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Cascading women edit‑a‑thon
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Cascading women
April 2026

Recently completed:	Alphabet run: Countries starting with G and H Works by women: Scientific works Religion and Spirituality
New this month:	LGBTQ+ women Alphabet run: Countries starting with I–L Orphaned women
Ongoing initiatives:	#1day1woman: 2026 Sports
Upcoming events:	Crime and law Alphabet run: Countries starting with M Ideas

Welcome!

In April 2026, Women in Red is running a new type of event: Cascading Women, an event that encourages contributors to follow connections and turn redlinks blue.

The inspiration for this event comes from an experience many of us have had, when one new article leads naturally to another: a red-linked colleague, a collaborator, a family member, a fellow award‑winner, or someone connected through a shared institution, movement or work. It's sometimes called "going down a Wiki rabbit hole". The serendipitous nature of this way of editing can be very satisfying, and a lot of fun, too!

You can start anywhere you like: a biography with lots of red links, a club or organisation with many notable women members, a list of prize winners, or a single overlooked mention in an existing article. We also have some suggested starting points for you below. The aim is simply to follow redlinks that emerge and create a chain of new articles within the scope of Women in Red. Long cascades, short cascades, and unexpected branches are all welcome.

This event is also an opportunity to practise thoughtful redlinking. Notable women mentioned in your articles (whether or not you intend to write about them yourself) provide the starting points for other editors' cascades. Together, we can highlight the networks, circles, relationships and communities that connect notable women.

The main goals of the event are:

to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of prominent women
to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
to promote the new and improved articles and images through social media

Thank you!

Redlists (or, where to start!)

Any of the redlists hosted by Women in Red could be a great starting point for this event.

Add your own suggestions here:

California Library Hall of Fame
Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lectureships (occupational therapy award in US)
Eric Gregory Award
Adaptive Sports USA Hall of Fame
Olga Jonasson Distinguished Member Award, Association of Women Surgeons (US); also on that page is a list of the Amy Morris Homan Lectureships, for women in higher ed physical education (US).
The Performing Arts Aotearoa project has a number of connected redlinks.
The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards (New Zealand's main book awards) still has a number of women redlinked.
List of the first women holders of political offices in Africa
PeaceWomen Across the Globe
Mary Brownell
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry
List of Lulu Award winners
List of female comics creators
Past Presidents of the Society of Women Engineers (USA) and the Women's Engineering Society (UK)

Outcomes (articles)

Promote our work

Key:

Add FB after the article if you mention it on Facebook
Add PIN after the article if you pin the image on Pinterest
Add IG after the article if you post it on Instagram
Add Bsky after the article if you post it on Bluesky

New or upgraded articles

We suggest listing your cascade as a short sequence of links, using the order in which you identified the connected articles. A cascade can be as short as two articles or as long as you like. Optionally, you could note the connection between the articles. For example, you could list:

Alice Brown → Carol Doe → Elizabeth Ford (note: AB was a colleague of CD; EF was a friend of CD)

List of cascades

Penny Richards

Elizabeth Gutman Kaye –sister of→
- Adele Gutman Nathan –in same film with→
  - Blanche Hays Fagen –co-wrote an operetta with→
    - Edith Somborn Isaacs–subject of an encyclopedia article by→
      - Elisabeth Israels Perry–who also wrote an article on→
        Pearl Bernstein Max –attended Hunter College High School with→
        Belle Zeller –taught at Brooklyn College with→
        Elna Lillback–who was reviewed by dance critic→
        Virginia Mishnun–who also reviewed→
        Anita Zahn–taught at the Dalton School, as did→
        Brenda Lansdown–was a US science educator who went to China in the 1980s, as was→
        Barbara Shalucha–taught at Indiana University, as did→
        Jane Fox–was born in Kentucky in the 1890s, as was→
        Gonda Durand–Los Angeles High School class of 1913, with→
        Helen Rankin Jeter–graduated from UC Berkeley in 1917, with→
        Grace Dangberg–collected folklore in the 1920s US, as did→
        Isabel Gordon Carter–was an Albion College alumna, as was→
        Anna Medora Brockway Gray–published poem in the same anthology as→
        Isabel Fiske Conant–and→
        
