Adversaries: Louella Parsons
Louella Parsons (1881-1972) was an American gossip columnist and screenwriter, whose work boasted an audience of 20 million across many newspapers. She called herself the first-ever film reviewer and ...
28 Aug 20247min
Adversaries: Zelia Nuttall
Zelia Nuttall (1857-1933) was a Mexican-American archaeologist. She was a single mother who decoded a number of Mesoamerican texts and artifacts, including the Nuttall Codex and the Aztec Calendar Sto...
27 Aug 20246min
Adversaries: Mama G
Dr. Germon “Mama G” Miller-Bey (c.1953-present) is the “Grand Matriarch” of African martial arts, or sciences, as she prefers to call it. Rooted in her own experiences with domestic violence, she beca...
26 Aug 20244min
Adversaries: Mabel Fairbanks
Mabel Fairbanks (1915-2001) was an American figure skater and coach. A Black and Seminole woman, she was often relegated to the shadows and dedicated the latter half of her career to breaking down bar...
24 Aug 20245min
Adversaries: Fabulous Moolah
Fabulous Moolah (1923-2007) was a pioneering American pro wrestler, promoter and trainer. She held different versions of the women’s championship title almost continuously from the mid-1950s to the mi...
23 Aug 20247min
Adversaries: Mary Mcarthur v. Lillian Hellman
Lillian Hellman (1905-1984), a playwright and novelist who sued writer and critic Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) after Mary McCarthy called her "a dishonest writer" on the "Dick Cavett Show." The suit capt...
22 Aug 20247min
Adversaries: Kumander Liwayway
Remedios Guinto Gomez-Paraiso, known primarily as Kumander Liwayway, (1919 - 2014) was a beauty queen-who became a -military commander during the Huk Rebellion in the Philippines. For Further Reading...
21 Aug 20245min
Adversaries: Alice Lee
Alice Lee (1859-1939) was a statistician and one of the first women to earn a Doctorate of Science from the University of London. Her dissertation, published in 1900, helped disprove the widely held b...
20 Aug 20246min
