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Weird History: I'll cut your hair to make my rope
This week in interesting historical anecdotes: 5th century BC - Thasian women cut their hair to make rope for military…
New ‘She-Ra’ series designs released!
And I love them.
Amelia Bloomer
The publisher of America's first newspaper by and for women - and someone sadly overshadowed by her more-famous contemporaries.
Aymara women mountain climbers
An AP photographer took pictures of a group of Aymara women climbing Huayna Potosi in traditional clothing. They work as porters and cooks but some aspire to become mountaineer guides themselves.
Women medical pioneers
In 1885, three women from Japan, India, and Syria studied to become some of the first female doctors of their countries.
Gisella Perl
"I learned that [pregnant women] were all taken to the research block to be used as guinea pigs, and then two lives would be thrown into the crematorium. I decided that never again would there be a pregnant woman in Auschwitz.''
Bow Sim Mark
Donnie Yen is cool, but his mother is MUCH cooler - she started the first Wushu school in the United States, and is one of the grandmasters of the art form.
Lydia Pinkham, the first woman to user her image to sell merchandise
In 1879, the Pinkham family started an advertising campaign for Lydia Pinkham's vegetable compound which used a portrait of its creator. Surprising no-one familiar with internet comments, the public responded with jeers and harassment.
27 pictures of historical suffragists
Today is midterm elections in America, so let's share some historical pictures of the suffragist struggle. This one in particular is pretty great.
RP Halloween Cosplay for Charity!
A reader wrote in to let us know about an awesome project: using RP cosplay to teach kids about badass women, supporting a Kenyan orphanage in the process!
Random Princesses
Savitribai Phule
In fighting the bias of the caste system to spread education, this woman brought knowledge to girls across India.
Agontime
The world's fiercest all-female fighting force, and the incredible legend of how they rescued their deposed queen from slavery in Brazil.
Mai Bhago
This Sikh warrior saint led 40 deserters back into battle and in so doing, possibly saved her entire religion from extinction.
The Valiant Ladies of Potosi
Eustaquia de Souza and Ana Lezama de Urinza, two sword-and-gun-toting lesbian teen vigilantes - 17th century Bolivia's answer to Batman.
Emmy Noether
Revolutionized the field of mathematics, yet was persecuted for being Jewish and paid a pittance for her visionary teaching work.
Cut Nyak Dhien
When her (second) rebel husband was killed, this heroine of Indonesian revolution took over the fight against the Dutch.
Shajar al-Durr
Muslim sultan who took the throne, defeated Louis IX in battle, ransomed him back to France for 30% of their GDP --- and did it all in secret.
Marie Mancini
Joined her sister Hortense Mancini in escaping from an equally abusive marriage, making headlines (and trouble) all across Europe in…
The Night Witches
This all-female civilian volunteer unit of the WW2 Soviet military overcame a lack of training, equipment, and faith to pull off one of the greatest underdog feats in human history and in so doing become Germany's worst nightmare.
Marjana
The actual hero of the Ali Baba myth, this slave girl saves the titular character by singlehandedly dispatching the forty thieves - without him even knowing.