        Marguerite Janvrin Adams–and→
        
        Anna Kalfus Spero–active in the Berkeley Short Story Club, as was→
        Nora McCaffrey–contributed to "The Educational Whirl", as did→
        Effa E. Preston–and→
        
        Margaret T. Cussler–whose papers are in the Houghton Library, as are those of→
        Louise Merwin Young–an alumna of Ohio Wesleyan University, as was→
        Clotilda Lyon McDowell–2nd president of the WFMS, succeeded→
        Amelia Robertson Foss–was born in Peekskill NY, as was→
        Nan Gilbert Seymour–Cornell class of 1897 with→
        Elizabeth Rhodes Jackson–to be continued→

Arkistointi

Aída Poblete –was a member of the Rectangle Group with→
- Elsa Bolívar –who was a member of the Form and Space Movement with→
  - Carmen Piemonte –who was the mother of→
    - Carmen Valbuena –who was a member of Taller 99 with→
      - Florencia de Amesti –to be continued→

User:Animaliak

Creuza Oliveira –one of the 1000 PeaceWomen alongside→
- Bosiljka Schedlich –one of the 1000 PeaceWomen alongside→
  - Saskia Kouwenberg -to be continued→

Viorica Tătaru -reported on the death of→
- Ludmila Vartic -to be continued→

Anna Nemzer -worked at TV Rain with→
- Ksenia Mironova -worked at TV Rain with→
  - Sonya Groysman -to be continued→

Mother -a painting of Elena Sorolla and her mother→
- Clotilde García del Castillo -to be continued→

TheResilientEngineer

Lois Cooper –Fellow of SWE→
- Naomi McAfee –President of SWE→
  - Arminta Harness – also President of SWE→
    - Evelyn Murray-Lenthall – also President of SWE→

Lajmmoore

Else Went - Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist 2025
- a. k. payne - Susan Smith Blackburn Prize winner 2025
  - Sarah Mantell - Susan Smith Blackburn Prize winner 2023
    - Abbie Spallen - Susan Smith Blackburn Prize winner 2007
      - Ro Reddick - Susan Smith Blackburn Prize winner in 2026

Chocmilk03

Katia Astafieff –French recipient of Randell Cottage Writers' Residency in 2026→
- Caroline Laurent –French recipient of Randell Cottage Writers' Residency in 2021→
  - Lynn Davidson –New Zealand recipient of Randell Cottage Writers' Residency in 2021→
    - Florence Cadier –French recipient of Randell Cottage Writers' Residency in 2011→
      - Titaua Peu –French recipient of Randell Cottage Writers' Residency in 2025→
        Clémentine Mélois – Eugène Dabit Prize [fr; de; it] recipient in 2017 (Peu received the same award in 2025).

Miraclepine

Tomoko Soryo –in the same compilation album Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop, AOR and Boogie 1976–1986 as→
- Minako Yoshida –in the same compilation album Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop, AOR and Boogie 1976–1986 as→
  - Tazumi Toyoshima –in the same compilation album Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop, AOR and Boogie 1976–1986 as→
    - Yasuko Agawa –in the same compilation album Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop, AOR and Boogie 1976–1986 as→
      - Izumi Kobayashi (musician) –in the same compilation album Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop, AOR and Boogie 1976–1986 as→
        Nanako Sato –in the same book "City Pop no Kihon" ga Kono 100-mai de Wakaru as→
        Yurie Kokubu –to be continued→

