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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 'Avon ladies' of Pakistan selling contraception door to door
Workers for the Marginalised Area Reproductive Health Viable Initiative (Marvi) travel door-to-door around Pakistan, selling and teaching about contraception.
Explaining Cultural Appropriation
An erudite pair of 16-year-olds made a history report well worth watching.
Lumchuan
While browsing a book of woman warriors, I came across an entry that stopped me cold. You have to read this.
Betty Reid Soskin
America's most seasoned ranger, at 93, advocates fiercely for young women of color everywhere.
RP on Bustle!
The RP book got covered by Bustle!
How Two 18th-Century Lady Pirates Became BFFs on the High Seas
The history of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, the most famous female pirate duo (and, many suspect, couple) of all.
Women's professions... of the future! (as imagined in 1902)
In 1902, a French artist produced a collection of trading cards entitled "Women of the Future." No-one tell him that women had already been doing most (if not all) of these things before then.
Portraits of the Black Mambas
Photographer Julia Gunther took pictures of the anti-poaching squad, the Black Mambas, as part of her "Proud Women of Africa" photography project.
Phoolan Devi
This "untouchable" woman ended decades of abuse by starting a bandit gang and avenging the lower castes. After some time in prison, she got out, ran for parliament, and won.
#Distractinglysexy scientists take to Twitter
A Nobel Prize winner said he wants to keep women out of labs with men because they fall in love. Women responded with photos of them doing their jobs to show how distracting women in science are.
Random Princesses
Mary Bowser
Brilliant undercover spy who posed as a slave to spy on - and attempt to burn down - the Confederate…
Jezebel
Roundly-despised and unfairly-maligned seductress of the bible who ran afoul of the wrong priests.
Amaridevi
To ensnare the scheming ministers who were ruining her life, this princess used guile, cunning, and a sophisticated knowledge of civil engineering.
Sayyida al-Hurra
Indomitable pirate queen who ran Morocco and ruined Portuguese trade.
Sacajawea
One of the most famous women in American history, this hyper-capable Shoshone woman walked across America with a baby strapped to her back, in order to map it.
Micaela Almonester
After decades of gaslighting and emotional abuse at the hands of her in-laws, this iron-willed woman survived being shot four times point blank, won a separation from her husband, and became one of the most respected business icons in New Orleans.
Mercadera
When this Spanish merchant went out to pick cabbages, she stumbled upon an unusual kind of pest: a French knight.
Mary Lacy
This self-described "undutiful daughter" posed as a man to become the world's first female shipwright.
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.
Marsha P. Johnson
This cheery godmother of trans civil rights masked a dark past of abuse.