I want to introduce you to the women of Laramie. You may have seen them already, walking around the grocery store, exchanging conversation while they picks up their children from the same school as you, cheering by the sidelines of the Homecoming Parade.

I have featured some of them on my blog before. I have shared their images on pop-up art galleries in our beautiful downtown. I have pinned flyers with their smiling faces promoting a Small Business Saturday event. Today I want to have them all in one place, looking at you from your screen. These are the women that keep this world moving, the women that bake bread, that are bosses at meetings, the ones restoring your town, supporting your artists, making art themselves. These women own stores, run businesses, raise children. These women.

Shake their hands the next time you see them around. Women fighting it every day in the Equality State; they are the reason Wyoming has that title.