Our Favorites: Sappho
Sappho (c. 615 BC) was an ancient Greek poet and an architect of the very words we use to talk about queer identity today.For the past six years, we’ve been telling the stories of women you may or may...
9 Loka 20256min
Our Favorites: Regina Jonas
Regina Jonas (1902-1944) asked a short, but important question: Can women serve as rabbis? She dedicated her life to proving that the answer to that question was 'Yes.'For the past six years, we’ve be...
8 Loka 20256min
Our Favorites: Juana Maria
Juana Maria (unknown-1853), also known as the lost woman of San Nicolas island, lived a solitary and fabled life as one of the last members of the Nicoleño tribe.For the past six years, we’ve been tel...
7 Loka 20256min
Our Favorites: Gwen Verdon
Gwen Verdon (1925-2000) was a true Broadway icon. Her status as a triple threat dancer, actor and singer earned her four Tony awards during her career. For the past six years, we’ve been telling the s...
6 Loka 20257min
Our Favorites: The Heroines of Jiangyong
The Heroines of Jiangyong were women in rural China who made a secret language – Nüshu – to communicate with each other. Nüshu translates directly to “women’s writing” and is a series of phonetic scri...
3 Loka 20255min
Our Favorites: Assata Shakur
Assata Shakur (1947-present) was a member of the Black Liberation Army who was imprisoned and convicted of murdering a police officer. She escaped prison in 1979, and has lived in exile in Cuba ever s...
2 Loka 20258min
Our Favorites: Daphne du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989) was an English novelist and playwright whose gothic romance works have been described as “moody and resonant." Many of her novels and short stories have been adapted into...
1 Loka 20255min
Women of the Wheel: DJ Spinderella
Deidre Muriel Roper (b. 1970), better known as DJ Spinderella or simply “Spinderella,”) is an American DJ, rapper and producer. She is best known as the third member of Salt-N-Pepa, one of the first a...
30 Syys 20255min
