Angélique-Marguerite du Coudray, 18thc French midwife who designed various innovative textile models to teach midwife trainees about delivering babies, saving the lives of thousands of mothers & infants #Womensart Find out more re women's weird/wonderful textile arts in bookshop.org/beta-search?...

Congratulations to UBC Midwifery student Echo Sulin (Ulkatcho First Nation), recipient of the Chief Joe Mathias and Vancouver Foundation First Nations scholarships!

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“To find a calling is not about the actual work of chopping wood and carrying water,” writes Arthur C. Brooks. “The sense of calling comes in how we make the act of chopping wood meaningful, and in how we serve others by the water we’re carrying”: https://theatln.tc/xv1Do4oI

I haven't ever really spoken about this to anyone, but when I was litigating the so-called "comfort women" case, I went to the National Archives to obtain and read the testimonies of women and girls who were held in sex slave camps by the Japanese military following their release.

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Large-scale yarn bomb at Helsinki Cathedral steps, 2011. Crocheted squares created 3,800 blankets which were later donated to charity #WomensArt