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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.
27 pictures of historical suffragists
Today is midterm elections in America, so let's share some historical pictures of the suffragist struggle. This one in particular is pretty great.
New children's book about a transgender princess
The new children's book by Greg McGoon is a fairy tale featuring a transgender princess.
First female Rangers in the US Army
Kristen Griest and Shaye Haver became the first women to graduate from the US Army's Ranger School.
The Highest Compliment
The best holiday present I got this year was messages like these.
Hanan Al Hroub
On March 13 Al Hroub won the second Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize for her work with children that have been exposed to violence.
Nangeli
In the 19th century, one woman's protest against an oppressive tax led to its end, as well as her own.
Margaret Hamilton
Hamilton's work prevented an abort of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Hamilton coined the term "software engineering." Hamilton was a badass.
Laura Hillenbrand
Laura Hillenbrand suffers from chronic fatigue syndrome, which has largely confined her to her house for 25 years. Despite this, she's written two of the biggest best-sellers in modern history.
China’s ‘Kingdom of Women’
This is a great introduction to the remote matrilineal society of the Mosuo people.
Saudi Arabia's 1st Female "Activist" Basketball Team Shooting For Equality
"In a country where physical activities are not allowed for women, sports aren’t even offered to school girls, a team like this is surely an act of defiance."
Random Princesses
Nancy Wake
This most-wanted WW2 spy rescued Jews and POWs, blew up Nazi trains, and used an X-rated radio rhyme to identify herself to Britain.
Velu Nachiyar
With a dead husband and a hostile foreign country on her hands, this Indian queen did the unthinkable - turned her loyal servants into some of the first suicide bombers in recorded history.
Nellie Bly
Daring journalist who infiltrated insane asylums, exposed slavery rings, and raced around the world in under 80 days.
Calafia
Black, Muslim warrior queen of a tribe of griffin-riding Amazons - and the honest-to-god namesake of California.
Constance Markievicz
Socialite turned sniper turned socialist politician - Ireland's first woman elected to office had quite a life.
Sybil Ludington
To warn against the incoming British, this teen girl staged her own midnight ride - far longer and more dangerous…
Andamana
Indigenous lawmaker who united warring tribes under a unified code of laws that she made herself.
Nzinga Mbande
When the Portuguese took the throne from her, this Angolan queen made a new one: out of her own servant. She then fled to the jungle, conquered a tribe of cannibals, and waged war on the Portuguese for so long that they gave up and left.
The Night Witches
This all-female civilian volunteer unit of the WW2 Soviet military overcame a lack of training, equipment, and faith to pull off one of the greatest underdog feats in human history and in so doing become Germany's worst nightmare.
Harriet Tubman
Escaped slave turned slave rescuer turned plantation-torching Union spymaster, she was part Moses, part Joan of Arc, part Spider-Man.