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Inuit Folk Tales pt 1
Inuit folk tales are fucking weird, man. UPDATE: inquisitive reader bookwyrm1216 found the continuation of the Penis Lake story! Truly,…
RP Theatre: Negotiation Tactics!
In which the RPs teach you how to negotiate!
Women of color in the British suffragette movement
Dr. Mukherjee, a researcher working on a project on Indian suffragettes, shares some information about the diversity, or lack thereof, of British suffragettes.
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.
Hidden Figures
An upcoming movie, Hidden Figures, tells the story of African-American mathematicians who helped get America's space program off the ground.
America's first female sheriff
When a rich and powerful man damaged her car, she sued for payment. When he started threatening her to drop it, she took up carrying a gun and ended up becoming appointed Under Sheriff.
Tanya Smith
Tanya Smith practices Historical European Martial Arts--like fencing, but instead of a lightweight rapier she uses a three-pound longsword that's almost as tall as she is. To entice more women into the sport she organized a tournament by women, for women, called Fecht Yeah.
Miss Hokusai
Miss Hokusai is an animated movie that focuses on the life of painter Ouei Katsushika.
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.
Random Princesses
Pasiphaë
This mythical queen gave birth to the minotaur and cursed her unfaithful husband with the world's weirdest magic STD -- but was her whole story just a smear campaign?
Andamana
Indigenous lawmaker who united warring tribes under a unified code of laws that she made herself.
Kumander Liwayway
When the Japanese invaded the Philippines, this beauty queen traded face powders for explosive ones.
Anne Hutchinson
This uneducated rebel preacher upstaged New England magistrates so much that they founded Harvard University in part to prevent women like her from gaining power.
Marie Mancini
Joined her sister Hortense Mancini in escaping from an equally abusive marriage, making headlines (and trouble) all across Europe in…
Mai Bhago
This Sikh warrior saint led 40 deserters back into battle and in so doing, possibly saved her entire religion from extinction.
Irena Sendler
This Polish nurse sacrificed her safety, her marriage, her very family to save 2500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust.
Xtabay
Chaste and virtuous woman spends life assuming she's better than her more sex-positive neighbor, and for this haughtiness becomes in…
Mother Lu
When a government magistrate unjustly killed her son, this unassuming middle-aged wife spent years raising an army to topple that same government.
Isabella of France
After years of neglect and abuse from her husband, this queen raised an army and took over England for herself.