September 18, 2015 in Modern Worthies Deepika Kurup Teenaged Inventor of a New Water Purification Method During family trips to India, Deepika saw that people did not have access to clean water. At age 14, she decided to do something about it.
September 17, 2015 Cursed The middle part of this short made me raise my eyebrow, but the ending won me over. You might dig it too!
Nana Miriam The Shaman Who Hurled Hippos When a firebreathing shapeshifting hippo menaced her people, this shaman faced it down in a magic battle - and then hurled it into space.
September 15, 2015 in Modern Worthies Emily Hahn The opium-smoking author who lived with pygmies in Congo Emily Hahn led a life as varied as her writings. She got a degree in engineering to prove that she could, then made a career as a writer; she lived in a red-light district and dined with millionaires; she had a family in England and worked in New York.
September 14, 2015 in Press RP in Cosmopolitan! Cosmopolitan included a brief shout-out to RP in this month's issue!
September 14, 2015 Argentinian publisher launches ‘Anti-Princess’ book series The Argentinian publishing house Sudestada y Chirimbote launched an "anti-princess" book series for children. Each book tells the tale of a real Latin American woman.
September 11, 2015 How Two 18th-Century Lady Pirates Became BFFs on the High Seas The history of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, the most famous female pirate duo (and, many suspect, couple) of all.
September 10, 2015 Compositions by Mozart’s sister discovered? An Australian scholar claims to have discovered pieces composed by Anna Maria Mozart, Wolfgang's older sister, in a notebook that Wolfgang used to learn how to play the piano.
Mekatilili wa Menza (c.1860-c.1925) The widow who beat the British through ecstatic dance When colonial powers went too far, she rebelled in the most stylish way possible: dancing from town to town. It was surprisingly effective.
September 8, 2015 Nine proto-feminists worth knowing The first wave of feminism is considered to have started in the 19th century. But here are some women who were championing women's rights far earlier than that.
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