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Gerda Geddes and Sophia Delza
Prior to the "kung fu craze" of the '70s, two women were already spreading tai chi in Europe and America.
Miss Hokusai
Miss Hokusai is an animated movie that focuses on the life of painter Ouei Katsushika.
Aloha Wanderwell
It's not every woman that leaves home at 16 to befriend Chinese bandits, join the Siberian army, and film indigenous Brazilians for the first time - but Aloha Wanderwell, the World's Most Traveled Girl, wasn't every woman.
Maud Wagner
Wagner was a circus aerialist and contortionist who learned how to tattoo from the man who would become her husband.
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.
RPs in a Fan's Collage for Women's History Month
Reader Cassie wrote in to show off her usage of various Rejected Princesses in a great collage she made for Women's History Month.
Wife crashes her own funeral, horrifying the husband who paid to have her killed
Noela Rukundo's husband paid several men thousands of dollars to have her killed. Imagine his surprise when she showed up at the funeral distinctly un-murdered.
Fragrant Concubine: China's first animated princess
medievalpoc: barbotrobot submitted to medievalpoc: FRAGRANT CONCUBINE ALERT!!! From the link: Chinese Government Tries to Quell Unrest with an Animated…
Nigerian comics publisher focuses on female superheroes
"We wanted female characters that would become icons to the African girl growing up to give them something to aspire to that they too can be heroes and it’s not an all male field."
Random Princesses
Rosalind Franklin
The three men who accepted the Nobel Prize for "the most important scientific discovery of the 20th century" neglected to mention one thing: they owed much of their success to one brash, brilliant, and overlooked female scientist.
Sigrid the Haughty
When some scrubs hit on her, she burnt them alive. When a king slapped her across the face, she obliterated his kingdom. Sigrid the Haughty was not to be messed with.
Pingyang
This unlikely heroine created her own Woman's Army of 70,000 soldiers through good manners and political savvy - and then used it to overthrow one of China's greatest douchebags.
Theodora
Sex worker who became empress of the Byzantine Empire, and used her political power to safeguard her interests, and her…
Taytu Betul
This stubborn empress led her native Ethiopia to do the unthinkable - defeat one of the major European powers in war.
Noor Inayat Khan
Pacifist Indian princess who gave up everything of herself to hold the line in occupied Paris during World War 2.
Elizabeth Bisland
Rose from poverty to become a respected journalist who raced Nellie Bly around the world.
Alice B. Clement
Chicago detective whose crime-busting exploits grew so popular she had her own newspaper series and starred in her own movie.
Osh-Tisch
The last Crow nation baté (Two Spirit mystic) in history, she earned her name -- which means "Finds Them and Kills Them" -- by tirelessly fighting to preserve her way of life.
Trinidad Tecson
Turned into a revolutionary in middle age, this mother became one of the Philippines most heralded women.