‘The fastest girl drummer in the world’: Celebrating Wisconsin’s Viola Smith
Drummer Viola Smith was a musical trailblazer and innovator. Known as "the fastest girl drummer in the world," her career ...
Women behind the bar: A brief history of Wisconsin’s bartenders
Wisconsin has one of the highest concentrations of bartenders in the country, employing more than 24,000 bartenders. A good percentage of ...
“The stars lined up”: Reflecting on Wisconsin’s first high school girls basketball championship
Prior to 1972 girls didn't always have the opportunity to play sports at school. But the passage of Title IX ...
Wisconsin 101: ‘The Land of the Freed-up Woman’ aka The Bra Flag
The 1970s were the height of the second wave of feminism, where women were advocating for equal rights and opportunities ...
The Racine Belles and Kenosha Comets: In a league of their own
A major event in sports history took place in September 1943. Two teams played in the first championship series of ...
Remembering Rae Elaine Tourtillott And Preventing Future Violence
Menominee tribal member Rae Elaine Tourtillott was 18 when she went missing on the tribe’s reservation during the fall of ...
‘Tomboyland:’ A Love Letter To Midwestern Strength, Complexities
Even though 2020 has been *A YEAR*, Melissa Faliveno has had some bright spots this summer. The New York City writer ...
A Force To Be Reckoned With: Octopi’s Erica DeAnda On How Women Are Transforming Beer Culture
The world of craft beer opened up for Erica DeAnda four years ago during a tasting class at a high-end brew pub in Oakland, ...
Barb Carey Introduces Women To Ice Fishing
If you go out to a frozen lake at this time of year, chances are good you’ll see a guy ...
Oxford Woman Used To Catch Criminals, Now Catches Fish
Barb Carey spent nearly two decades catching criminals as a police officer. Now she spends most of her time patrolling ...
What Stays And What Remains: The Mystery Of The Wedding Dress
A school field trip led Rosalind Vang to a strange place – a house filled with mannequins. She tells us ...
The Swinging Sounds Of An All-Female Jazz Band
June Dalton has defied expectations her entire musical career, and the all-female jazz band she founded called Ladies Must Swing ...
Swan Creek Sewing Circle, More Than A Century Of Friendship And Sewing
For more than a century, the women of the Swan Creek Sewing Circle have gathered on the first Wednesday of ...
Wisconsin’s Brewsters Share What They Love About Beer
Among the dozens of craft breweries around Wisconsin, women run the show in only three of them. Jamie Baertsch has ...
Social Justice Mentor Finds Empowerment Through Words
As Althea René Miller launches into a spoken work poem, you get the sense she’s heading someplace remarkable. And her ...