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Julia Brace was the first deaf-blind person in the U.S. to receive an education. If this rings a bell, it’s…
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All I can think about is when I will be able to hop on a flight again to a different…
This month’s Badass Women was a straight-up journalism god who is often referred to as the “First Lady of the…
Taught in British curriculum for at least the last decade, Mary Seacole has remained more or less unknown on the…
Known as China’s first feminist, and celebrated as China’s ‘Joan of Arc’, Qiu Jin was stunningly brilliant in every regard.…
Anne Lister is best known as the ‘first modern lesbian’ and was a British diarist and landowner in the first…
Shirley Chisholm was the first black woman elected to the U.S. Congress and the first woman and first African American…