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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.
Marvel's Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur are getting their own animated series
Heck yes! And if you haven't been following this book, you've been missing out.
The Night Witches
This all-female civilian volunteer unit of the WW2 Soviet military overcame a lack of training, equipment, and faith to pull off one of the greatest underdog feats in human history and in so doing become Germany's worst nightmare.
My Young Auntie (1981)
What happens when you mix a screwball comedy, a fish-out-of-water story, and a hysterically overpowered martial arts heroine? My Young Auntie, my favorite Shaw Brothers movie.
Lúcia da Silva Teixeira
Lúcia Teixeira is a visually impaired judoka from Brazil who won second place in the 2012 Summer Paralympics, and will be competing again in the 2016 events.
Organization of nuns who infiltrate brothels to save girls aims to expand
Talitha Kum, a group of hundreds of religious sisters who pose as prostitutes to infiltrate brothels and rescue girls from sex trafficking, plans to expand its operations to 140 countries.
Olga of Kiev
Brutal princess-turned-Christian saint who burnt down enemy towns using pigeons.
Rejected Princess Theatre: Risky Business
In which the Rejected Princesses learn to play Risk.
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.
Maria Pereira
Pereira invented a surgical glue which may eventually replace the need for sutures and the resulting chance of tearing and infection.
RP at Central Michigan University
I talked to a class at CMU that actually used the RP book as a textbook.
Random Princesses
Arawelo
Somalia's ballsiest queen, she took power from men either figuratively or literally - by ordering much of the gender castrated.…
Te Ao-Kapurangi
Abducted from her tribe, this Maori woman managed to save her kinsmen and stop a war - by straddling a roof and cramming the house underneath.
Labotsibeni Gwamile LaMdluli
When her husband inadvertently sold the country to colonial forces, this queen spent the rest of her life getting it back.
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.
Alfhild
Viking princess who decided she'd rather be a pirate than get married.
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.
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.
Nellie Bly
Daring journalist who infiltrated insane asylums, exposed slavery rings, and raced around the world in under 80 days.
Emmy Noether
Revolutionized the field of mathematics, yet was persecuted for being Jewish and paid a pittance for her visionary teaching work.
Jeanne de Clisson
When her husband was unjustly executed, this French noblewoman-turned-pirate became the terror of France.