March 24, 2018 in Modern Worthies Franca Viola The Survivor Who Refused to Marry Her Rapist In the 60s, an Italian woman was abducted and raped - and then pressured to marry her rapist. She instead took him to court and got him tossed into jail.
March 19, 2018 in Modern Worthies Marielle Franco Brazil's Anti-Police-Brutality Martyr Activist When she was assassinated for her critiques of the police, protests broke out across Brazil.
Mary Patten (1837-1861) The First American Woman to Command a Ship When her husband became deathly ill, this pregnant teen took the reins to become America's first female boat commander - all while fighting off a mutiny and keeping her husband alive.
January 3, 2018 in Modern Worthies Suzelle Poole 77-Year-Old Ballerina "Life is too short not to do what you want to do... It's never too late. So start doing what you love doing now."
December 12, 2017 in Modern Worthies Amla Ruia The Grandmother Who Built Dams This nonagenerian entrepreneur helps out villages across Rajasthan, India, by building dams.
September 12, 2017 in Modern Worthies Hailey Dawson The baseball pitcher with the 3D-printed hand Major League Baseball Teams Come Together to Help 7-Year-Old Girl with 3D-Printed Hand Fulfill her Dream – sometimes Twitter does alright by people. More on the making of Hailey hand right here. You can follow her Instagram here.
Comics Bessie Stringfield (1911-1993) The Motorcycle Queen of Miami Motorcycling across America, making her living doing stunts and transporting secret government documents, this stand-out woman found family in places she didn't expect.
Comics Mercadera (c.1245-1300) The Farmer Who Caught a Knight When this Spanish merchant went out to pick cabbages, she stumbled upon an unusual kind of pest: a French knight.
June 28, 2017 in Modern Worthies Amy Dickman The Conservationist Who Saved Lions With Dogs She turned lion hunters to lion defenders, was slept on by a lion, and got a dentist to work on a leopard - quite a story!
June 13, 2017 in Modern Worthies Zeinab Mokalled The Octagenarian Who Inspired Lebanon to Recycle This 81-year-old Lebanese woman organized her own all-female recycling team, partly to empower the women, and "partly because she thought they would do a better job."