Login with Patreon
16-year-old Amandla Stenberg played Rue in “Hunger Games,” but her career as an actor and activist is just getting started. The evidence is on her Tu…
Wish I’d been half as eloquent at their age…!
Explaining Cultural Appropriation
Related Posts
Grace Brett
At 104 years old, this yarn-bombing great-grandmother may be the world's oldest street artist.
Tig Notaro
Tig Notaro had a double mastectomy. She's mostly known for a half-hour standup routine she did about her breast cancer. So when a heckler catcalled her during her set, she ripped her shirt off and did the rest of the set without it.
Marvel's Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur are getting their own animated series
Heck yes! And if you haven't been following this book, you've been missing out.
Astrid Deserved Better
I wrote an article about How to Train Your Dragon 2 and the animation industry creative process. Some of the nuance didn't survive to the final product. Here's what got left out.
Ma Rainey
Ma Rainey made dozens of recordings, wore diamond tiaras and beaded gowns, and was once arrested for an intimate party involving several other women.
Random Princesses
Mary Bowser
Brilliant undercover spy who posed as a slave to spy on - and attempt to burn down - the Confederate…
Ilona Zrinyi
When her rebel husband was imprisoned, she continued the movement - by holding a castle under siege for three long, lonely years.
Isabel Godin des Odonais
To reunite with her husband, she went on a months-long trek through the jungle -- and was the only survivor.
Qiu Jin
This revolutionary martyred herself to help rid China of the Qing dynasty.
Penta
When her brother of this fairytale princess decided to marry her, she warded him off by cutting off her own hands. Then she gave birth to a dog. It got weirder after that.