I first heard about Nehanda Charwe Nyakasikana on the Encyclopedia Womannica podcast (highly recommend!) that is documenting the history of…
Julia Brace was the first deaf-blind person in the U.S. to receive an education. If this rings a bell, it’s…
Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff I spent the first half of this book wondering why it was so devastatingly average…
Fatima al-Fihri is known today as the founder of the world’s oldest university, but much of her life remains a…
Year of Yes, Shonda Rhimes This behind-the-scenes peek into the life of the now-famous writer behind the likes of Grey’s…
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.…
Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng Ng’s second novel is just as much of a page-turner as her first one was.…
It is incredible to me that until quite recently, I did not know who Rosetta Tharpe was, and it is…