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Badass Women for International Women's Day
In honor of International Women’s Day, I tweeted about every single historical badass woman I’ve ever illustrated online.
Alice Ball
For decades, the world's best leprosy treatment was the work of an unknown black chemist - whose work was stolen by her successor.
RP is Top Rated at Amazon!
Apparently Amazon's physical store has the RP book in its "Top Rated" section (due to 94% 5-star ratings)! Awesome!
First female Rangers in the US Army
Kristen Griest and Shaye Haver became the first women to graduate from the US Army's Ranger School.
"Fastest Rising Startup" says diversity and inclusion are major keys to success
When software company Slack was awarded Fastest Rising Startup, instead of the typical white men, four black women stepped up to accept the award.
Vintage pictures of Female Firefighters
Some of those helmets are pretty awesome.
Betty Pack
Betty Pack worked for MI6 by seducing men to obtain military secrets, even helping to crack the Enigma code in World War II.
Woman on a Wire
The well-dressed woman doing this stunning high-wire act is to this day unknown! The best guess we have is celebrity…
Susan la Flesche Picotte
The first Native American medical doctor endured back-breaking labor, years spent alone, and institutional racism to better the lives of her people.
RP on Talk Nerdy!
The awesome Cara Santa Maria had me on her Talk Nerdy podcast to talk about the RP book.
Random Princesses
Wu Zetian
The only female emperor of China in history, her ruthless rise to power makes Game of Thrones look like a day at the beach.
Yaa Asantewaa
As an old woman, led an incredibly successful rebellion against British colonialism, known as The War of the Golden Stool,…
Calafia
Black, Muslim warrior queen of a tribe of griffin-riding Amazons - and the honest-to-god namesake of California.
Micaela Bastidas
The strident partner of the eponymously-named Tupac Amaru Rebellion of native peoples against the Spanish, she handled army and bureaucratic…
Isabel Godin des Odonais
To reunite with her husband, she went on a months-long trek through the jungle -- and was the only survivor.
Annie Jump Cannon
This astronomer threw off all the social conventions of her day to pursue her one true calling: the stars.
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.
Hatshepsut
One of the greatest pharaohs to ever live, she built up Egypt so much that a generations-long sustained effort to erase her from history couldn't do the trick.
Sayyida al-Hurra
Indomitable pirate queen who ran Morocco and ruined Portuguese trade.
Banu Goshasp
This superhero of early Iranian mythology starred in her own stories, and plenty of them.