SDGB1217

Clara de Vries, Dutch jazz trumpeter who performed with
- Juultje Cambré, Dutch jazz trumpeter who performed with
  - Annie van 't Zelfde, Dutch saxophonist; who was inspired to perform jazz after seeing a European tour performance by
    - Babe Egan, American jazz violinist and her band Babe Egan's Hollywood Redheads; whose biographer Jeannie G. Pool has written about
      - Ruth Haroldson, American violinist and conductor
      - and Zenobia Powell Perry (formatted, added sources), American composer and civil rights activist; who was an honouree of the Mu Phi Epsilon fraternity of professional musicians, with an officer of the organisation being
        Deon Nielsen Price, American composer, pianist, educator and president of the International Alliance for Women in Music; whose scholarly journal was founded by
        Jane M. Bowers, American flautist, musicologist, educator and feminist; who contributed a book chapter to Music and Gender, edited by
        Pirkko Moisala, Finnish ethnomusicologist
        
        and Beverley Diamond, Canadian pianist and ethnomusicologist; appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada in the 2013 Canadian honours, alongside
        Beverley Wybrow, Canadian women's rights activist
        
        and is listed in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography with Genevieve Lipsett, Canadian journalist
        
        and who was mentored by Gerda Lerner (formatted, added sources), American historian
      - and who interviewed (for a radio show on women composers) Virginia Eskin, American pianist
- and who is featured in the Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland, with Trijntje Johannes Reidinga, Dutch speed skater
- and Aurelia Zwartte, Dutch poet; whose poem Stichtelijke Poëzij (1727) refers to "excellent poetess"
  - Jetske Reinou van der Malen, Dutch poet
  - and who is recorded on She Wrote alongside Agathe-Pauline Caylac de Caylan, French writer; who contributed to the fashion magazine
    - Journal des dames et des modes (upgraded, expanded, added references, formatted, copyedited, added infobox with image)

MumphingSquirrel

Beate Uhse-Rotermund = upgraded
- Margarete Köstlin-Räntsch mother of Beate

National Council of French Women = upgraded
- Gabrielle Alphen-Salvador = upgraded = member of above
  - Louise Cruppi = upgraded = member of above

Alsor97

Alexia Rivas–who is Deputy Speaker of El Salvador's Parliament, just like→
- Zahara Umud–who is Deputy Speaker of Ethiopia's Parliament, just like→
  - Lomi Bedo–who is Deputy Speaker of Ethiopia's Senate, just like→
    - Dharuelly D'Aza who is Deputy Speaker of Dominican Republic's Chamber of Deputies
Esiteri Vakalala-Kamikamica, –who once headed the→
- National Council of Women of Fiji
Randa El-Menshawy–who is Minister of Egypt's government, just like→
- Naglaa El-Ahwany who was Minister of Egypt's government

PamD

Jill Malone was a red link in Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction
- Juli Delgado Lopera found as winner of Ferro-Grumley Award where Malone was shortlisted, but the red link just needed to be corrected to new name (and a redirect made)
- Found another red link in Ferro-Grumley Award... but discovered she had a curly apostrophe, and an existing article at Stacey D'Erasmo, so fixed that red link
  - But another red link in the F-G Award was Rachel M. Harper (who is also an "H" for WP:26 for '26)
    - And Rachel Wiley was a redlink in the Stonewall Book Award alongside Rachel M. Harper
- And another red linked winner in the Ferro-Grumley was Judy Doenges
Linda Bondestam (also WiR 367, F for Finland) was a red link in Hans Christian Andersen Award (which I looked at because I was alerted when a man on my watchlist was added). (I got sidetracked into fixing the table of winners, making the last couple of years' names sort properly).
A one-step cascade: Judith Mackrell was the only red link in the shortlist for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction. (Has written several biographies including multi-person ones, but all her subjects already have articles!)

Roger aka Victuallers

Wezzie Gondwe –Malawian MP in 2019 before→
- Khadija Chunga –who was elected in 2025→
  - Nancy Chitera –who is a minister nominated for DYK in April 2026
    - Violet Chipao –who is judge who tries ministers, nominated for DYK in April 2026→

Coqui002

Nieves González –Graduate of University of Seville→
- Carmen Vargas –Rector of the University of Seville→

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