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Sold into sexual slavery to Hernan Cortes, this maligned woman became his interpreter, and it was with her words that…
Nafanua
When an oppressive regime threatened her home, this Samoan war goddess took matters into her own hands.
Banu Goshasp
This superhero of early Iranian mythology starred in her own stories, and plenty of them.
Ani Pachen
When China invaded her native land, this would-be monk put down her pacifist dreams and took up arms.
Mahendradatta
This Indonesian queen ruled wisely and justly in life, and was deified as the embodiment of all evil after her death. The story of why gets a bit complicated.
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
Through years of unrelenting protest, this Nigerian teacher felled a king, won women the right to vote, and taught all of Africa how to protest.
Anne Farquharson-Mackintosh
When the true king of the Scots came to reclaim the throne, this spirited woman went up against her husband to back her chosen sovereign.
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?
Annie Jump Cannon
This astronomer threw off all the social conventions of her day to pursue her one true calling: the stars.
Trinidad Tecson
Turned into a revolutionary in middle age, this mother became one of the Philippines most heralded women.