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“Ovaries so big, we don’t need no f-ing balls.”
Ovarian Psycos: Modern-Day Charras on Steel Horses
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Jessie Graff
First Woman to Finish Stage One of the American Ninja Warriors National Finals
Already the first woman to scale American Ninja Warrior's 14 1/2-foot Warped Wall, Graff has also now become the first woman to complete stage one of the show's national finals.Aimee Semple McPherson
The Incredible Disappearing Evangelist
In the 1920s, Sister Aimee was one of the most popular evangelists in the United States, so her sudden disappearance in 1926 made national headlines. It also led to accusations of kidnapping, adultery, and hoaxes.Cree Summer
Voice Actor Extraordinaire
Summer has a career as a voice actor that spans over three decades and well over 200 roles. Chances are you've heard speak some lines before.Jeanne Córdova
Latina Lesbian Pioneer
Editor of The Lesbian Tide & Los Angeles Free Press. President of the Stonewall Democratic Club. Co-founder of the Gay and Lesbian Caucus of the Democratic Party. Publisher of the Community Yellow Pages. The list of what she did as an activist and journalist is voluminous.Tig Notaro
Laughing at her own mastectomies
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.Eulalia Perez
The woman who owned Pasadena
This working-class Mexican woman once owned a huge chunk of the greater Los Angeles area -- until she was cheated out of the deed.Domino Harvey
Model/Bounty Hunter
Starting her young life as a model, she soon turned to bounty hunting - and eventually to drugs. She got a movie in 2005, but it couldn't hope to cover her complexity.Susan Finley
NASA Engineer for Half a Century
Ms. Finley has been working on the US's space program since January 1958, several months before NASA even existed.Ronda Rousey
World Judo champion and undefeated UFC boxer
First American to ever win the world championships in Judo, undefeated UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion, one of the only women in the Expendables movies, and the person who got her into it all? Her mom.Ovarian Psycos
Modern-Day Charras on Steel Horses
The Ovarian Psycos describe themselves on their website as "womxn of color, sisters, mothers, overgrown knuckleheads, riders, writers, students, wage slaves, hustlers, artists, MCs, poets, intellectuals, radical scholars, passionate womxn, environmentalists, urban farmers, medicine womxn, militants, feminists, renaissance womxn, fearless fierro riders and modern-day charras on steel horses!"Related Posts
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