Women's History

Badass Exhibition shows that 15th Century Women led armies and performed surgery! (amp.theguardian.com)

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Badass 1848 - The story of Sophie Locke, aka John Smith. Who lived her life as a man. She work as a scissor grinder, was married twice, and had the support of her community who kept her secret. (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Badass Gerda Philipsborn 'Aapajaan' - the German woman who helped build an Indian university (www.bbc.com)

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Badass Based JKR artwork from Le Figaro newspaper (featuring Simone de Beauvoir and Colette) (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Badass Carry Nation: Reconsidering one of history’s most ridiculed women. (slate.com)

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Badass The Baker of Gettysburg (www.newspapers.com)

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Badass Northern Cheyenne tribal historians revealed that it was a female warrior , Buffalo Calf Road Woman, who killed Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer (x.com)

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Badass She flew a record-breaking US flight – but it was kept secret for years | CNN (amp.cnn.com)

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Badass Gallery of women's subcultural dress in the 1980s (visiblegirls.com)

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Badass Annie Oakley : “ I ain’t afraid to love a man I ain’t afraid to shoot him either” (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Badass Meet Tarenorerer: the Aboriginal Female Warrior Who Fought Tasmania’s Colonizers - Atlas Obscura (www.atlasobscura.com)

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Badass Josephine Baker, poor girl turned starlet who spied on Nazis during WW2 (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Badass Two women dancing and menstruating. Rock art by Indigenous Australians from the Upper Yule River, Pilbara, Western Australia. (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Badass In Trump’s bitter, years-long brawl with Roberta Kaplan (E. Jean Carroll's lawyer), he keeps losing - New York Times (www.nytimes.com)

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Badass Hessy Levinsons Taft the Jewish woman featured as the Nazis' ideal Aryan baby...

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Badass Judit Polgár is the woman who defeated Kasparov, Karpov and Spassky in chess (www.thevintagenews.com)

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Badass Photos: War correspondent Dickey Chapelle, a Shorewood native (www.jsonline.com)

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Badass Dale Spender Obituary: One of feminism’s most successful agent provocateurs (www.theguardian.com)

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Badass Elinor Otto, longest-serving ‘Rosie the Riveter’ who built airplanes until she was 95 – obituary (web.archive.org)

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Badass Princess Sophia Duleep Kaur Singh

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Badass The women of the Russian Revolution (onthewomanquestion.com)

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Badass Qiu Jin, Chinese feminist & revolutionary martyr (amazingwomeninhistory.com)

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Badass Chicago’s Dorothy Hoffner, 104, dies after setting skydiving record (www.chicagotribune.com)

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Badass One of the first female explorers! (en.wikipedia.org)

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Badass August Rebellion: New York’s Forgotten Female Prison Riot (archive.ph)

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