Red Widow by Alma Katsu, a former female Operations Officer, is receiving high praise from retired senior CIA Cipher Brief expert, Alison Bouwmeester.for its accurate depiction of women in espionage. …
There have been two Madonnas worshiped throughout Europe for centuries, reflecting the splitting of the feminine archetypal energy in the mind and lives of western people.
This episode is about …
In Judy Batalion’s book, The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos she provides in-depth details into Jewish women resisters in Poland in WW 2. …
Born in what is now Arizona/New Mexico in the 1840’s Lozen was a ‘shield for her people’.
Not interested in the traditional roles of Apache women, she became a warrior, a …
“If you can see it, you can be it.” the National Portrait Gallery in London, has partnered with Chanel Culture Fund in a three-year project called, Reframing Narratives: Women in …
In the county of East Sussex, town of Bexhill, was a unique college from 1932 to 1939 — a Nazi’s girls’ school called the Augusta Victoria College (AVC) for girls and women ages …
Noor Inayat Khan was a Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent in France during WW 2. Due to her fluency in French, unflappable character and exceptional talent with wireless transmitting she was …
At 25 years old, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, was already a highly decorated Soviet sniper and lieutenant from the Red Army’s 25th Chapayev Rifle Division having 309 kills under her belt, including 36 …
Virginia Hall was a tenacious, strategic and adventuresome WW 2 agent. Being American born, wealthy and having studied languages in Europe, she freely travelled during the early war years doing …
Re-examining western cultural history is imperative to revisioning ourselves today. For instance, new archeological techniques are challenging long held beliefs about biological gender roles in …
Soon to be released in English, Amazons of the Mossad, reviews new intelligence information including the identities of some women agents.
Sarah Aaronsohn, one of the women in “Amazons of …
Women spies for King Charles 1 knew how to letter-lock their communications so that these messages passed to him in secret.
These expertly crafted locked letters would be damaged if opened …
In 1925, Missouri-born Josephine Baker, left for Paris travelling with an all-Black troupe as an erotic dancer. She soon came to love France with the freedoms it afforded her and became famous in an …
This year, more than ever, women are being remembered and celebrated in the military. A recent Sun article about women on the front lines reveals that few people have heard of Michelle …
Eighty years post WW 2 and 70 years since Canada first passed the equal pay legislation, why does the power ratio of men to women still exist in the top levels of the modern day …
Invisible Women is celebrating International Women’s Day by releasing Episode 5 a few days early (on March 8) to coincide with IWD. It’s about the power of Sisterhood and women leading, supporting and …
Jessie Jordon, a Scottish citizen, began spying for the Abwehr, the German military intelligence after marrying and living in Germany for a number of years.
Upon her husband’s death in WW 2, …
The Battle of the Somme is known as one of the bloodiest battles of WW 1. The British, French and their allies including Canadian soldiers were on one side of a 1000 km front across Belgium and France …
CIA and KGB Cold War espionage gadgets drew high bids recently in a Beverley Hills Auction.
Peruse the list of interesting relics and their descriptions including women agents’ purses …
In 2017, Chloé Aeberhardt, a French journalist, released a book entitled, “Les Espionnes Racontent” about the stories of six female intelligence officers.
In this clip she talks …
Nancy Wake, New Zealand born and SOE (Special Operations Executive) trained, was one of the few female agents who received wide acclaim for her WW 2 accomplishments. She was honoured with medals by …
Harriet Tubman has been inducted into the Military Intelligence Corps Hall of Fame for her work as an intelligence operations specialist during the Civil War. (also see this Washington Post article …
Last month the Indian Army warned its personnel against interacting with unknown Facebook and WhatsApp social media profiles, and specifically about being “honey-trapped”. They had …
Actor, Lorraine Toussaint, comments that it’s exciting to play the strong and clever Black female spy character, McCall in The Equailzer, a drama series reboot from the …