#kickasswomen — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #kickasswomen, aggregated by home.social.
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The Dennison sisters amassed a small fortune with their morbid “working models.”#arcades #tourism #machines #inventions #inventors #kickasswomen #womenshistory #england #pennyarcade #section-Articles
How Three Sisters Revolutionized England’s Penny Arcades -
An Aboriginal woman from northwest Tasmania, Tarenorerer became one of the war's most feared soldiers.#kickasswomen #womenshistory #warriors #warhistory #colonialism #australia #aboriginalaustralians #aboriginal #books #section-Articles
The Fierce Female Warrior Who Fought Tasmania’s Colonizers -
An Aboriginal woman from northwest Tasmania, Tarenorerer became one of the war's most feared soldiers.#kickasswomen #womenshistory #warriors #warhistory #colonialism #australia #aboriginalaustralians #aboriginal #books #section-Articles
The Fierce Female Warrior Who Fought Tasmania’s Colonizers -
An Aboriginal woman from northwest Tasmania, Tarenorerer became one of the war's most feared soldiers.#kickasswomen #womenshistory #warriors #warhistory #colonialism #australia #aboriginalaustralians #aboriginal #books #section-Articles
The Fierce Female Warrior Who Fought Tasmania’s Colonizers -
An Aboriginal woman from northwest Tasmania, Tarenorerer became one of the war's most feared soldiers.#kickasswomen #womenshistory #warriors #warhistory #colonialism #australia #aboriginalaustralians #aboriginal #books #section-Articles
The Fierce Female Warrior Who Fought Tasmania’s Colonizers -
An Aboriginal woman from northwest Tasmania, Tarenorerer became one of the war's most feared soldiers.#kickasswomen #womenshistory #warriors #warhistory #colonialism #australia #aboriginalaustralians #aboriginal #books #section-Articles
The Fierce Female Warrior Who Fought Tasmania’s Colonizers -
The daughter, sister, and aunt of emperors, Gulbadan Begum wrote of a Mughal Empire few witnessed.#history #travel #travelwriting #empire #mughals #kickasswomen #womenshistory #women #section-Articles
The Itinerant Princess Who Chronicled Akbar’s Mughal Empire -
From a first-century poet to a Roman consul’s lover.#shewasthere #kickasswomen #poetry #poet #womenshistory #ancient #empire #roman #section-Articles
The Forgotten Women Who Shaped the Roman Empire -
From bow-wielding Amazons to the trash-talking, 18th-century “Mother of Boxing.”#ancient #olympics #sports #kickasswomen #womenshistory #women #shewasthere #section-Articles
The Women Who Overcame Insults and Even Death to Become Athletes -
In High Altitude Archaeology, One Woman Isn’t Scared of Heights—Or Mummies#femalescientists #scientistsatwork #climatechange #womenofextremes #womenshistory #women #kickasswomen #incas #peru #artifacts #mummies #mountains #archaeology #section-Articles
In High Altitude Archaeology, One Woman Isn’t Scared of Heights—Or Mummies -
Uncovering the Forgotten Female Astronomers of Yerkes Observatory#einstein #libraries #research #archives #archive #kickasswomen #science #womenshistory #femalescientists #astronomy #observatories #wisconsin #chicago #universities #section-Articles
Uncovering the Forgotten Female Astronomers of Yerkes Observatory -
Lewis and Harriet Hayden House in Boston, Massachusetts
Former home of an abolitionist couple who escaped slavery and established the most active Underground Railroad stop in Boston.#undergroundrailroad #womenshistory #kickasswomen #blackhistory #slavery #abolitionists #section-Atlas
Lewis and Harriet Hayden House -
Girl Puzzle Monument in New York, New York
An art installation commemorates journalist Nellie Bly's undercover reporting inside a New York insane asylum.
Girl Puzzle Monument -
Girl Puzzle Monument in New York, New York
An art installation commemorates journalist Nellie Bly's undercover reporting inside a New York insane asylum.
Girl Puzzle Monument -
Girl Puzzle Monument in New York, New York
An art installation commemorates journalist Nellie Bly's undercover reporting inside a New York insane asylum.
Girl Puzzle Monument -
Girl Puzzle Monument in New York, New York
An art installation commemorates journalist Nellie Bly's undercover reporting inside a New York insane asylum.
Girl Puzzle Monument -
Girl Puzzle Monument in New York, New York
An art installation commemorates journalist Nellie Bly's undercover reporting inside a New York insane asylum.
Girl Puzzle Monument -
Botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter braved rapids and steep cliffs to catalog numerous plant species.
The Historic Grand Canyon Adventure Two Women Had For Science -
The world’s first two-time Nobel Laureate was a nerd’s nerd who broke the law for knowledge.
Marie Curie As You’ve Never Met Her Before -
The “Huk Amazons” were military commanders, leaders, soldiers, spies, and more.
Commander Liwayway and Other Filipino Women Who Fought During World War II -
Their inspiring acts of resistance were ignored or erased for centuries—until now.
The Untold Stories of the Women Who Led Slave Revolts -
She reappeared in World War II's Pacific theater where, for five weeks in 1943, she inspired troops and faced down air raids.
That Time Eleanor Roosevelt Disappeared for 10 Days -
From Italy’s fortress-seizing countess to Angola’s battle-hardened Queen Njinga, these women didn’t back down from a fight.
Meet Caterina Sforza and Other Warrior Queens History Forgot -
The “she generalissimo” nearly won the English Civil War for her husband, King Charles I.
The Untold Story of Henrietta Maria, England’s Warrior Queen