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Selvi
Selvi escaped an abusive marriage she was forced into age 14. She went on to become South India's first female taxi driver, and an advocate to prevent other young girls from being forced to marry.
Gertrude Sanford Legendre
Legendre worked for the Office of Strategic Services, a precursor to the CIA, during World War II. When she was captured by the Nazis, she managed to trick her captors and keep her knowledge secret.
First female Rangers in the US Army
Kristen Griest and Shaye Haver became the first women to graduate from the US Army's Ranger School.
Ancient Egyptian pre-nups
In Egypt, women had the same legal rights as men. They could sue, be sued, own property, and enter into contracts, including prenuptial (and postnuptial) agreements.
State of the Project
A lot of the work going into RP this month hasn't been super visible. Here's what I've been up to.
New Wonder Woman trailer
A new trailer for the Wonder Woman movie was released. It looks pretty great.
Priss Fotheringham's Novelty Sex Act: "Chucking"
This 17th-century London prostitute collected money - literally - with a pretty novel sex act.
Sandy Robson
Robson paddled from Germany to Australia, a distance of over 23,000 km (or 14,000 miles), over five and a half years.
The real Q is a woman, British chief spy reveals
“If any of you would like to join us … the real-life Q is looking forward to meeting you and I’m pleased to report that the real-life Q is a woman.”
Fannie Quigley
This intrepid explorer used mine shafts as a beer fridge and shot bears to get lard for pie crusts.
Random Princesses
Calafia
Black, Muslim warrior queen of a tribe of griffin-riding Amazons - and the honest-to-god namesake of California.
Marguerite de la Rocque
Stranded by her cruel relative on an abandoned Canadian island (literally named the Isle of Demons), she survived for two years by hunting animals and eventually made it back to France.
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...?
Freydís Eiríksdóttir
When attacked by Native Americans, this pregnant viking bared her chest, brandished a sword, and took them on by herself. And she won.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
The godmother of rock and roll, this black bisexual singer fused gospel and pop to blaze her own way across the Jim Crow-era south.
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.
Anahit
This Armenian folktale princess saved her hapless beau - by making him get a job.
Princess Pyeonggang
This princess held her father to his word in the most unexpected way: by demanding to marry the stupidest man in Korea.
Mekatilili wa Menza
When colonial powers went too far, she rebelled in the most stylish way possible: dancing from town to town. It was surprisingly effective.
Tomyris
When the most powerful man in the world made plans on her country, she: turned down his marriage proposal, destroyed his armies, and defiled his head so famously that she became legend for centuries thereafter.