Login with Patreon
Badass women alert.
17 Badass Women You Probably Didn’t Hear About In 2016
Related Posts
Lumchuan
While browsing a book of woman warriors, I came across an entry that stopped me cold. You have to read this.
Jolly Good Fellers
A 1942 video of Scottish women lumberjacks.
Annie Duke
NPR took a look back at the first World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions in 2004, and how being the only woman in the tournament both harmed and helped the winner.
A new women-only cab service is helping women get around in Pakistan
Employing and catering only to women, the Pink Taxi service is the first of its kind.
The changing roles of Cherokee women
Cherokee women traditionally were equal to men, politically, economically, and sexually. As white settlers coerced the tribes to adopt European manners of living, women lost much of the power they originally possessed.
Random Princesses
Mary Seacole
One half of the odd couple of Crimean nursing - the jolly black businesswoman who swore by folk remedies, in stark contrast to Florence Nightingale's by-the-book Victorian approach to medicine.
Onake Obavva
When enemies invaded her town while her husband was on lunch break, she grabbed a nearby pestle and saved the day by achieving the high score in soldier whack-a-mole.
Anahit
This Armenian folktale princess saved her hapless beau - by making him get a job.
Zenobia
3rd century Rome had a major woman problem. Her name was Zenobia, and she took over a huge chunk of their empire in her brief and tumultuous career as rebel queen.
Ada Lovelace
History's first computer programmer, who invented algorithms for the first computer - which didn't even exist during her lifetime, so…