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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.
The Woman Who Thwarted Her Own Assassination
This Chechen woman foiled a Russian assassin using a hidden handgun and *bottle of blood-clotting agent*.
#Supersheroes project shows women as superheroes for escaping abusive relationships
The Lithuanian movement Women Speak created a new project for abuse survivors. "Instead of talking about women as victims, we wanted to portray them as #supersheroes. Our movement wanted to empower women who were brave enough to exit violent relationships."
Kakenya Ntaiya
At the age of seven, Kakenya Ntaiya made a bargain with her father: she would undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) if he agreed to let her finish her education.
7 Tough Women from the Wild West
Most people know of famous men from the Wild West, but here's a list of seven women you might not know.
RP AMA
I did an AMA on Reddit's /r/books.
Sexagenarians take down carjacker
Miriam Ben-Shalom and Karen Weiss were on a date when they encountered the assailant. Ben-Shalom, a former drill sergeant, quickly subdued him.
Dozens of emoji introduced to provide male and female options
Some emoji that were previously restricted to just men or women now have options for both.
Tomoe Gozen
Fearsome undefeated samurai warrior who was "a match for any god or demon," and is one of Japan's greatest heroines…
Co.Create covers the RP book!
Co.Create (a division of FastCompany) covered the RP book with an interview where they ask me my thoughts on the election.
Amani Yahya
Yahya is billed as Yemen's first female rapper. For International Women's Day, Oxfam brought her and four other rappers together to raise awareness of the struggles of women in war.
Random Princesses
Anne Hutchinson
This uneducated rebel preacher upstaged New England magistrates so much that they founded Harvard University in part to prevent women like her from gaining power.
Grace O'Malley
Irish pirate queen who led decades of rebellions against England, met face-to-face with Elizabeth I, and got official license to…
Beloved
The ghost of a tragically-murdered young child come back to haunt her mother in post-slavery America.
Fredegund
Possibly the most cartoonishly evil woman to have ever existed, this Merovingian queen was an endless source of assassination attempts - including, on one memorable occasion, her own young daughter.
The Valiant Ladies of Potosi
Eustaquia de Souza and Ana Lezama de Urinza, two sword-and-gun-toting lesbian teen vigilantes - 17th century Bolivia's answer to Batman.
Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones)
This leader of the labor movement suffered imprisonment, defamation, and untold misery to battle against forces that most of us just take for granted.
Onorata Rodiani
When an unrequited admirer began threatening her, this early fresco painter became one of history's first warrior artists.
Arwa al-Sulayhi
The greatest ruler of Yemeni history, she defeated her numerous foes to usher the country into its golden age.
Sonya Golden Hand
Russia's greatest female thief was so slippery that even once she was re-captured after escaping from a Siberian prison, nobody was totally sure it was her.
Jane Dieulafoy
A phenomenally successful archaeologist who became a fashion icon for wearing men's clothing.