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Munira Khalif
Most high schoolers are happy to get accepted by one of the eight Ivy League schools. Munira Khalif got into all eight. And that's just the start of her accomplishments.
The Cursed Girl
This is an utterly stunning piece of work. Set aside 10-15 minutes and enjoy one of the most cinematic experiences I've found in some time.
Barbie creating "Shero" dolls
Six one-of-a-kind dolls modeled after real-life women will be created and auctioned off.
Susan Burton
This woman has spent her life fighting the prison industrial complex, giving ex-convicts a new lease on life.
Inge Ginsberg
As a Holocaust survivor, her poetry was too dark for some, but it was perfect for death metal.
The Roaring Girls of Queer London
A great, in depth article covers Shakespeare-era London's ruffians - including RP Moll Cutpurse!
Rukhsana Kausar
An Indian farmer’s daughter disarmed a terrorist leader who broke into her home, attacked him with an axe and shot…
All-Female Security for All-Female 1970s Bank in Philippines
This is a 1971 photo of an all-female security crew of an all-women bank in the Philippines. And it's awesome.
Tish and Snooky Bellomo
Manic Panic, which has become practically synonymous with extremely vivid shades of hair dye, was started in 1977 by these two punk rock sisters.
10-year-old saves her local bookmobile
When she found out her local bookmobile was about to be decommissioned, this 10-year-old pulled a Leslie Knope and went to the city council.
Random Princesses
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
Through years of unrelenting protest, this Nigerian teacher felled a king, won women the right to vote, and taught all of Africa how to protest.
Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones)
This leader of the labor movement suffered imprisonment, defamation, and untold misery to battle against forces that most of us just take for granted.
Vasilisa Vasilyevna
When the Tsar became hellbent on nailing down her gender, this clever gender-nonconforming heroine kept him guessing to the end.
Kurmanjan Datka
A clever woman who rose from obscurity to become a political force, playing nations against each other to protect her people.
Ada Lovelace
History's first computer programmer, who invented algorithms for the first computer - which didn't even exist during her lifetime, so…
Chiyome Mochizuki
Recruited widows, orphans, and prostitutes into an all-woman ninja spy group, the largest in Asia at the time.
Rebecca Lukens
First her father died. Then her sons. Then her husband. Pregnant, saddled with debt, a failing company, and an overbearing mother, Rebecca Lukens rolled up her sleeves and showed the world what she was made of: iron.
Emmeline Pankhurst
This unassuming middle-aged woman became one of Britain's most notorious terrorists in her unyielding quest to win women the right to vote.
Toregene Khatun
Although her tribe was destroyed and she was forced into an unwanted marriage, this indomitable woman came to run the world's largest empire - with a woman as her companion.
Jane Dieulafoy
A phenomenally successful archaeologist who became a fashion icon for wearing men's clothing.