Before I start with Policarpa’s life, I just want to say that this will be my last Badass Women post…
Jeanne d’Albret, also known as Jeanne III, was Queen of the Kingdom of Navarre during the mid to late 1500s…
Visitación Padilla was a Honduran teacher and civil rights activist who campaigned for the rights of women in Honduras and…
Melanie Klein was an Austrian-British psychoanalyst and author recognized as one of the founders of object relations theory, and also…
Seventy-five years before Edward Jenner ‘invented’ the smallpox vaccine, Mary Wortley Montagu successfully inoculated her two children against smallpox using…
Berta Cáceres was a Lenca indigenous woman from Honduras who fought her entire life in the defense of the territory…
Oodgeroo Noonuccal, also called Kath Walker and born Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska, was an Australian Aboriginal poet, writer, and activist…
A Canadian friend (shout out to Veronica!) first told me about Olivia Poole, who was one of the first Indigenous…
Buchi Emecheta was an award-winning British Nigerian author who documented her experiences as a Black woman, single mother, and Nigerian…
Viola Desmond was a civil rights activist and businesswoman from Nova Scotia, Canada. I first discovered her through the Encyclopedia…