April 13, 2018 The Feminist Lunch That Broke Boundaries 150 Years Ago After being denied entry to a dinner honoring Charles Dickens, reporter Jane Croly made her own, supper club, featuring only “risky and outré” unaccompanied women.
April 9, 2018 New organization aims to get black women into animation “[This organization] is designed to make them visible, but not only make them visible — get them work, get them jobs, and build a community for them.”
April 2, 2018 Denmark Honors Plantation-Burning ‘Rebel Queen’ With New Statue She helped lead an uprising that burnt down 50 plantations and most of a Danish colonial town - now Queen Mary is getting her own statue - the first public statue of a black woman in the country.
March 28, 2018 in Modern Worthies Beate Klarsfeld Professional Nazi Hunter Together with her husband Serge, this woman has spent her life tracking down war criminals and bringing them to justice.
March 21, 2018 The Women Resurrecting An Ancient Epic of Women Warriors Uzbeki women are putting on a stage retelling of the tale "Forty Girls" about a teen girl who rejects marriage in favor of hanging out with 40 horsewomen on an island.
March 16, 2018 Finding Sheila D Minor A Twitter thread hellbent on identifying the only woman at a 1971 whale biology conference took a couple (great) turns.
March 12, 2018 Canadian currency will now feature its first Canadian woman Civil rights icon Viola Desmond is often compared to Rosa Parks, for refusing to take a lesser seat based on racial discrimination laws.
March 12, 2018 in Weird History Today I learned that WW2 spies used exploding camel shit to disable Nazi tanks in northern Africa. Giving new meaning to "blowing shit up."
March 7, 2018 Frida Kahlo And Other Historic Women Are Being Made Into Barbies The lineup is more wide-ranging than expected -- but Kahlo's estate is not pleased.