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Katharine Blodgett Gebbie
In nearly fifty years of working for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gebbie was the director for the Physical Measurement Laboratory and its two immediate predecessors. During her time as director, four of the scientists working under her won the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Tajamul Islam
Islam started kickboxing young, and at age nine has already won national and world championships.
Marielle Franco
When she was assassinated for her critiques of the police, protests broke out across Brazil.
#ShePersisted
Maybe you saw that US politician Mitch McConnell silenced fellow US politician Elizabeth Warren from speaking, and gave a quote saying that “she persisted” despite his stern warnings. Many took exception to this. I was one of them. And I tweeted about it. At length.
Rocketeer sequel promises black woman as lead
Disney recently hired writers to script a reboot/sequel to 1991's The Rocketeer. The new movie will star a "young African-American female pilot" who takes up the Rocketeer mantle after the events of the first movie.
Why the Lolita icon?
I was using the Lolita icon for some time as my avatar on Tumblr. I changed that. Here's why.
Great-grandmother leaves care home to get her first tattoo
Sadie Sellers decided to join her granddaughter to get her first tattoo at the age of 79.
Nicole Ticea
In 2014, Nicole Ticea won first place in the British Columbia Regional Sanofi BioGENEius Challenge for her development of a faster, cheaper test for HIV.
Negin Khpalwak
Khpalwak has ignored violent threats to play music, now conducting the all-women Zohra orchestra.
Random Princesses
Carolina Maria de Jesus
Brash, funny, and difficult, this mother of three wrote her way out of extreme poverty with her uncompromising look at Brazilian society - and was alternately lauded and berated for it.
Sonya Golden Hand
Russia's greatest female thief was so slippery that even once she was re-captured after escaping from a Siberian prison, nobody was totally sure it was her.
Tatterhood
This goat-riding, spoon-wielding princess fought trolls to save her sister.
Gracia Mendes Nasi
Jewish businesswoman who saved thousands of Jews from the Inquisition by smuggling them out of the country.
Madam C.J. Walker
America's ostensible first female self-made millionaire was a black beauty magnate who did it all for her daughter.
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.
Vasilisa Vasilyevna
When the Tsar became hellbent on nailing down her gender, this clever gender-nonconforming heroine kept him guessing to the end.
Mary Bowser
Brilliant undercover spy who posed as a slave to spy on - and attempt to burn down - the Confederate…
Étaín
Mythological Irish princess who was turned into a worm, butterfly, and a pool of water; who induced the strangest pregnancy since Jesus; and who may hold the key to understanding Ireland's history.
Gudit
This Jewish-Ethiopian warrior queen took the throne, ended a millennium-old biblical dynasty, and caused a break in Ethiopia's history that has not healed to this day - or did she...?