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On Tirgatao's clothing (and tattoos)
A reader talks about ancient clothing, and I deconstruct some of the work behind the Tirgatao entry!
Aisha Bakari Gombi
Once she hunted antelope. Now she hunts Boko Haram.
World champion bodybuilder comes out as genderfluid transgender
The world record holder for weightlifting in her weight class recently came out as transgender.
Iraqi national cyclists
"People stare a lot and sometimes they shout, 'Why are you cycling?' ... I say, 'It's none of your business!'"
The next Einstein?
New Einstein or not, she's still an impressive scientist in her own right.
Edith Clifford
Edith Clifford was a sword swallower of such skill that her closing act involved a cannon firing a bayonet down her throat.
Dawn Shaughnessy
Shaughnessy leads the team that helped discover six of the elements of the periodic table.
How to Shut Down an Islamophobe in Six Tweets
For #MuslimWomensDay, I posted a collection of awesome Muslim women on Twitter - and an Islamophobe took exception to that.
Maria Fernanda Pineda Calero
Calero works to educate and train other girls on their sexual, reproductive, and citizenship rights.
Random Princesses
Nitocris
When her brother was killed, this pharaoh took her time cooking up revenge.
La Llorona
Mexico's infamous "weeping ghost" has many incarnations: a jilted widow, a slave princess, a milk addict, a coffee bag, and a pair of panties.
Ida Laura Pfeiffer
Starting her travels at 45 years old, this globetrotter became a worldwide sensation for going boldly where no woman had gone before.
La Jaguarina
This undefeated half-Spaniard fencer was a household name in the 1800s - only to vanish into retirement (and obscurity) when she ran out of people to fight.
Soraya Tarzi
1920s Afghanistan was a progressive and rapidly-modernizing country in large part to the most powerful, empathic, and maligned queen it had ever seen.
Stephanie St. Clair
This audacious black gangster fought the Italian mob for control of Harlem and won, taunting them in full-page newspaper ads as she went.
Marjana
The actual hero of the Ali Baba myth, this slave girl saves the titular character by singlehandedly dispatching the forty thieves - without him even knowing.
Sarah Biffin
Born without arms or legs, this artist learned to write, sew, and paint with her mouth - and came to work for kings and queens.
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.
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.