be a ACW reenactor who would portray her at events. Incredible person.
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