Dear Beautiful People -- An Announcement

I have reluctantly decided to put this blog on what may prove to be a permanent pause. In my initial enthusiasm when starting this blog, it seems I underestimated how much time and effort these daily postings would require over the long term. So I am going to return my attention and focus to my main blog, She Who Seeks, and leave this blog as an archival one. Perhaps some day I may resume regular posting here if demands on my time change. We'll see what the future holds.

Thank you to everyone who has followed this blog. I am grateful for your support. And thank you to all who nominated women as subjects for posts and/or who left such interesting, supportive, and perceptive comments over the year of Beautiful Woman of the Day's existence. I appreciate your interest and participation very much!

Blogging Break

Hi everyone --

I'm off to visit my sister and then when I get back,

I will be having my cataracts surgery. So I will not

be blogging for the month of September at a minimum.

I don't know yet how great a limitation on screen time

I'll have to observe during my recovery period of

October and November. So blogging may be

sporadic and/or non-existent during those months too.

But regular blogging will resume when I am able!

See you later, Beautiful People!

Björk

Björk (1965 -     )

Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, and actor;

Noted for her distinct voice, three-octave vocal range, 

eclectic musical stye, and eccentric public persona and fashion;

one of the most influential pioneers in electronic and experimental music;

nominated in 2001 for an Oscar for Best Original Song, she caused

a sensation at the ceremony in her infamous "Swan Dress;"

her 2025 concert film Cornucopia is currently streaming on Apple TV+.

One Year of Beautiful Women!

Beautiful Woman of the Day blog

is one year old today!

Thank you to everyone who has read,

followed, or commented on this blog

over the past 12 months!

I appreciate all of you!

Marcy Borders

Marcy Borders (1973 - 2015)

American legal assistant who worked in the World Trade Center's North Tower;

she survived its collapse following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks;

immortalized as "The Dust Lady," she was 28 years old when this iconic photo

was taken by Stan Honda, photographer for Agence France-Presse;

Marcy never recovered from the trauma of the attack and

suffered severe PTSD for the rest of her life;

she died from stomach cancer at age 42, convinced it was

due to the toxic dust from the World Trade Center collapse.

[photo of Marcy Borders with Stan Honda]

Stormé DeLarverie

Stormé DeLarverie (1920 - 2014)

American woman and butch lesbian whose scuffle with police

was, according to DeLarverie and many eyewitnesses, the spark

that ignited the 1969 Stonewall uprising, spurring the crowd to action;

she worked as an MC, singer, drag king, bouncer, bodyguard,

and volunteer street patrol worker, the "guardian of lesbians in the Village;"

from 1955-1969, she performed with the Jewel Box Revue,

North America's first racially integrated drag revue;

although she did not publicly express a gender identity, today's term

"non-binary" probably comes the closest.

Sophia Tolstaya

Sophia Tolstaya (1844 - 1919)

Russian diarist and wife of writer Count Leo Tolstoy;

their marriage is considered one of the most famously unhappy

marriages of literary history, in which their children also took sides;

her diaries, in which she recorded her life with her husband,

were not published in English translation until the 1980s;

she also wrote her memoirs entitled My Life;

interested in photography, she took over 1000 photographs

documenting her life and the decline of the Russian Empire;

most of her works were published postmortem, long after being written,

because Tolstaya was critical of Leo Tolstoy in her writing and

the Russian authorities did not want the famous author's status tarnished.