Comics Luisa Capetillo (1879-1922) The Activist Arrested For Wearing Pants 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.
July 27, 2018 in Modern Worthies Inge Ginsberg Death Metal Grandma As a Holocaust survivor, her poetry was too dark for some, but it was perfect for death metal.
Comics Cornelia Sorabji (1866-1954) Protector. Reformer. Lawyer. One of the first Indian women to practice law, she fought against -- and inside of -- a system that held no room for her.
Comics Sarah Biffin (1784-1850) The Artist Who Painted With Her Mouth Born without arms or legs, this artist learned to write, sew, and paint with her mouth - and came to work for kings and queens.
June 11, 2018 in Modern Worthies Piera Aiello Mafia Informant Turned Politician Forced to marry a mobster, she escaped, ran for parliament and won -- while obscuring her face. But now, she's showing it freely.
May 31, 2018 in Modern Worthies Esther Morris America's First Female Justice of the Peace Fifty years before women got the federal right to vote, this legal agent became “the terror of all rogues.”
May 7, 2018 in Modern Worthies Maureen Mancuso The Teen Who Shattered a Running Record Without training, this 13-year-old shattered world records for running in 1967 -- unfortunately, it happened shortly after Kathrine Switzer's headline-making Boston marathon entry, and Mancuso's feat was all but forgotten.
Comics Anne Farquharson-Mackintosh (1723-1787) The Lady Who Became a Colonel When the true king of the Scots came to reclaim the throne, this spirited woman went up against her husband to back her chosen sovereign.
Comics Virginia Hall (1906-1982) The Most Dangerous Spy of All This "most dangerous of all spies" staged daring mountaintop escapes, prison breaks, and railway bombings -- all on her trusty wooden leg, codenamed "Cuthbert."
March 26, 2018 in Modern Worthies Millie Veasey One of the Last of the All-Black, All-Woman WW2 Unit Part of a WW2 unit that untangled a logistics nightmare, she lived to a hundred and helped run a chapter of the NAACP.