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I've had some pretty wild depression the past couple years. I'm finally starting to work through it - with art.
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Betty Pack
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Nog Prize #1
In which I start the tradition of heralding people smarter than I am -- this time for catching something about Fredegund's entry!
Annie Jump Cannon
This astronomer threw off all the social conventions of her day to pursue her one true calling: the stars.
5 TED-Ed lessons about awesome women
The TED-Ed blog features five videos about awesome women in history.
More women than men found buried at Stonehenge
A recent excavation of corpses at Stonehenge found more women than men, suggesting the civilizations who buried them might have had more women in positions of power than supposed.
South Vietnam's Forgotten 'Daredevil Girls'
Breaking social taboos, women helped out in the Vietnam War - but were forgotten afterwards.
Nog Prize #2
In which I am corrected as to Mongolian wrestling!
Ask Jason: Have you ever wrote about women with disability?
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Random Princesses
Mai Bhago
This Sikh warrior saint led 40 deserters back into battle and in so doing, possibly saved her entire religion from extinction.
Sayyida al-Hurra
Indomitable pirate queen who ran Morocco and ruined Portuguese trade.
Ranavalona I
This brutal sovereign's reign saw her outlaw clapping, pioneer death by feet-kissing, and design giant weaponized scissors - but are we only getting one side of the story...?
Osh-Tisch
The last Crow nation baté (Two Spirit mystic) in history, she earned her name -- which means "Finds Them and Kills Them" -- by tirelessly fighting to preserve her way of life.
Pope Joan
This pope was largely assumed to be male until she gave birth in the midst of a procession - and largely assumed to be factual until the 13th century.
Pasiphaë
This mythical queen gave birth to the minotaur and cursed her unfaithful husband with the world's weirdest magic STD -- but was her whole story just a smear campaign?
Andamana
Indigenous lawmaker who united warring tribes under a unified code of laws that she made herself.
Onake Obavva
When enemies invaded her town while her husband was on lunch break, she grabbed a nearby pestle and saved the day by achieving the high score in soldier whack-a-mole.
Ilona Zrinyi
When her rebel husband was imprisoned, she continued the movement - by holding a castle under siege for three long, lonely years.
La Llorona
Mexico's infamous "weeping ghost" has many incarnations: a jilted widow, a slave princess, a milk addict, a coffee bag, and a pair of panties.