by Alice Combs | Oct 7, 2020 | Alice Combs, Based on Sex, Grit & Goals Accomplished, Politicians, Triumph over Discrimination
The First Woman to Lie in State at Our Capitol Glass-ceiling breaker Ruth Bader Ginsburg (aka RBG) was the first female Jewish Supreme Court justice. She was fortunate that her parents encouraged her to get a B.A., and were able to pay for it. Her father was an...
by Alice Combs | Sep 16, 2020 | Alice Combs
I first learned about Kate Germano from an advertisement for her book Fight Like a Girl: The Truth Behind How Female Marines are Trained. I’ve always been fascinated with people different from myself or from anyone I’ve previously known well. Even though I wrote The...
by Alice Combs | Sep 2, 2020 | Alice Combs
Headlines about George, who changed into Christine, hit newspapers all over the world: Ex-GI Becomes Blond Beauty. Christine Jorgensen, a woman trapped in the body of a man, was the first known transsexual in America. George’s first memory of wishing to be...
by Alice Combs | Aug 19, 2020 | Alice Combs
By Alice Combs | August 19, 2020 | Based on Sex, Triumph over Discrimination | 0 comments To President Trump’s chagrin, the U.S. Supreme Court often reins in his hunger for power, and for the past ten years, women have comprised at least one third of the nine...
by Alice Combs | Aug 5, 2020 | Alice Combs
By Alice Combs | August 5, 2020 | Based on Sex, Triumph over Discrimination The 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, became law one hundred years ago this month, and today is my thirty-first wedding anniversary. In celebration, I offer the following...
