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The Highest Compliment
The best holiday present I got this year was messages like these.
Where'd You Go?
I've had some pretty wild depression the past couple years. I'm finally starting to work through it - with art.
Nevada's only female bounty hunter
VICE interviewed Uyen Vu, who professes to be Nevada's only active, licensed female bounty hunter, about her job.
SCA veteran bests burglar with sword
When a burglar broke into Karen Dolley's home, he didn't know she had a sword and years of practice using one.
Ask Jason: Have you ever wrote about women with disability?
Yes, many times!
Piera Aiello
Forced to marry a mobster, she escaped, ran for parliament and won -- while obscuring her face. But now, she's showing it freely.
Hundreds Of Armed Women Defend Mexican City From Cartels
In the words of an armed mother of two: "Women are brave and we are capable of defending our town."
For 19-year-old campaign manager, it's not just politics, it's personal.
After Logan Church's mother died giving birth to her, a law was passed - and later repealed by her mother's OB-GYN-turned-politician. Now she's devoting herself to unseating him.
Sor Juana and Lyudmila Pavlichenko get their turn in the sun!
Proving RP is ahead of its time, two previous entries have just gotten their own TV series and a movie released in America!
Two Navajo women may have been the first women officially enlisted in the US Army
Amateur historian David C'de Baca recently discovered that two Navajo women were officially enlisted as Army Scouts in 1886.
Random Princesses
Arwa al-Sulayhi
The greatest ruler of Yemeni history, she defeated her numerous foes to usher the country into its golden age.
Vera Peters
When she was told to "go do women's work" after upstaging the medical community in her treatment of Hodgkin's disease, Dr. Vera Peters revolutionized breast cancer treatment through years of painstaking, meticulous work.
Luisa Capetillo
In 1915, this rowdy Puerto Rican activist was arrested for wearing pants in public. It wouldn't be the last time she wore pants, or got arrested.
Vasilisa Vasilyevna
When the Tsar became hellbent on nailing down her gender, this clever gender-nonconforming heroine kept him guessing to the end.
Black Agnes
When the English laid siege to her castle home, this Scottish woman bedeviled them until they gave up.
Molly Craig
The daughter of an aboriginal woman and a white man, her race led her to be kidnapped by the Australian government - only for her to escape and walk across the continent to get home... twice.
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.
Madam C.J. Walker
America's ostensible first female self-made millionaire was a black beauty magnate who did it all for her daughter.
Sermerssuaq
An Inuit woman so strong nobody could even beat her lice in arm-wrestling, her story just gets stranger the closer you look.
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.