This year, Menokin dedicates International Women’s Day to the hundreds of women who called Menokin home, who we do not know.

Rebecca Tayloe Lee. Amanda Beverly. Mary Harwood.

These are the names of some of the women we know who lived at Menokin.

This year, Menokin dedicates International Women’s Day to the hundreds of women who called Menokin home, who we do not know.

Today is dedicated to the Rappahannock women whose cultural landscape was forever changed when the lands that make up Menokin were taken through the process of settler colonialism.

Today is dedicated to the women of African descendant who were denied their freedom and their autonomy under the institution of slavery.

Today is dedicated to the women whose stories we have yet to recover from courthouses, archives, and libraries.

Today we honor and celebrate these women for their tenacity and strength.

International Women’s Day was first celebrated in 1911, and since then has been a day to celebrate women’s achievements and raise awareness about women’s equality.

Menokin is dedicated to doing our part to #BreaktheBias both in our present and in how we learn about and understand our past.