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Charlotte Badger (1778-?)
Convict, Pirate, Adopted Maori, Mom
The first European woman to end up in New Zealand, Charlotte Badger was part pirate, part adopted Maori, and part mom. Which part is which is somewhat lost to history.
RP Theatre
Rejected Princesses Theatre: La Maupin’s Guide to Online Dating
In which Julie "La Maupin" d'Aubigny gives some stellar love life advice. Well, some love life advice. Uh. Let's just go with advice.
Collection: Women in Business >

Angela Jimenez

Tomboy, daughter, spy, soldier, foster mom, innkeeper, gold miner, nurse, activist; veteran: Angela Jimenez doesn't need a movie so much as a mini-series.

Man-deok Kim

When famine hit Jeju island, where she'd been exiled since birth, this prostitute-turned-businesswoman spent her fortune to feed everyone.

Mary Anning

When her father died, leaving her lower-class family in debt, this indomitable woman worked tirelessly and became one of history's greatest fossil collectors.
Sermerssuaq
The strongest, strangest Inuit woman ever
An Inuit woman so strong nobody could even beat her lice in arm-wrestling, her story just gets stranger the closer you look.
Masako Hojo (1157-1225)
The Nun Shogun
When her shogun husband cheated on her, she raised an army and destroyed the other woman's house. Later she deposed her incompetent son to become the first nun to rule Japan.
Iara
Brazil's Lady of the Lake
When this indigenous Brazilian warrior mermaid proved too awesome for her tribe, she just took up residence in the water, and started an aquatic harem of passers-by.
Collection: Martyrs >

Hypatia

The first female mathematician in recorded history, and one of the luminaries of the ancient world - but her grisly death at the hands of a mob was only the start of her troubles.

Noor Inayat Khan

Pacifist Indian princess who gave up everything of herself to hold the line in occupied Paris during World War 2.

Mariya Oktyabrskaya

When her husband was killed in WW2, she sold all their belongings, bought a tank, named it Fighting Girlfriend, and started killing Nazis.
RP Theatre
Rejected Princess Theatre: Risky Business
In which the Rejected Princesses learn to play Risk.
Hester Stanhope (1776-1839)
The Desert Queen
100 years before Lawrence of Arabia, this British woman traveled the Middle East by herself, surviving shipwrecks, plagues, and Bedouin attacks in the process.
Ranavalona I (1778-1861)
The Female Caligula
This brutal sovereign's reign saw her outlaw clapping, pioneer death by feet-kissing, and design giant weaponized scissors - but are we only getting one side of the story...?
Collection: Hindus >

Savitribai Phule

In fighting the bias of the caste system to spread education, this woman brought knowledge to girls across India.

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.

Onake Obavva

When enemies invaded her town while her husband was on lunch break, she grabbed a nearby pestle and saved the day by achieving the high score in soldier whack-a-mole.
Naziq al-Abid (1898-1959)
The Sword of Damascus
She traded a life of privilege for one spent fighting for justice on both literal and political battlefields so tirelessly that even exiling her five times couldn't keep her down.
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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!
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    Yael

    Yael

    Saved the Jewish people by hammering a tent spike through an unsuspecting house guest's head.
    La Jaguarina

    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.
    Anita Garibaldi

    Anita Garibaldi

    This heroine of South America and Italy fought in numerous civil wars alongside her husband, Giuseppe Garibaldi, often while pregnant…
    Kate Shelley

    Kate Shelley

    To save an oncoming passenger train, this 15-year-old girl climbed across a collapsing bridge, with nothing but flashes of lightning to keep her from falling to her death in the flooding river below -- a river that had already killed her father.
    Sister Rosetta Tharpe

    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.
    Rosalind Franklin

    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.
    Mkabayi kaJama

    Mkabayi kaJama

    One of the most powerful women in Zulu history, this cursed princess did what was necessary to protect the realm.
    Black Agnes

    Black Agnes

    When the English laid siege to her castle home, this Scottish woman bedeviled them until they gave up.
    Christine de Pizan

    Christine de Pizan

    When her husband unexpectedly died, she rolled up her sleeves and became one of the greatest authors of the age to keep food on the table. She wrote passionate defenses of her gender (and military treatises!) that were centuries ahead of their time.
    Marie Equi

    Marie Equi

    Once upon a time, there was a lesbian Wild West abortion doctor. She once horsewhipped a guy in the face and was tossed in San Quentin Prison for sedition. To the surprise of no one, she lived in Portland.
    Pasiphaë

    Pasiphaë

    This mythical queen gave birth to the minotaur and cursed her unfaithful husband with the world's weirdest magic STD -- but was her whole story just a smear campaign?
    Laskarina Bouboulina

    Laskarina Bouboulina

    Born in a prison cell, this revolutionary financed and led a large chunk of Greece's navy to victory in their fight for independence.
    Harriet Tubman

    Harriet Tubman

    Escaped slave turned slave rescuer turned plantation-torching Union spymaster, she was part Moses, part Joan of Arc, part Spider-Man.
    Catalina de Erauso

    Catalina de Erauso

    After escaping from a convent, this swashbuckler had the strength to chase her dreams: which were apparently to drink, fight, and womanize.
    Marie Marvingt

    Marie Marvingt

    Ludicrously over-accomplished athlete who invented flying ambulances and won the only gold medal ever awarded by the French Academy of Sports for "all sports" - yes, all of them.

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