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College of William & Mary names Katherine Rowe as its first female president
She's founder of a local Ultimate Frisbee league on top of all her other credentials, so she's clearly a good fit for academia.
Dungeons, Dragons, and Rejected Princesses
A reader took the Amazon Week illustration from a bit ago and started a Dungeons and Dragons campaign with them as characters. I can die happy now.
Artgasm: Rejected Princesses and Tough Mothers with Jason Porath
I went *deep* on this podcast with my friend Allison Moon. I think it turned out pretty great.
First airline founded by a black woman now operates internationally
Fly Blue Crane, the first airline founded by a black woman, is expanding to international flights with its service from Cape Town, South Africa, to Windhoek, Namibia.
Tsuneko Sasamoto
She became Japan's first female photojournalist at the age of 25. 76 years later she's still going strong.
‘Sade’, A Pitch About An African Princess, Sells To Disney
'bout damn time.
Silent movie stuntwomen
In the early 20th century, people debated whether women were "fit" to drive cars. But the movies accepted women who could drive them, race them, and crash them.
Amelia Bloomer
The publisher of America's first newspaper by and for women - and someone sadly overshadowed by her more-famous contemporaries.
Princess Buttercup became an Amazon General, All Dreams Now Viable
In the interests of *all* dreams being viable, I would point out she's also the ethically dubious politician Claire Underwood in House of Cards.
Ingeborg Rapoport
After being refused the opportunity to defend her doctoral thesis due to Nazi anti-Semitism, she returned to it 77 years later.
Random Princesses
Tin Hinan
The greatest leader of the nomadic Tuareg tribe of northern Africa, who put their men in veils and let their…
Sayyida al-Hurra
Indomitable pirate queen who ran Morocco and ruined Portuguese trade.
Gouyen
When an enemy killed her husband, this Apache woman broke the rules of her tribe to get revenge - and in so doing, became one of her tribe's greatest heroes.
Nellie Bly
Daring journalist who infiltrated insane asylums, exposed slavery rings, and raced around the world in under 80 days.
Juana Azurduy de Padilla
This revolutionary (and mother of five) should have been the namesake of Bolivia - and that's the opinion of Simon Bolivar, the actual namesake of Bolivia!
Ada Lovelace
History's first computer programmer, who invented algorithms for the first computer - which didn't even exist during her lifetime, so…
Jigonhsaseh
This Native American clan mother brought together 5 tribes under the Haudenosaunee Confederacy - and helped make the document that inspired the United States Constitution.
Vitka Kempner
Spy, smuggler, saboteur, partisan: this Jewish woman refused to go like a lamb to the slaughter, and fought the Nazis tooth and nail... even after the war, when she, alongside others, poisoned thousands of Nazi POWs in a revenge plot.
Kate Leigh and Tilly Devine
America had Al Capone. Sydney had Kate Leigh and Tilly Devine - who *hated* each other.
Jeanne de Clisson
When her husband was unjustly executed, this French noblewoman-turned-pirate became the terror of France.