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Karen Hallion’s She Series Book Features Inspiring Women and Fantastic Art

By Lyra HaleJul 14th
Where’s My TV Show About La Maupin, the Bisexual Fencing Opera Singer?

By Jessica MasonNov 5th
Twenty-Four Classic Female Authors Are Finally Getting Published Under Their Real Names

By Princess WeekesAug 13th
8 Women in History to Feature Onscreen Instead of the Awful People We Keep Seeing

By Princess WeekesApr 17th
Preview: Noisemakers Breaks Down Hedy Lamarr’s Scientific Work With Fantastic Art by Winifred Searle

By Princess WeekesFeb 3rd
Meet the Chinese Cersei Lannister: Dowager Empress Cixi

By Jessica MasonNov 17th
The Best Depictions of the Tudor Women in Television and Film

By Princess WeekesMar 28th
Queen Tomyris of Massagetae, Slayer of Great Men & Inspiration for Red Sonja

By Princess WeekesFeb 21st
You’ll Never Believe Some of the Women The New York Times Has “Overlooked”

By Teresa JusinoMar 8th
Bygone Badass Broads Author Mackenzi Lee Talks About Giving Women Back Their Personhood and Their Place in History

By Marykate JasperMar 8th
The First African American Mail Carrier Also Fought Wolves and Bears, and Shot a Man in the Behind

By Princess WeekesFeb 14th
Drunk History Spotlights Nichelle Nichols, the “First Black Woman in Space for Fake”

By Teresa JusinoFeb 7th
The Case of Elizabeth Key Grinstead, the First Freed Black Woman, Shows the Origin of Racism in the U.S.

By Princess WeekesFeb 2nd
The Mother of African-American Journalism, Frances Harper

By Princess WeekesFeb 1st
Google Honors Literary Icon Virginia Woolf on Her 136th Birthday—Too Bad Her Home Country Doesn’t

By Teresa JusinoJan 25th
Hattie McDaniel Biopic Is in the Works—Someone Better Give Gabourey Sidibe a Call

By Princess WeekesJan 10th
Marlene Dietrich: The Bisexual, Anti-Fascist Face of Free Germany

By Princess WeekesDec 27th
Twitter Is Sharing Tales of Badass Women from History Who Should All Have Biopics By Now

By Marykate JasperDec 3rd
Science Confirms What the Vikings Repeatedly Told Us: Women Were Warriors, Too

By Marykate JasperSep 12th
Malala Yousafzai Continues to Be Taliban’s Worst Nightmare By Continuing Education at Oxford

By Teresa JusinoAug 17th