It is incredible to me that until quite recently, I did not know who Rosetta Tharpe was, and it is…
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Since I recently finished watching the Netflix series Anne with an E, I figured I would write a double feature…
I first heard of Aphra Behn on The Guilty Feminist podcast (if you haven’t listened yet, you should definitely check…
Elizabeth Packard is known today as an advocate for the rights of women and a mental health and legal reformer,…
If you are like me, then her name doesn’t even ring a bell. It didn’t for me at first either.…
I discovered Alma Karlin when I traveled to Slovenia last May, and my friend and I went to the small…
In my travels around Slovenia, I kept seeing this name over and over again: Barbara of Celje, or Barbara of…
A full 50 years before Helen Keller was transformed from an unruly deaf-blind child who understood nothing, to a young…
This post is doubling as both Badass Women and What I’ve Been Reading Lately, as I just finished a biography…