MARCH 8TH INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
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Hello fellow Wayfarers, Wayfinders, Wayspotters, whatever you call yourselves!
March 8th (which has already started for the eastern most time zones) is International Women's Day. Let's take a look at how points of interest in the Wayfarer system highlight or celebrate women!
Post your shots of POI for specific women who have made a contribution to the world (even just your local community) or shots of women based art. Murals, statues, sculptures, drawings, anything and everything is valid.
Feel free to just post the image if you don't want to include location details that reveal where you are/where you play. Give us some explanation of why you like this POI, or maybe the image speaks for itself!
I'm also going to post this on Twitter so it may be easier for you to post an image there!
This is not a contest. It's just a fun look at the world through Wayfarer.
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This POI is called "Inform Women, Transform Lives." I don't have the wayspot details but here's an article about it.
https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/inform-women-transform-lives-mural-carter-center/85-65f44f4c-02fc-41fa-88e3-45ac6c1bda89
I’m just here for that moment in the first Deadpool movie.
Sadly it's a Wayfarer only wayspot, but I chose this plaque detailing the life and achievements of Dr. Laura Veale, the first Yorkshire woman to become a doctor. The information on the plaque really speaks for itself. She paved the way for many other women in the area to follow in her footsteps and become doctors, and she naturally did a great deal for the local community, both in her capacity as a doctor, and also supporting local organisations when she retired.
If I'd submitted it myself, I would've fleshed out the description a bit more, but it's an old Ingress submission from what I can tell. Maybe once the Wayfarer app is officially available I'll do some edits, as she deserves more of a description than just "the first female doctor from Yorkshire".
Ooh! I didn't even think of looking in the app for the details! Good call.
On July 9, 1948, Mrs. Griffin and her party were refused service due to their race at the Katz lunch counter. Griffin led pickets and sit-ins, and other actions to bring attention to discrimination and civil rights violations of the 1884 Iowa Civil Rights Act. The Iowa Supreme Court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in 1949.
http://www.ednagriffin.com/
A couple from home that I can think of
Also still In Voting
I have not submitted anything in regards to real women. But this is my favorite mural that shows a fictional woman. One of over a hundred murals at the Prizm Outlets at Primm Valley Nevada, my favorite wayfarer experience to date.
I have a few, but I’ll pick my favourites.
This one is simply titled as it says, but it’s a great looking sculpture and part of a trail.
This took a few attempts and was a great mural about NHS workers during the recent pandemic & stylised with a female NHS worker on it too.
The UK loves its postboxes of course and we get reminded often that we’ve had two great female monarchs with their cyphers all over. This was my best Queen Victoria one, as it was in London where there’s a significant backlog and I couldn’t believe it wasn’t nominated when I saw it.
I don’t have a postbox for our latest Queen so this weathered plaque about her coronation will have to do. A Wayspot that’s almost 70 years old so understandable it’s a little battered.
Madame de Stael, a feminist of her time
Marie Clews, a patron of the arts
And then I loved seeing this one in review:
Oceana Zarco was the first portuguese woman to become a federated cyclist with just 14 years old, in the 1920s.
Elizabeth Raffald wrote “The experienced English housekeeper”, a best seller of its time. One of 4 plaques in Suffragette Square acknowledging the contributions of prominent Stopfordian women.
I'm lucky enough to live in an area that is filled with world-class street art. New pieces show up regularly-- it's not unusual for me to drive down the street and spot a mural that wasn't there before, or even better come across an artist working on a new piece. I usually submit them as soon as they're finished because I want the world to see them.
Song of Ice and Fjord by Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya is an extraordinary mural a few blocks from me. I'll let the website speak for itself, but the artist is female and the content was shaped by discussions with female scientists.
https://www.findingsproject.com/murals/song-of-ice-and-fjord
This one comes to us from Texas. Hattie sounds like she was an interesting lady.
These wayspots celebrate motherhood (and need clearer pictures)
That second motherhood is outside a popular movie theater.
@MargariteDVille-ING you want to post the one of our famous music lady?
This is a photo that awaits being added, along with a few others and a better description, to a wayspot in Mt. Ayr, Iowa. It celebrates one of the most remarkable citizens of Iowa - Astronaut Peggy Whitson. This news story tells more about Ms. Whitson and the artwork dedication. https://who13.com/news/mount-ayr-unveils-freedom-rock-to-honor-hometown-hero-peggy-whitson/
Sheffield, UK.
Description
Statue of two women, outside Sheffield City Hall. This statue is devoted to women for their efforts during World Wars I and II. Factory jobs were traditionally a very male dominated industry, but when the call to war came and many men were deployed into Europe, many women stepped up to help in the production of weapons, ammunition needed for the war effort. War is fought on many battlefronts, this statue stands proud to pay homage to these heroines.
This POI is called "Inform Women, Transform Lives." I don't have the wayspot details but here's an article about it.
https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/inform-women-transform-lives-mural-carter-center/85-65f44f4c-02fc-41fa-88e3-45ac6c1bda89
This street is named after Anna Fischer, who led the local day care for decades! Not the flashiest thing but what bigger shout out can you get than your city naming a street after you?
Magna Mater, a statue for life, earth, mothers and women!
This one took a couple of tries from a local to finally get approved. Great find!
A selection of mine. Authors, one of the first women doctors, founder of the first British Women’s Police Service, Artists, actress and brave policewomen (and friends of mine).
https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=43.134788,-77.613457&z=16&pll=43.134666,-77.615715 - sorry I don't currently have access to a key for a decent photo of the actual POI, but this portal is the grave of Susan B. Anthony. Just another historical gravestone, sure - but there's an Election Day tradition here of women visiting this grave and placing their "I Voted" stickers on the tombstone to thank her for the rights that she fought so hard to obtain. There are lots of Susan B. wayspots in this town, but this one has an enduring tradition attached. It's important.
A lot more I could share but these are probably the ones that are most well known from my area.
A couple of my more well known names of women in history like Kroc who donated over 90mil towards the development of the Kroc center and the rest are pretty much self explanatory in South Carolina history.
I hate it when it does not post my comment then it does hours later after I redid it and then can not delete one of them. haha