Although I am not a fan of International Women’s Day or Women’s History Month (I prefer to focus every day…
Not much is known or can be corroborated about Giulia Tofana, but she is thought to have been born in…
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…
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…
Anne Lister is best known as the ‘first modern lesbian’ and was a British diarist and landowner in the first…
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…
Phyllis Wheatley (also spelled Phillis) has been the recent subject of two podcasts that I listen to, including the History…