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Rejected Princesses poster now on sale
Your requests for a poster have been heard. Now you can have some RP swag for your wall.
RP Theatre: Negotiation Tactics!
In which the RPs teach you how to negotiate!
Houston, we have a book deal
There is going to be a Rejected Princess book. It's being published by Dey Street, an imprint of Harper Collins. It’s going to be out in 2016. There will be around a hundred entries.
And I’m totally freaking out about it.
Meet the Amazons
We kick off Amazon Week by meeting Worthy of Armor, Don’t Fail, Princess, Battle Cry, and Hot Flanks - and exploring the historical evidence for amazons!
Rejected Princess Theatre: The Bet
In which Julie "La Maupin" d'Aubigny, and Catalina "The Lieutenant Nun" de Erauso have a friendly wager.
Introducing the Master List of Historical Women in Combat
Women have been in combat roles since the dawn of civilization. Here's proof.
Rejected Princess Theatre: Risky Business
In which the Rejected Princesses learn to play Risk.
Rejected Princesses Halloween Showcase!
The incredible members of the University of Texas Students for Wema organization have unveiled their Halloween costumes -- and they're all RPs! The results are amazing.
The RP Store is Now Open!
Just in time for the holidays, I've updated the RP store with all manner of posters, t-shirts, and the like!
Hello NPR!
After an interview with NPR’s All Things Considered, I thought it best to post a followup.
Random Princesses
Fredegund
Possibly the most cartoonishly evil woman to have ever existed, this Merovingian queen was an endless source of assassination attempts - including, on one memorable occasion, her own young daughter.
Isabelle Eberhardt
This undefinable adventurer's life burnt bright but short: a wildcard of the Algerian revolution, she survived an assassination attempt by sabre, and died in a freak desert flood.
Madam C.J. Walker
America's ostensible first female self-made millionaire was a black beauty magnate who did it all for her daughter.
Keumalahayati
The first naval admiral of modern times, she protected her country from foreign invaders with aplomb.
Agontime
The world's fiercest all-female fighting force, and the incredible legend of how they rescued their deposed queen from slavery in Brazil.
Trung Trac and Trung Nhi
Sisters who led an army on elephant-back to overthrow oppressive Chinese rule and establish a short-lived Vietnamese kingdom.
Ada Lovelace
History's first computer programmer, who invented algorithms for the first computer - which didn't even exist during her lifetime, so…
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.
Mai Bhago
This Sikh warrior saint led 40 deserters back into battle and in so doing, possibly saved her entire religion from extinction.
Virginia Hall
This "most dangerous of all spies" staged daring mountaintop escapes, prison breaks, and railway bombings -- all on her trusty wooden leg, codenamed "Cuthbert."