July 27, 2018 in Modern Worthies Inge Ginsberg Death Metal Grandma As a Holocaust survivor, her poetry was too dark for some, but it was perfect for death metal.
July 26, 2018 in Modern Worthies Mary Ellis One of the Last Female WW2 Pilots At age 101, this woman was one of the last surviving female pilots from WW2, and older than the Royal Air Force by one year - she died today.
July 23, 2018 in Modern Worthies DeDe Phillips Grandmother Who Strangled Rabid Bobcat in Self Defense She was attacked while putting up a “Women who behave rarely make history” bumper sticker on her truck. No, seriously.
June 22, 2018 in Modern Worthies Mary Ann Shadd Cary The first black female publisher in North America She was the first black woman in North America to edit and publish a newspaper, one of the first black female lawyers in the United States and an advocate for granting women the right to vote.
June 7, 2018 in Modern Worthies Amelia Bloomer America's First Women-Aimed News Publisher The publisher of America's first newspaper by and for women - and someone sadly overshadowed by her more-famous contemporaries.
June 4, 2018 in Modern Worthies Ana Brnabić Serbia's first Lesbian Prime Minister For a nation whose Pride events are often a target for violent bigots, the 2017 election of a lesbian Prime Minister is an important step - but there’s a long way to go.
May 31, 2018 in Modern Worthies Esther Morris America's First Female Justice of the Peace Fifty years before women got the federal right to vote, this legal agent became “the terror of all rogues.”
May 8, 2018 in Modern Worthies Gertrude Jeannette New York's First Female Cabbie New York's first licensed female cabbie didn't let racism, sexism, or a speech impediment slow her down.
March 28, 2018 in Modern Worthies Beate Klarsfeld Professional Nazi Hunter Together with her husband Serge, this woman has spent her life tracking down war criminals and bringing them to justice.
March 26, 2018 in Modern Worthies Millie Veasey One of the Last of the All-Black, All-Woman WW2 Unit Part of a WW2 unit that untangled a logistics nightmare, she lived to a hundred and helped run a chapter of the NAACP.