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Vera Atkins gets her own movie!
The woman who led dozens of female WW2 spies is getting her own movie!
Female action stars of the 1910s
In the 1910s, women dominated movie serials as action stars, with around 60 serials comprising around 800 episodes. So where did all the female action stars go?
Lin Zhao
When jailed for being a political dissident, Lin Zhao continued to write anti-Mao screeds using hairpins, bamboo, and her own blood as ink.
The boxing girls of Kenya
How a boxing academy in one of Nairobi's toughest neighbourhoods is teaching girls much more than how to throw a punch.
Minnie Dean
An unlicensed foster mom in an era desperately in need of them, she was unjustly made out to be a bloodthirsty murderer when one of the children in her care died of an accident.
Warm-up Sketch
Working out a design for the book.
Explaining Cultural Appropriation
An erudite pair of 16-year-olds made a history report well worth watching.
Meet the Hunter Troop: Norway's tough-as-nails female soldiers
Conscription was extended to Norwegian women last year and they made up about 25% of the 8,000 youth recruited.
RP/Hetalia Fan Fiction!
A devoted reader took the idea of Rejected Princesses and ran with it -- all the way to fanfiction.net!
Clearing the record on Nzinga and others
I’ve made corrections to almost all of the entries since initially launching this last Wednesday. I highly recommend going back…
Random Princesses
Cut Nyak Dhien
When her (second) rebel husband was killed, this heroine of Indonesian revolution took over the fight against the Dutch.
Yennenga
An unbeatable warrior princess who just wanted to have kids - and founded a new nation in her quest to…
Mata Hari
This amateur dancer escaped a life of abuse by pretending to be an Indonesian princess - and eventually became a victim of the maniacal world of espionage.
Velu Nachiyar
With a dead husband and a hostile foreign country on her hands, this Indian queen did the unthinkable - turned her loyal servants into some of the first suicide bombers in recorded history.
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.
Benazir Bhutto
The exiled daughter of a deposed ruler, she could have been a fairytale bridge between worlds - but fairy tales are not real. Benazir, whose name means "without flaw," was anything but.
Qiu Jin
This revolutionary martyred herself to help rid China of the Qing dynasty.
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.
Tamar of Georgia
Saint, sovereign, and fiercely independent woman, she quashed two rebellions from her ex-husband, expanded her nation's borders, and ushered in a golden age.
Nellie Bly
Daring journalist who infiltrated insane asylums, exposed slavery rings, and raced around the world in under 80 days.